Taoist Qigong health care for cultivating both life and life!
Taoist Qigong for health maintenance
Qigong gives people a mysterious color. In fact, modern Qigong is mainly used for health maintenance and physical fitness. In particular, Taoist Qigong is widely spread and among many middle-aged and elderly people. Taoist Qigong health preservation will help you appreciate the essence, energy and spirit. Let’s see what Taoist Qigong is.
The modern term "Qigong" includes the ancient "tuna", "daoyin", "cunshen", "quiet power", "dynamic power", "inner power", "external power", "Cultivation", "meditating", "entering concentration", "zazen", "sitting for health", "cultivation of body and mind", "breathing for health", etc., and even some martial arts such as Tai Chi, as long as they are based on internal strength, are all qigong range.
Qigong is divided into two categories: dynamic qigong and static qigong. The former is also called external qigong, and the latter is also called internal qigong. External Kung Fu is based on internal Kung Fu, and only when it is extremely still can it be active. It is said that "train the essence, Qi and spirit internally, and train the muscles, bones and skin externally." Only when the essence, Qi and spirit are sufficient can the muscles and bones be strong. Static work is not static, but "externally static and internally dynamic", which is a special state of movement of the body. As Wang Chuanshan said: "Quietness means stillness and movement, not immobility."
Quietness is used to cultivate the mind, and breathing is the main practice method; movement is used to practice form, and moving the limbs is the main practice method. . Regardless of static or dynamic exercises, they are inseparable from the three basic methods of mind adjustment, breath adjustment, and body adjustment, which are the three links of mindfulness, breathing, and posture. Quietness generates yin, and movement generates yang. Practice both movement and stillness, and combine the "three adjustments" to harmonize yin and yang, eliminate diseases and prolong life. As Tao Hongjing said in "Yang Xing Yan Ming Lu": "Be able to move and be still, so you will live forever."
Two representatives of Taoist Qigong
Taoist health-preserving Qigong was founded by Laozi and has been passed down for more than 2,000 years. In the Yuan Dynasty, Patriarch Qiu Chuji founded the Longmen sect of Taoism, which was passed down to Niu Jinbao through twelve generations. Taoist health-preserving skills are based on gathering the mind and seeking tranquility, which is called cultivating one's nature; nourishing one's essence and strengthening one's essence is the destination, which is called nourishing one's life. Cultivation of one's nature must be carried out on top of nourishing one's life, so this skill is called the dual cultivation of one's nature and life's health. This is the fundamental difference between this Qigong and other Qigong, and also the reason why it has special health-preserving effects. Therefore, the Taoist health-preserving power can not only transform a weak person into a strong person, but also rejuvenate a person's youth; it can not only drive away diseases and restore health, but also nourish the brain, nourish the mind, and increase wisdom.
Laozi
Taoism respects Laozi as its ancestor. Laozi, surnamed Li, named Er, courtesy name Boyang, also known as Laodan, was a native of Ku County, Chu State. He was a great thinker in the Xia and Autumn Period, the founder of Taoism, and the author of the book "Tao Te Ching". "Tao Te Ching" became the theoretical basis for Taoism to write books and establish theories. It is said that Laozi preached to Jinmu, Jinmu passed it on to Baiyun, and Baiyun preached it to Wang Xuanfu. Another saying: Laozi was passed down to Wang Xuanfu.
Wang Chongyang
Taoist priest of Jin Dynasty and founder of Quanzhen Sect. His original name was Zhongfu and his courtesy name was Yunqing. Later, he was renamed Dewei and his courtesy name was Shixiong. Weiyang people. Born into a wealthy family, he passed the martial arts examination and passed the first class. He met the immortal Lu Dongbin and taught him the secret of cultivation, and he became proficient in the art of immortality. So he abandoned his wife and son and traveled around the Zhongnan Mountains. In the first year of Dading of Emperor Shizong of Jin Dynasty, he lived in a cave in Nanshi Village and named his cave "Tomb of the Living Dead". Later he went to Kunyu Mountain in Shandong Province (southeast of Muping, Shandong Province today). Ma Yu and Sun Buer, the couple who built the nunnery, were their teachers and named their nunnery "Quanzhen". All the scholars who followed him were Quanzhen Taoist priests. Then he preached in Wendeng, Ninghai and Laizhou. It advocated the unity of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, advocated the practice of practicing Qi all the time, becoming a monk to practice Buddhism, and not practicing external elixirs, and formulated a system for Taoist monks to become monks. He has written books such as "The Complete Collection of Chongyang Festival", "Collection of Chongyang Education" and "Fifteen Treatises on Lijiao" which have been handed down to the world. His disciple Ma Yu was Ma Danyang, Tan Chuduan, Liu Chuxuan, Qiu Chuji, Wang Chuyi, Hao Datong and Sun Buer (female). Later generations were called Northern Qizhen, and each established their own sect.
Theoretical basis: The theoretical basis of health-preserving skills can be summed up in the word "Tao". What is Tao? Laozi's "Tao Te Ching" says: "I don't know its name, so I call it 'Tao'." It also says: "The nameless beginning of heaven and earth; the name is the mother of all things." It is all-encompassing, and its The details are all-encompassing, the heavens and the earth are born, the highest and the greatest. The Tao gives rise to one, which is Wuji; the Tao gives rise to two, which is Tai Chi. Tai Chi generates two rituals. The two rituals are divided into four images, and the four images are divided into eight trigrams, eight hundred and sixty-four hexagrams, and three hundred and eighty-four lines. They fulfill the principle of life and life and preserve health.
So how do Taoist exercises rejuvenate people? It is demonstrated based on the principles of the eight hundred and sixty-four hexagrams and the three hundred and eighty-four lines of the rise and fall of yin and yang. When a person is in the mother's womb for ten months, the fetus is round, the melons are ripe and the stems fall off, and after birth the body is as soft as cotton, and its image belongs to Kun. Once the umbilical cord is cut, the congenital Qi is severed, and the later Qi enters through the mouth and nose; the eyes are separated, and the tongue does not take over; the sex Qi moves up to the heart, the Ming Qi moves down to the kidneys, and the Qi between the Qi and Qi is eight inches and four minutes apart (traditional Dharma); the Yuan Shen loses his position and the Consciousness God takes over; he becomes strong from childhood, becomes old when he is strong, becomes sick when old, and dies from illness, and his life is never the same.
The health-preserving effects of Taoist Qigong
1. Replenish the brain and nourish the mind. When you enter tranquility through Jingyang Gong, the first thing that benefits is the central nervous system of the brain.
2. Consolidate essence and nourish Qi. If you don’t maintain your health but don’t consolidate your essence, the result will be in vain.
3. Adjust breath and energy, and expand lung capacity.
4. Regulate the five internal organs.
5. Clear your mind tomorrow.
6. Soothe the body and activate blood circulation, activating the whole body.
7. Long-term practice of health-preserving exercises has unique curative effects on neurasthenia, long-night insomnia, nocturnal emissions, impotence, kidney deficiency, and physical weakness.