and FYI most qigong masters and teachers do not consider qigong to be a meditation technique
________________________________ From: Richard J. Williams <rich...@rwilliams.us> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, November 9, 2012 12:11 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: muula-bandha? mjackson74: > But the practice of qigong can lead to such experience > 'Qigong' is just a matter of placement and positioning. Didn't we go over this before? Qigong is the alignment of breath, movement and awareness; a meditation technique similar to Hindu and Buddhist yoga and vastu. The main symbol of the practice is the Dharma Wheel, or Dharma Cakra - a yantra or mandala, like the one Guru Dev used in his program, like the one Shankara got in Kashmere. According to Qigong teachings humans are originally and innately perfect, but that they descended into a realm of delusion and suffering after developing selfishness and accruing too much karma. This Qigong philosophy is very similar to Yoga-Sankhya, with the three gunas, except that Gigong has Yin and Yang polarity symbolism. > > Using the tip of the tongue to the roof of the mouth > > to close the circuit is Qi-gong not Hatha/Kudalini. > > > <snip> > > > I've thought muula-bandha is something like Kegel. > > > > > > Reading some descriptions yesterday made me abandon > > > that thought. > > > > > What exactly is it? > > >
