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ON ORIENTAL ENLIGHTENMENTOLOGY & THE WAY
OF ROOT-BACK
Sun Zexian
Qigong Teaching and Research Section , Liaoning College of Traditional Chinese
Medicine
, Shenyang
, China
A new theory and technique of Chinese qigong will be discussed in this paper, which
is a
result of the study of Taoist and Buddhist qigong in terms of psychology.
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It
is understandable that a tree has
its root, but
it
is not understandable that a person
has his "root" either. Every person has his own life experience. Each of the experience can bej
come
a mass of information , called "Root Complex"
, laying in the body. A person's root
is
mad^ up of such uncountable Root Complexes. The concept of Root Complex
is much widerj
and jfeeper than that of Sigmund Freud's "Complex" for the Root Complexes of a person are
not Only from individual
, but also from his parents, from his ancestor , even from every step
of human evolution. The evidence can be found in qigong practice.
Among so many Root Complexes, a lot of them are not in order. For this reason people!
usually cannot fully develop his own personality. A special way of putting Root Complexes inj
order was found thousands years ago by Chinese ancestors to help people perfect himself.
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That is Chinese qigong.
Qigong
is complying with a kind of human instinct—Back to Root which means return-
ing to the source of life and to the source of universe. The Back to Root consciousness exists:
commonly and potentially in human beings. Human's Back to Root consciousness needs an
expression, which
is the process of putting the Root in order. The primitive way of the ex-
pression of human' s Back to Root consciousness is sorcery or religion and the modern way of
that
is Chinese qigong.
, Qigong helps people eliminate the interference with Back to Root
consciousness from
the concepts forming
in the development
of human consciousness. To
transcend
all
the concepts means
"Enlightenment"
, the super experience
of human, with
which the person' s Root Complexes can be thoroughly putting
in order and
his
potential
power can be fully developed. In this sense
it
is reasonable that Chinese qigong may be under
the name of "Oriental Enlightenmentology"
.
"The Way of Back to Root" including some important principles and techniques
, is from
the study of the Taoist and Buddhist qigong, that would be helpful for people to get the super
experience—enlightenment
, and rebuild his personality to make himself more useful for the!
society. In this sense the Way of Back to Root can also be called "Personality Rebuilding En-
gineering".
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EXPLORATION
INTO THE
TREATING
EFFECT
OF
QIGONG MUSIC
Wang Wantao
Shanghai Musical Institute
, Shanghai, China
We will discuss here about two models which may be formed in the musical therapy ,i. e.
the aspects of the general and the characteristic.
In the characteristic musical therapy (CMT) ,i. e. as refering to a comprehensive musical
treatment model, it belongs conceptionally to qigong musical synthetic therapy.
The extraordinary mental therapy indicates some kinds of species coming from the thera-
peutic practice of voice in silent chanting, and also words of incantation in chanting with pos-
tured hands, and in the practice of therapy by praying with belief.
The essence about
this
kind
of therapy
is
"an
inner-vision
for
breath," "energy
for
voice" ,and a "guidance for consciousness"
, focusing on the patients with such kinds of versa-
tile information response, or
it
is so called holographic response embodying physiological and
mental aspects.
The characteristic musical therapy can help patients
to discover the potential energy,
promoting them to self-understanding
, and to a more great satisfaction with such treatment
they have taken.
Music has such qualities as its physical
, physiological
, or super-psychological characteris-
tics,!. e. music has both morphological and gymno-type
characteristics
, and
it has
also an
amorphous of no specific shape, or formless crypto-type characteristics. In the field of CMT
,
it
is said, we can combine the above two types of music therapy into the re-discovery of the
ancient therapeutic theory, and to the present followers, it will deepen this subject and widen
the scientific area of medical qigong research and human body research.
In the process of development of modern musical therapy, a peculiar kind of human voice
has been found. To humanity, the recognition and command to such kind as to apply in the
present day medicine is most crucial to (CMT) the research of musical therapy.
In ancient witch culture
, music-making
, singing and dancing were able to cure illness.
