QUOTE(Goibniu @ Apr 5 2011, 02:23 AM)
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fatherjhon you haven't mentioned specifically what qigong exercises you practice so it is hard to say much as to why your energy circulation is said to be poor. Perhaps you are doing some form of qi packing? Most qigong promotes the circulation of energy. For instance I do a lot of the macrocosmic orbit. In that I start from the lower Dantian and end there, circulating qi up the governor meridian and down the conception meridian as well as sending energy up and down from the earth through the legs. But there a lot of different exercises so I don't want to say that what I do is the best or only way.
Not chi packing, too new for my taste. I like to start with the original literature before a try the new stuff. My chigong consists of dissolving energy gates, cultivating yin chi in the lower dan tien via sitting and standing meditation, gathering yang chi by moving meditation. Circulations I do are the mirco-cosmic circulation and two that come from the Buddhist tradition the names of which I do not know, the first is moving chi though the taiji pole, the other is moving it up though what I think are the Nadi - but may well be the Liver Chanel- up the left side to the upper dan tien and down the right. Lastly I will from time to time to time do circulation of fire and and water. This sounds like a lot when I write it out but it only takes 30min to do.
QUOTE(Goibniu @ Apr 5 2011, 02:23 AM)
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In any case, the idea isn't that you store energy there and let it sit like a lump; you take it into the cauldron in order to brew up an improved qi. After that you send it out to the rest of the body where it can circulate and do you some good.
Ah. I think that might be where I am misunderstanding. I thought the circulations
where what you did to send the chi out to "do good."
QUOTE(Goibniu @ Apr 5 2011, 02:23 AM)
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I don't think of the lower tantian as a storage battery as much as a capacitor. [...] Capacitors do store energy but it is temporary, short term storage--like a way station or stop over. The Chinese describe the lower tantian as being composed of two major parts to my understanding. ...the outer part, both front and back.... corresponds to how yogis describe chakras ... connected by the governor and conception channels which allows you to send it out or bring it back... The second part of the dantian is what they call the Qi Hai, the 'sea of qi'. It is a reservoir in some senses but Taoists think of it as a cauldron or cooking pot. In this cauldron they mix and combine fire and water.
This is a lot like how I have heard the upper dan tien described. It is a bit off topic but if you will humor me, I have been working though some old (~1500 yo) books on taoist meditation and energy work that talks about mixing fire and water to make a elixir or lesser pill. Could you speak more on this and perhaps how it is done?