gerard
26-Nov-2004, 12:59 PM
Hi guys,
I urge anyone who hasn't read this book to do so:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0804831858/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-4430397-4622216#reader-link
This book is one of the best books I have came across in my entire life. I am in the first quarter of it and its pretty amazing. Definitively this book as changed my entire approach to life. I need to undertake serious Daoist training, what I have been doing so far is being a try hard Daoist. Definitively my days in the city are almost over.
There is an aspect of master Wang Liping's training that really puzzles me:
Eight trigram mental ball training:
"Once he had built up from one to nine energy balls of different colors (previous info is not given) , they whirled around his body, above and below, left and right. Wang Liping determined the positions of the 8 trigrams, set a fixed direction and order, and then ran from one position to the next, so lightly and swiftly that he virtually flew, his upper body remaining erect and balanced throughout, blending different hand positions and different breathing patterns into an infinitely varied flux, while those nine colored energy balls revolved around him, above and below, left and right, according to regular patterns."
Does anyone have a clue of what does this stuff mean?
"Once he was capable of doing this, Wang Liping was able to mentally extract his own internal organs, whirl them around in the air, massage them, and put them back into his gut. This exercise, which strengthens the internal organs, is simply inconceivable to an ordinary person without the requisite mental training." (I agree !)
***** rating. Don't read it if you don't believe in qi because this bookk introduces to you very esoteric stuff that even myself I never heard of before. Even other schools of Daoism ignore many of the training methods and achievements of Dragon Gate Daoists.
Downside: As good Daoists the Dragon Gate school holds back some aspects of the master's training by the three Daoist wizards:
1. Zhang Hodao, Wayfarer of the Infinite, 16th generation Transmitter of the Dragon Gate sect. 82 years of age at the time (in the mid 1970s, when Wang Liping training ocurred).
2. Wang Jiaoming, Wayfarer of Pure Serenity, 17th generation Transmitter of the Dragon Sect (72 years of age at that time).
3. Gu Jiaoyi, Wayfarer of Pure Emptiness, 17th generation Transmitter of the Dragon sect. He had a unique method of curing illness by acupuncture without actually inserting needless into the body; because of this, he was popularly known as the "Infinite Acupuncturist."
I have the feeling that these wizards are still kicking ass in Lao San. I have to get there. One day, very soon. I can't wait. But first get rid of my Western thinking and ego.
To Soggycat: This Translation of Thomas Cleary is so practical that you'll be amazed. I reckon it's Cleary's masterpiece.
:)
I urge anyone who hasn't read this book to do so:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0804831858/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-4430397-4622216#reader-link
This book is one of the best books I have came across in my entire life. I am in the first quarter of it and its pretty amazing. Definitively this book as changed my entire approach to life. I need to undertake serious Daoist training, what I have been doing so far is being a try hard Daoist. Definitively my days in the city are almost over.
There is an aspect of master Wang Liping's training that really puzzles me:
Eight trigram mental ball training:
"Once he had built up from one to nine energy balls of different colors (previous info is not given) , they whirled around his body, above and below, left and right. Wang Liping determined the positions of the 8 trigrams, set a fixed direction and order, and then ran from one position to the next, so lightly and swiftly that he virtually flew, his upper body remaining erect and balanced throughout, blending different hand positions and different breathing patterns into an infinitely varied flux, while those nine colored energy balls revolved around him, above and below, left and right, according to regular patterns."
Does anyone have a clue of what does this stuff mean?
"Once he was capable of doing this, Wang Liping was able to mentally extract his own internal organs, whirl them around in the air, massage them, and put them back into his gut. This exercise, which strengthens the internal organs, is simply inconceivable to an ordinary person without the requisite mental training." (I agree !)
***** rating. Don't read it if you don't believe in qi because this bookk introduces to you very esoteric stuff that even myself I never heard of before. Even other schools of Daoism ignore many of the training methods and achievements of Dragon Gate Daoists.
Downside: As good Daoists the Dragon Gate school holds back some aspects of the master's training by the three Daoist wizards:
1. Zhang Hodao, Wayfarer of the Infinite, 16th generation Transmitter of the Dragon Gate sect. 82 years of age at the time (in the mid 1970s, when Wang Liping training ocurred).
2. Wang Jiaoming, Wayfarer of Pure Serenity, 17th generation Transmitter of the Dragon Sect (72 years of age at that time).
3. Gu Jiaoyi, Wayfarer of Pure Emptiness, 17th generation Transmitter of the Dragon sect. He had a unique method of curing illness by acupuncture without actually inserting needless into the body; because of this, he was popularly known as the "Infinite Acupuncturist."
I have the feeling that these wizards are still kicking ass in Lao San. I have to get there. One day, very soon. I can't wait. But first get rid of my Western thinking and ego.
To Soggycat: This Translation of Thomas Cleary is so practical that you'll be amazed. I reckon it's Cleary's masterpiece.
:)