My notes from today’s Hunyuan Qi Gong lesson from Master Chen.

So today’s lesson was “switching to qigong mode” by standing (in the wuji stance?) and ‘forgetting yourself’.

first thing to do is ‘many counts in, one count out’ breathing. To start with, aim for about 4-8 breaths a minute, for three months.

Do external things (like counted breathing?) , internal is a ‘result’ that will happen on its own. Counted breathing is one way (external) to ‘kill your thoughts’ (internal result). Focusing on something that is not thinking (here breath + counts) to kill thoughts. Killing the ape of the heart and the horse of the mind is very difficult, so we use method.

Qigong is more difficult than Taiji, because there is less to do. In Taiji, more difficult to do simple moves than many elaborate moves . In Qigong, in the end, you don’t move at all.

Do 50 minutes taji, 10 minutes qigong. (in qigong) in the beginning, just stand. (ok, I’m adding this to the daily PM yilu practice)

Some students asked some advanced questions about meridians etc, which I didn’t understand.

End of notes.

I’m not sure how to join these casts though. are these on Zoom? (i caught the FB video, but there seems to be no way to ask questions – not that I have many questions, but it would be nice to have the option !)