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“ When the genuine energy is stored within, the diseases cannot invide the body”.
-- Li Dongyuan (1180 – 1251)
“ The energy is the basis of life. Everything in Universe changes and develops thanks to qi.”
- - Zhang Zhongjing, ("Jing Yue's Anthology"), Ming Dynasty
“Not the person trains the energy, but the energy trains the person.”
-- qigong saying
“Life exists because qi is amassed, when qi is dispersed, one dies.”
-- Zhuang Zi, ancient Chinese philosopher, Taoist and qigongist.
“The energy is a matter.”
-- “The Book of Changes” (“Zhou Yi Yi Jing"”)
“Health preservation means to look at the original energy qi and the jing essence as wealth”.
-- Tao Xuanjing
“ Man is created by the energy of Heaven and Earth, and is leaded by the principles of the four seasons.”
-- from the ancient Chinese medical book "Huang Di Nei Jing" (Su Wen) ”)
“ Stillness is benevolence.”
-- Confucius
“ Why do we practice qigong? Because it provides a longer life".”
-- from the treatise "A Formula for 13 Movements of Taijiquan"
“ Half day I am in meditation, and half day - reading books.”
-- Zhu Xi, a neo-Confucian philosopher
“ Qi is never destroyed, only transformed”.
-- Zhang Zai
“ In its disintegrated state, qi is scattered and diffuse. Through integration, it forms matter, thereby giving rise to the manifold diversity of humans and things.”
-- Luo Qinshun, a neo-Confucian from Ming Dynasty
“ In stillness be like the pine, in movement - like clouds and water.”
-- qigong saying
“When the mind is correct and genuine, the negative energy scatters away. When the energy is pure and genuine, hundred things can be achieved.”
-- Wang Jianjun
“ Hold breath so that even a goose feather cannot stir before the nostril. Breathe slowly and gently 300 times without hearing anything, seeing anything, or thinking anything...”
-- Sun Simiao, great Chinese doctor, scientist and qigong master
“ To exhale and inhale, to get rid of the stale and take in the fresh.”
-- Zhuang Zi ("Zhuang Zi: On Painstaking")
“ Not permitting one thing to interfere with another is called "concentration". When the mind is asleep, it dreams. When it is relaxed, it moves of its own accord. When it is employed, it schemes. Theredore, the mind is never without movement. Nonetheless, there is still the capacity for quiescence. Not permitting dreams and petty annoyances to disrupt this capacity to know is called "quiescence".”
-- Xun Zi, ancient Chinese philosopher
“ That which penetrates Heaven and Earth and connects past and present is nothing other than the material substance [qi], which is unitary.”
-- Luo Qinshun, a neo-Confucian from Ming Dynasty
“ My heart is as calm as still water
without the least wind stirring
I sit undisturbed
taking thousand breaths.
Suddenly in the midnight
I enter a wonder land,
With rolling waves and rising sun in sight".
-- Lu You (1125 - 1210), prominent Chinese
literator and qigong practitioner from South Song dynasty.
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“I will follow Wang Qiao to find pleasurable entertainment.
Consume the Six Energies and drink the Drifting Flow, ah!
Rinse the mouth with True Yang
And swallow Down Aurora”.
-- from “Travelling Afar” (“Yuan You”), poem
written by Qu Yuan (about 340 - 278 BC) - great poet and
qigong practitioner from the Warring States period in China.
“ Being stable, one is able to be still;
being still, one is able to be at peace;
being at peace, one is able to contemplate;
being able to contemplate, one is able to get it [the energy].”
-- the Opening statement of
the famous Confucian book “Da Xue” ("The Highest Learning")
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