I rarely read your posts Richy since you are soooo whacked out but this one is so full of shit I had to reply
I have only been practicing chi gung for 2 years and there is no chanting nor mantras in chi gung unless its some made up New Age bullshit version of chi gung. Such New Age bs certainly does exist, but I don't practice nor pay attention to such stuff. The chi gung I do is mainly very old traditional routines that do not include such fluff. movements, coordinated breathing with the movements (in most routines, not all) and yes there is the visualization or intention in some of the routines. But again not all. Chi gung has a zillion variations and some of the more recent in my estimation are bs or real chi gung with added bs that someone can say is their proprietary spin so they can sell it more easily. Jeff Primack is a good example - his seminars are hugely successful, I estimate he makes a minimum of 60 to 70 thousand bucks (gross) on each one, plus book and DVD sales. He trained with some good people but has turned what he does into a personality cult of sorts although mild compared to Marshy and such like Hindoo Gurus. -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 4/11/14, Richard J. Williams <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Are the TM-Sidhis nothing but Placebo Effect? To: [email protected] Date: Friday, April 11, 2014, 12:18 PM On 4/11/2014 5:04 AM, Michael Jackson wrote: > The assertion that world peace can be achieved by people doing a > practice that has never produced promised results on any level > (meaning no peace, no true levitation, invisibility, etc), the > assertion that yagyas make any discernible difference, that living in > a vastu home guarantees alleviation of life problems when the actual > opposite has been seen right there in Fairfield IS a "ridiculous > extreme" point of view. Just sayin'. It kind of looks like MJ got mixed up - he quit TM and started doing Qigong, which has at it's basis the distribution of Qi energy - just like the ME. Just sayin'. You have to wonder how a guy could get so indoctrinated in just a few years working in a kitchen. In various Buddhist Qigong traditions, the aim is to still the mind, either through outward focus, for example on a place, or through inward focus on the breath, a mantra, a koan, emptiness, or the idea of the eternal. In the Confucius scholar tradition, meditation is focused on humanity and virtue, with the aim of self-enlightenment. Go figure. "Qigong is a meditative practice that utilizes breath awareness, visualization, mantra, chanting, sound, and focus on philosophical concepts such as qi circulation, aesthetics, or moral values. In traditional Chinese medicine and Daoist practice, the meditative focus is commonly on cultivating qi in dantian energy centers and balancing qi flow in meridian and other pathways." Work cited: 'Roots of Chinese Chi Kung: Secrets of Chi Kung Training' by Jwing-Ming Yang The Martial Arts Association --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
