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In China, all types of qigong have three roots. The qigong of Confucius, the qigong of Buddha Shakyamuni and the last is the Tao qigong. The first two have well-defined historical sources. Tao Qigong is rooted in such a distant past in which there was no one except shamans. This is a very ancient tradition. Her goal is to know the world. All over the world. In all its facets and shades, without stopping at anything, without reckoning with authorities and not restricting anything. It was she who was persecuted in China during the cultural revolution. Their monasteries were destroyed, and the monks ... Whoever managed, he escaped. Then the same thing happened several times in Tibet. The followers of Tao Qigong go their own way. Everyone. They are often hermits, but they also take students. They do not need books and monasteries, their monastery is the whole world. And he is their holy book. It is impossible to burn and this wisdom cannot be destroyed.
I got lucky. I had a Tao Qigong teacher. Sly as a shaman, wise as an old hermit, incomprehensible as the world. I learned a lot from him, but in fact, only one thing - to go my own way. And I, probably, can also learn only this. This is the way of Tao. You can learn it, but you will have to go on it yourself. And the point here is not in secrets and secret knowledge, you just need to learn things that cannot be touched or considered. Each person even feels the taste of sugar in his own way, and try to explain it to the Chinese, for example, who does not really perceive sugar as food. It is difficult to convey the sensations of subtle energies. They live inside each person and do not go outside. Each of these sensations is their own. Of course, you can help. Point in the right direction, warn against obvious errors. Something can be seen, with experience such a vision comes, something can be transmitted directly, and this happens. But in most cases this is an individual, big job. The teacher is forced to wait for the sprout of the right one to hatch itself and only then point to it. Grass does not grow faster if it is pulled by the stem. You can only walk around, turn the flower to the light and water to the right extent. You’ll kill a lot of water, too.
The set of initial exercises is so simple that you can explain them in half an hour. However, it sometimes takes years to finish this part of the work. Now the time is tight, usually everything turns out faster, but this has its minus. Need experience. Knowledge needs to grow into life. You can jump over and go forward, but then you still have to come back. It's a shame, but they go up this staircase sequentially.
At first, the basis of practice is made up of various ways to feel the subtle energies of the world and learn to live in harmony with their movement. In this sense, Tao Qigong is in good harmony with Tai Chi Chuan, where the main goal, at first, is also to learn to move in accordance with the flow of energies. One complements and polishes the other.
As a result of such work, many students discover that their life is becoming calmer, more harmonious. They respond better and more correctly to external changes, often, instead of excess emotions, calmly begin to do what is needed. Someone is losing weight, someone is getting better. Everyone gradually finds his balance in this world. To better see what is happening around, you must first clean up the inside. This happens by itself, there are no special exercises for this. The balance of energies within does this work for you. And here you can help, this process is precisely called qigong.