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THE LEVEL OF CIRCLE OF QI
Luo Sen
Zhejiang Martial Arts Institute
, Hangzhou 310013
, China
The key problem of the research on the levels of the qigong state is how to make a cor-
rect judgment. There
is no scientific detection systems and the detection usually depends on
self-consciousness and the descriptions in ancient medical
classics. It affects the populariza-
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tion of qigong exercises and often makes confusion.
:The author advocates
the production of
qi and
connecting between the Ren and Du
Meridians is the criterion for the judgment of the qigong state. There are 5 levels of circle of
qi>i.je. (l)Internal qi starts to produce
; (2) Warm at Dantian; (3)Beating between the heart
and kidney $ (4) Minor circle of qi;(5) Major circle of qi.
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THE DEVELOPING TENDENCY OF CHINESE MEDICAL
QIGONG IN CONTEMPORARY TIMES
Zhao Lianting
, Zhao Baofeng
Beidaihe Qigong Sanitorium
, Beidaihe
, China
In recent years, we have investigated into the cause of the side-effect in qigong exercises!
and the pathogenesis
, and the clinical application of medical qigong. Since 1987, we have ad-
mitted 200 cases of side-effect in qigiong exercises. It is found there are many factors causing
the ^ide-effect , but the misunderstanding of
"mental and
qi harmonization" is the common
problem.
The process of qigong exercise
is in fact
a transition from
"shi shen"
to "yuan shen"
,
;
from
turbid qi to genuine qi. "This kind of transition may have its orderly process
, known as
"foundation laying"
. When the "turbid qi"
is not removed, the qi concentrated at the Dantian
area pr other parts is a kind of turbid qi
, which is unstablized in the body. It may bring about
disturbance when the exerciser encounters some unfavorable external factors, such as fright-
ening, anger, "too much mind concentration
etc. Sometimes
, family or individual psychoic
history causes the disturbance. When the turbid qi travels along the Du Meridian to the head
,
psychosis occurs in severe cases, or there has a feeling of heavy pressure on the head in mild
cases. If the turbid qi escapes from meridians , there may be a distending and numb feeling of
the body. How to avoid such side-effect? We have developed a new medical qigong system ac-
!
cording to the ancestors' experience. Here
is a brief account.
Positive health depends
relative equilibrium between
the
five zang organs. No matter
i
what qigong school
it is, the chief task of medical qigong
is to regulate the five zang organs,
dredge meridians and cultivate
'essence, qi and mentality" To guarantee the process going
smoothly, it
is necessary to have a foundation laying process.
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PRACTISING QIGONG AND CULTIVATING MY MORAL
CHARACTER
MY 60-YEARS' REALIZATION
Zhao Guang
Qigong Department , Xi Yuan Hospital .China Academy of TCM, Beijing 100091,
China
I am 80 years old now
. My work
is to treat patients with the emitting
qi and
I go to
work every day.
I have been practising qigong for 60 years. For my realization, practising qigong has two
main aims,i. e. (l)Keeping
fit bodily and mind (2)Developing one's congitive ability.
Qigong
exercises can adjust balance of yin and yang
via nourishing yin and calming
yang. Hence, it has the function of healing .keeping
fit and prolonging
life. This
is the lower
level of qigong.
Developing congitive ability is to top one's mind potentials. At the same time, I have dis-
cussed the basic theory and important methods of practising qigong in the paper.
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A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF DAOYIN QIGONG
Qiu Jining
China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
This paper systemizes and formulates, from the angle of Chinese medical literature, the
ancient Chinese qigong treatments for the internal organs. There are three main points
j (1)
Different qigong methods are indicated for different organs. (2) Each of the qigong methods
must be according to the seasons .directions as well as five colours. fSjEven to the very same
organ, the qigong treatment must be different because of different conditions.
This paper introduces seven influencial Daoyin exercises
, indicated for the five organs.
The purpose of the paper
is
to offer some reference ideas and methods
for further re-
search on the qigong treatment according to correct diagnosis.
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