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More info on Big Dipper QigongFrom: Steven
Subject: Practice
Date/Time 2009-06-21 00:37:09
Remote IP: 74.235.102.47
MessageHi Shenchi,
I'm not an expert on Taoist cosmology, so I'll
answer as best I can--also based on personal experience.
The stepping movements follow the stars of the Big Dipper,
so by doing the form you are forming a link of intention
with its component stars. The associated arm movements
then act as a spiritual magnet/vortex, which then attracts
the stellar energy down into your sacred space and into
your being. Meanwhile, the repetitive stepping--in and
by itself--act as a pump, pumping earth qi into you from
below. Note that both the stellar energy and the earth qi
are energies of the manifest world, i.e. later heaven.
These two energies come into your core and mix. A few
periodic "retrograde" movements of backward stepping
act to cement this mixed energy deep into a core
inner dimension of yourself.
Aside from these infrequent retrogrades of individual
steps, the overall movement of the form is clockwise
as you go from one Big Dipper mandala to the next.
Clockwise is the manifesting direction.
Putting all these elements together, I would say that the form
has the power to potentize your intention and alter your
unfolding destiny in the ever-developing present moment.
Thus, in my opinion, while most of the qigong operates
in the world of form using intensely powerful energies, there
is also a very small periodic mini-dance on the boundary
between form and formless which allows it to imprint
intention into the present moment.
Cheers,
Steven
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