ridingtheox

inspired by Sifu's eastover  class  

I completed a  40 minute long form (volume 4)    an increase of  about 20 percent in time of  execution for the long form  which i continue to do daily ..   now almost 5 years it has been the central qi gong practice   earlier this year i completed a 108 day gong  of twice a day  long form   keep on  practicing  FPCH   

as I approach 77 yrs my energy remains far above my age cohort .. 

hoa binh

tat ca sinh vien khach!

On 8/4/2017 at 3:03 AM, zen-bear said:

 

thr above was an erroneous entry which i could not figure out how to delete

On 8/14/2017 at 1:35 AM, Songshou said:

I'll practice everything I know each day this coming week, while I watch the 2 intermediate standing meditations and get prepared to learn them and add them to my practice.  Then in several weeks, on to the long form meditation!  

don't  be  in such a hurry ...  learn to listen to each exercise ... in a year or so  perhaps ...  FP is about the long haul  NOT the short term  patience and persistence in practice   3 p's   

On 7/7/2017 at 10:32 AM, taoguy said:

I have just learnt the Long Form FP and I can feel a very refreshing effect, wow. May I know if I need to learn the other previous meditations for a few months before I do the Long Form? I realized that I learnt the Long Form FP pretty quickly, just that I might have a few slight postural differences, which I'm slowly picking out and correcting by rewatching the videos repeatedly.

I believe I am the person who is reported to have started with the long form.  I had done TJQ 30+ years,  taught some and did BDJ .   The first times I did the Long Form I felt amazing energy.  I completed a 108 day gong last year using the Long Form daily.   I continue to feel deeper spiritual and energetic connection to it.   I have added most of the other available forms,  though i do not do the seated ones at the current time.   The  five  short standing meditations are my current concentration,  I have completed more than 90 days of an intended 108 day gong using them.

 Practice is the gate to health and spiritual life ..  even  immortality which i define as the awareness of this present moment.

Peace  hoa binh

ridingtheox

comment to  immortality.   the ordinary assumption in the west is that of avoiding death or being 'raised'  from death.

i long ago eschewed the ideas of  somehow escaping biological truth.   My current take on immortality is the awareness of being present to this perfect moment,  the now.   FPCH  meditation  is  being present and as soon as one is actually present then  she/he is immortal.  Gradually with practice flying phoenix daily  the door to immortality seems to be opening,  still just a crack in the wall but  present now;  is.   If we go through life never experiencing this precious moment now,  then we are simply mortal.  Which is not that bad now is it?  If we seek deeply the presence of divine moment and rest in it.  Then  we have tasted immortality.   There is no magic  except this magic moment.  (jeez  I wish I could remember who sang that LOL)

Hoa binh

our family cat passed yesterday  ,  i cried  deeply   Requiescat in pace  Minnie Pearl  rest in peace our dear miss Pearl

On 5/19/2017 at 11:41 AM, Seatle185 said:

 

You can click on the "filters" button and click yes on "content i have posted in" 

what filters button?  nothing labeled filters  i searched for filters  what do you mean?

completed a round of 5 standing short form:

starting w

4  dragon emerges   6:40

3  raise earth             7:10

2 Phx dragon play      4:50

1 spread wing             5:00

& 5 Prep 8 sect           8:40

these continue to grow more and more intense!   Try them you'll be pleasantly surprized as I have been I hope!

and I posted to the thread in appreciation fo Sifu Dunn's recent post re breath ... where did that post go???

whoa   I  am having a terrible time navigating this new site format ...

how do i get to this forum?   search no longer brings it right up ...

i have managed to stumble into it  twice,  but still not certain what the direct route might be

HELP

WTF??

i had terrible time logging in ...  now I can not find the topic thru the search fn?   

caught me totally off guard ...

HELP

and   it is worth reading this thread even when  i am not in total sync  with all I do read 

great to be aware of all the levels of familiarity working with newcomers and those having problems and questions!

