kalidastony

I get a very interesting experience with the standing meditations, especially if I don't concentrate on anything in particular. My reaction, oddly enough is amusement. It's been occurring very infrequently in the past but now makes it's presence more obvious. The minute I try to focus on it, it goes away. Between my eyes (when they are open), I see a scintillating blue light which seems to be about the size of a grain of rice. I don't go looking for it, it just appears and seems very playfull. Has anyone else ever experienced this?

Kalidastony - nice post regarding your results from Flying Phoenix!

 

Glad to hear FP has improved your health and reduced your stress levels. Many of us have had similar experience. The healing aspects of FP are really outstanding. BTW - being an old guy is a good thing (especially considering the alternative). ;-)

 

This is a long running thread no doubt, but I might suggest you go through it at your leisure because there is some gold to be found hidden in these 80 pages.

 

I'm curious....which of the FP meditations are you doing?

 

Good practicing!

 

Fu dog

Thanks for the response. Sorry about a couple of typos. Well, what I did (having to play catch up) was to do Terry's intensive process which is on an insert he mails with his DVD's. That is, do one standing form (Vol 1) and one sitting form (Vol 2) for two weeks ( I do this in the morning at 5am and evening at 7pm each day). Once the first two weeks are done, then start 2 standing forms and 2 sitting forms until all the weeks have gone by where you are doing all Vol 1 and Vol 2 forms. Means getting up earlier as each set of 2 weeks gets completed as I head out to work at a specific time each day. The hardest day of the week is Saturday as its my crash and burn day and takes a lot of willpower to get out of bed and do the right thing !!. I don't expect miracles because a lifetime of bad habits takes some fixing but the results are occurring that are very noticeable. For one, stressing out (am in one of the three professions starting with airline pilots that get this), had caused me to reach for the smokes. Well, there is no longer any desire to pollute my lungs. Its not a conscious effort to stop the habit, it just happens with FPCK !. Diet is also good to change particularly if your friendly GP says your blood pressure is high and need to work on it. All these things sum up to generating a high motivation to just do the forms and not worry to much about the theory. Old East Indian saying " He who has TASTED a grain of mustard seed is better than one who has SEEN a whole elephant load of it". Considering that I live in a Southern State and can't get over to the West Coast to attend live tuition, these DVD's are real gems and worth every penny. My problem is that friends keep nicking them and not returning them so I have to order more, which is great for Terry as it's well deserved

I may be just lazy or can't go through 80 odd pages of posts on here. But am feeling good about Sifu Terry's reply about doing at least 15 minutes of the basics of FP for starters. So being and old guy (coming up to 69), I have some observations about trying different styles and how the truism of "your body knows what's right for it" is true. I have been cycling through 3 Qigong sources over the last 2 years or so. Starting one, stopping, then another. Like Damo Qigong (all seated forms), Guigen Qigong, and finally Terry's FPCK. Guess what Terry's does the trick. Here is a list of phyiscal things I have had/ still have wrong with me. Mostly age related I guess.

(1) Still shoulders and sort base of neck, from an injury years ago. (2) Lack of sleep due to stress. (3) Crummy or stressed out feeling after doing forms, even 'panic' attacks. No longer and now a FPCK devotee !! All anectdotal stuff is gone. It works and I can do my 40 hour a week stressful job and remain as cool as a cucumber. Knees shake, arms ache but nothing ventured nothing gained.

Thanks Terry.

Hello Dan,

 

Yes, it is perfectly alright to start with the Basic Seated Flying Phoenix Meditations. They are all very pleasant to do and energize the body in a deeply tangible and profound way. Almost everyone who works a job has time constraints for Qigong practice. Fortunately, FP Qigong is a system where even a little bit of practice--as less as 15 minutes a day, done everyday--will after a certain time feel like the internal energy is cultivating/accumulating at a geometric rate.

 

I just had the pleasure of meeting Fu_Dog (who started this discussion thread back in late 2009) in person here in L.A. giving him two days of private lessons. He is a very busy consultant who sometimes works 13 hours per day, and he squeezes in FP Qigong practice whenever he can. And he favors the seated FP "Monk Serves Wine" meditations, which is fine. However, to derive the full benefit of the FP Qigong system, one must at some point become thoroughly adept with the Standing FP exercises as well because they are more powerful than the seated FP Meditations, as I had mentioned very early on in this thread.

 

Again, daily FP Qigong practice for short periods of time can up to a very beneficial cultivation.

 

Hope this helps. Enjoy the seated work.

 

Sifu Terry

Just to go back to the original topic for a moment, I just came across a site listing this DVD:

 

Da Yan Qigong DVD -- Wild Goose Qigong

 

The part of this that seemed important to me was:

 

"Yang Mei Jun, who is the first woman introducing the set of forms and the generation descendant of such school of qigong, gives lectures in the program regarding the key points for every phases in the 128-posture routine forms. Her disciple showcases every postures in a detailed way (reviewed often from front or back)."

 

They have some other stuff that sounds interesting:

 

1.DaMo Qigong Home Study Course

2.I-Chi Qigong DVD, online store, medical qigong

3.Da Yan Qigong DVD -- Wild Goose Qigong

4.DaMo Qigong Series: Conquer Cancer By Qigong Practice DVD

5.Nei Jing Tu, Xiu Zhen Tu and Firing-Process Chart

6.Chinese Kungfu Video CD and DVD

7.Kungfu Video Series: Eagle Claw Boxing VCD

8.Chinese Kungfu Video Series: Tai Zhu Long Fist Boxing VCD

9.Chinese Kungfu Video Series: Southern-Style Sparring VCD

10.Chinese Kungfu Video Series: Ba Gua Chang Weapon VCD

11.Chinese Kungfu Video Series: Piercing Foot and Turning Boxing 4VCD

12.Chinese Kungfu Video Series: Wu-Style TaiChi Chuan

13.Chinese Kungfu Video Series: Ba Gua Chang 3VCD

14.Revealing the Tao Te Ching--by Xuezhi Hu

 

Has anyone here ever ordered or viewed any of their materials, and are they worthwhile? Thanks in advance.

hmm. no disrespect intended. How do you know they are realized beings? That's assuming an awful lot. The mark of a guru being realized is that you check out his/her students. A gurus purpose is to teach and transmit to you something that helps to get where you have to be. I don't see that at all, no matter how many years of book learning and chanting you do. Its a case of recognition i suppose and there are very few that have 'IT' words and deep erudition just fill the mind with a whole lot of complicated junk and by golly the Tibetan Buddhists are masters at it and as an afterthought. no one i know has come back re-incarnated and said hi. So so really takes suspension of common sense to believe that too

The Dahli Lama and realized beings, saints etc cannot choose who will be liberated.

it is a matter of whether you are ripe to receive.

Just being in their presence, listening to them, reading what they have to say, living in the manner in which they suggest will help, but if it is not your destiny it won't happen in this lifetime. So living longer gives you more time to work on yourself , to prepare yourself for the next time around.

Are taoist practices any stranger than those of Christianity, Moselms, Judiasm, Buddhism, Hinduism (sorry if i left anyone out LOL) or any other religion if they are seen with an open mind.

BTW the Dali Lama is a Buddhist

thanks for a quick comeback. strange as it may seem, my personal experiences are pretty common. Read Harding's material on "having no head". He got lucky in getting sudden realization which you don't get by doing Bagua. or sucking up to a whole lot of snake oil salesmen who will sell you instant nirvana enter credit card please. There are an awful lot out there. Chi Kung and Taoism is the current flavor, that has displaced Yoga. Interesting really since most of the real masters got wiped out by Mao and his Red Guards. But if you are Chinese you have the be the real thing Haha

Yep. Our personal experiences are just that: Personal Experiences.

Actually its all about signposts on the way. BTW I am not going to diss anyone but i will simply tell my story. This was prevoked by reading a post that wasn't very complimetary about Lama Surya Das because he had exposure to Kashmir Shaivism (Hindu) and Tibetan Buddhism (Buddhism). He is way up in my estimation as a seeker. Mine starts with being in an orphanage at 4 years of age and sitting watching the dandelion clocks putting out parachutes in an afternoon breeze and being filled with wonder. or lying in a field of waving grass and red poppies on the South Coast and watching a skylark on the breeze singing its heart out. or meeting Fr. Killian Lynch or the Order of Carmelites who was a saint by any definition which such humility. Or going to an open session at the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain where the psycic walked up to me and said she could see a person in orange robes standing behind me smiling and she was kind of put out. The going to a session held in a flat near Hyde park and seeing all these people chanting to a picture of Swami Muktananda and i wanted to high tail it out of there. Then operating a camera when Swami Venkatesananada visited London and I was spaced out so much I couldnt focus. All milestones. Then... kashmir shaivism talks about a blue pearl which is the real you and is the vehicle of the soul for migration to wherever when you take your leave from this coil. I had to rush home to Wales from Toronto a while back was my brother was dying. Just made it in time with 12 hours to spare because I was big brother. When it was time to go, i saw this amazing blue pearl come from him, cycle around the room as if looking for a direction, then leave. Another milestone. Well that's it for now. there are a lot of other milestone I have come across, but like most people caught up in consumerism I am only just getting it. No labels please because they are meaningless and the last thing i want to happen is someone to convince me that this being or creed is the way to get it. Not. That you cannot describe cannot be figured out by the mind, and you cant get it from amazon.com LOL

The Dahli Lama and realized beings, saints etc cannot choose who will be liberated.

it is a matter of whether you are ripe to receive.

Just being in their presence, listening to them, reading what they have to say, living in the manner in which they suggest will help, but if it is not your destiny it won't happen in this lifetime. So living longer gives you more time to work on yourself , to prepare yourself for the next time around.

Are taoist practices any stranger than those of Christianity, Moselms, Judiasm, Buddhism, Hinduism (sorry if i left anyone out LOL) or any other religion if they are seen with an open mind.

BTW the Dali Lama is a Buddhist

why do taoists want to prolong life with all the wierd practises they carry out?. why cant the dalai lama give you liberation when he says that he has nothing to give you? am not into marketing dvds or books, just see a lot of lost people on the site and maybe if i share some of the things i hvave been through it might just help.