Qigong is a very profound system of knowledge. It belongs to the highest ranks of Chinese culture and world culture. Chinese people talk about life energy as the source of the universe that causes the growth of all things. It is a different theory from modern science. Astrophysicists talk about the Big Bang, an enormous explosion, and the universe was created. But the Chinese talk about the primordial state of the universe in terms of life energy, which creates and transforms. The ancients didn’t talk about why this is so, but they talk about how one can harmonize with this reality and conserve one’s life energy. Man has this life energy. How is he going to use it? To cultivate life energy, one needs to replenish all the life energy that’s been lost. How? Methods vary.
Most methods rely on cultivating life energy in the body, aiming to make up the loss. China calls this the cultivation of “Jing Qi Shen”. Another method relies directly to the life energy of nature. This is our approach. We cultivate our own life energy through accessing nature’s great store of life energy. This approach produces quicker results.
However, cultivating one’s life energy is not the most fundamental but cultivating one’s spirit is. Mastery of life energy is really achieved through mastery of consciousness. We use consciousness in a careful, craftsman-like way, to shape our life and to attain our goals. If we use modern terminology to name this process, we call it qigong. The ancients used the word life energy and this mystifies people. But in modern terms, qigong is just the refinement of consciousness to enhance the state of energy in the body. This leads to good health, harmonious body and mind, and an awakened spiritual life.
Practicing qigong is very easy. Using life energy to cure illness is also very easy. It’s not that complex.
People have all kinds of notions about qigong today. They think that one uses qigong and cures an illness and that’s it. Even if they cure themselves, many don’t believe deeply in the process. However, qigong is not so limited. One can help others. One can help turn other people’s lives around.
By Dr. Pang Ming |
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