Detrus wrote,

Man the only criticism I have for the DVDs is that they should have been mirrored. I find it so hard to move left when the character on the screen is moving right. 

I see a lot of people saying volume 4 is good but I tried learning it and it seems so hard. I don't think I'l ever be able to do it properly. 

it 

use a large mirror ...   I  learned  a short Chen style Tjq  years ago .  It takes a little patience and even a small mirror on the wall say the size of your computer screen can work ... I also found it helped with learning the long form ... 

good luck .   The long form is extraordiarily powerful healing,  opening,  energizing  it is well worth the effort to learn by whatever means available

 peace  hoa binh

today   so  far

6 am  long form flying phoenix   not timed

7:30  yang tjq long form  class  1 hour 15 min (form 25 min)

3:15  five standing short forms

done in sequence 4, 1, 3, 5, and 2.  times  

dragon emerges   7:35

white crane           5:50

lift earth                7:45

8 sections             9:05

Phoenix &dragon  6:20

total  36:30  

INTENSE   

1) sort of off topic ... at the end of May  i hope to attend the local Quaker non violence workshop which relates to prisons and humane treatment 

2  my practice of 5 short stand meds   keeps getting longer and longer today 35 min (5.5,6.5,7.5,7.5 and 8.5)  i did it while listening to Tibetan Bells ...  

My appreciation of these 5 form grows daily

thanks for the this thread too!!

i have played with the 5 standing short forms for a few years ... visiting them  and then  letting them slip away, to do things like the 108 gong,  revitalize the 24 TCC  and add some variations to eight pieces of brocade.

This time  (post completion of the long form 108 day practice)  they just clicked.   I am enjoying doing them either each alone or as a group  2 to 5 as time permits. I also continue to use the videos  to reinforce the practices of each form.

The fifth form stands out  both in length and in the depth of penetration of qi.    So that i sometimes begin to vibrate noticeably near the end of the form that vibration quiets but persists on a deep level after completion.  I have had that happen with the long form also.

All in all it has been a very slow to come around,  but wonderful experience so far.  

I do wonder if there is any connection between various 5 element qi gong and these,  but do not get the connection to water, wood, fire, metal and earth energies related to particular short standing forms?

one month post 108 day gong of  the long form ...  still feeling new energy flows when i now practice it,  the long form.

have now worked on  the five standing short forms  strangely subtitled 90-second power meditations.   They are bringing up more energy awareness ...  

the demos generally run from 3 to 5 minutes in length  today i imitated the demo  timed it and then did the form at the speed of shifting sand ...  slow that is:

#1   4:30:  #2  4:25;  #3 6:00 #4  5:40  and  #5  8:10  total practice time 48:00  

imitating the demo guaranteed that i did all the breath control and  movements correctly  that's  just under 30 min work out.

I am considering a shorter period of practice/gong with these 5 gems.

peace to all beings

some patience in the beginning may be called for.   I feel confident that the 'practice'  is very quickly effective and beneficial and NOT likely to fail to 'agree' with your present emotional situation.  I urge you not to entertain speculative thoughts in that vein,  rather  let go of them .   

These FP exercises are extremely valuable IF you take effort to practice them at a regular time  1 oer2x daily.

First principles of qi gong are applicable,  breathe calmly and softy in the dan tien,  pay attention to your body / stance 

alignment,  be sensitive to rooting of your feet and to the upward pull on the crown of your head (bai hui).  Shoulders must be relaxed down and spine comfortably straight.   

Good luck  be  persistent

Peace   hoa binh

I have had similar  figure 8  swaying in seated and standing   FP postures  ...  nice  feeling  touching some inner harmonic 

yesterday was day 97 ...  I had an especially intense evening practice.   I followed  sifu's youtube played at 0.5 speed  in mirrored form.   Followed by meditating to ' thich nhat hanh's  great bell chant.

