March, 04In Level Two of ZY Qigong practice, we let our energy naturally raise from my Lower Dantian to activate our Middle Dantian—middle energy center in the heart area. These exercises activate and strengthen our emotional empathy. We work on building our Middle...

March, 04Life is simple.The essence of life can be known.We can understand each other and ourselves.We can feel the connectedness always.How, you ask.We need to unlearn things that are untrue in ourselves,and re-learn our internal truth again—Children sometimes say...

March, 04Things are just fine, we say.We like to keep things the same. We like security. We like the familiar, routines. We like an easy life.We like our ways.We like to stay with what we know.We like people who are like us.We don’t like new things. We don’t like big...

The first step qigong teaches is body awareness, this inner relaxed alartness that you see in masters of qigong, taichi and internal martial arts. In sports, we learn the concentrated body awareness. When we become unaware or in our head, it’s easy to sustain...

Feb. 04The mind is such an interesting character!It wants to get in the middle of everything, here and now, past and future, and everywhere else. I find it easier to relax the mind during standing meditation rather than sitting for novice meditators. When I practice...

People come to me for healing when in crisis. I do the same. We think, “Fix me! I am uncomfortable!” “I am out of my normal range of comfort. Put me back to my comfort zone again!” What we forget is that these crises are mere reminders. There is no such thing as an...

Progression in learning knowledge is like a linear line going up and up. It’s about logic, thinking with the frontal lobe of the brain. You learn existing solutions to past problems. To practice qigong is not about learning knowledge. It’s about opening up wisdom....

June, 05 Mingtang has been talking about needing to go to Alaska for years. His teacher has told him that there are eight places in the world that hold the same teaching. Shaolin is one. Of the other seven places, Mingtang was only able to remember Tibet, Alaska and...

June, 05 I found the on/off switch to the bliss in meditation. I am not joking. I have been meditating for six years now. Lots of you probably could relate to my progression: at the beginning, more than five minutes of meditation used to be aggravating for me; then,...

The Past I do not have.The Future I do not own.All I have is Now.All there is is what I am creating Now.All I am is the “I” in the Now.See, feel, accept, bless, release, let.Trust. Truth. Will (Courage). Love (Compassion). Peace (Being).Dear friends,Through my months...