Then I did a standard long form 28 minutes in duration.  the last 1/3  i broke into a complete body sweat,  though light in character (years ago i had some extraordinary full body nei gong experience where I was soaking wet).  At the end of the form standing breathing i had major pulsing and shaking for  several  moments  (  about 5 complete breath duration ).

I am now 10 days from completion ....  wish me luck in finishing!!

Peace to all beings

I am in fact a Quaker  with Universalist orientation.   I have had many 'centered' Meeting for Worship experiences over 45 years none of those experiences were in 'lotus' position.  I meditate regularly following Thich Nhat Hanh adn Pema Chodron.   I have also had deep  'openings'  in these meditations all were in seated  chairs.   On two occasions I participated in native american sweat lodge which  led to  deep  connection.  

So my experience at 76 is that the spirit is available in many spiritual disciplines and not limited by form.   

ran into a real blockage ... serious head cold but managed to keep my 108 day  going  by 'main force' 

head colds have always been a problem when i get them ...  grandkids are carriers  LOL

day  81  3^4th power  108 is starting to feel  like a real  goal !   I am away from home so not teaching TCC for a week. A friend suggested I try the tai ji qi gong 18  so I have begun including it on a trial basis.   So far  it  gives a warm pulsing feeling of qi ... if i do it slowly.   I continue to practice some zhan zhuang and ba duan jin  (Li YuanFei) also done at half speed sometimes.

Also am having fun doing mirror image along with youtube versions of long form,  followed by the long form itself  very slowly.   I have not gone over the half hour mark,  but brushing up against it several times lately. 

Has anyone done the Mingtong Gu  100  day gong?

https://www.you.tube.com/watch?v=Oj0ewBvr6zM

)note i put a period in you.tube so this would not open here)

Practice mindfully    it will pay off if my experience is evidence.

Peace

now  day  75  ...  the last couple of days  I have been viewing Sifu Dunn on youtube and following him (mirror image).  Last night i ran the 7 min, ocean and snow covered mtn at 0.5 speed  which of course took 15 min.  

then I did the form  (mirror style)  25 min  ... an important observation is that the form just keeps revealing new energy paths.  Another is that some issues still remain ...  nothing I do can make my inner ear, old-age balance issue go completely away.   I have to open my eyes  slightly in the final 'rising up to standing on one leg'  posture.  (I have practiced this portion by itself many times ... open eyed and closed eyed  )  Closed eye is just too unstable, though I can do some semblance of it most of the time.  Open eye is smooth balanced and I easily follow Sifu in the 'half speed slow version of the video.

I am starting to think  what I will do when I reach completion

Maybe the disk 6  will be ready?    LOL

i would be happy to review and critique it ... do you have an advance edition?   Sifu    heh heh

Peace to all  beings

I read Wing's  Tao de Ching early  this morning,  #53,   had not been visiting TdC for a while ...  stay on the path don't get distracted by by ways     It had a resonance for me regarding our cultural divide.  

Today is  63  on my path to 108  Long form FP meditation.   An emerging break through is the dropping away of monkey mind and feeling of  centered breath.   There is also an increasing sense of rootedness and flow of qi in both long and short wave vibrations.  quite often I feel as if I have an 'electric bracelet' on my right wrist.  and continuing opening of bai hui.  

at this stage I am feeling very much like this IS  my current path ... don't get distracted!

Happy New Year all beings

Hoa Binh

yes  the delay,  lag time for doing these sleep/wake exercises is  a noteable / awareness issue to be present .

thanks for the reminder  ...

day  53   doing some  back to back  mirror  normal  form  also  performing mirror while watching Sifu Dunn youtube videos of the long form.  

getting good physical pheed back  (heh heh)

found this on youtube  has what I think is thoughtful 'western' science interpretation of broad qi gong exercise value which i interpret by comparison to western work out ...  hmm  not well expressed but take a look at the link anyhow: