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In this post(s) we translated a Chinese text we got from our Shaolin YiJinJing school in China. The text which is a list was compiled by a very competent Chinese medicine doctor in Beijing and since then it was circulating within China between different doctors emails and websites.
Based on our experience and practice of YiJinJing we can confirm the validity of the rules and also we can confirm the fact that following them gives the power for anyone to overcome disease and improve life quality. Some of the rules cannot be applied alone, for instance to cure the blood sometimes we need medicine and we also need a good doctor to check us and prescribe the right medicine. But even in this case applying the rules can help the process and prepare the body for a quicker recovery.
We advise you to read few posts every day and meditate some time about them, how they would apply on yourself, what seems to give a sense of urgency and what should be taken care for the long run. After you finish reading all of them please read them once again. We hope those gems of knowledge will help you improve your life quality and, why not, longevity.
No. 56 – Bargaining
Don’t crave for anything to be a bit cheaper or even a lot cheaper. Even a bit of craving holds the evil of attachment. Craving is being troubled by gain and loss until one gets a serious heart disease. Craving is being troubled by gain and loss: this means one has no clue about nature or the ways of Dao.
No. 57 – Food
Don’t spend your days thinking about what you could eat to supplement yin or what you could take to enhance yang. Just remember in all activities you give rise to yang; in all quietude you give rise to yin. Yin is the mother of yang; yang is the son of yin.
No. 58 – Precedence
When your qi is deficient, don’t enhance it blindly. This may have a negative impact on the whole body. If it is because blood is deficient, then you should first enhance the blood. This is because blood is the mother of qi, and if you don’t treat it first, you run the danger of drying and overheating the blood vessels and burning up the inner organs. If it is because there is an obstruction and the qi cannot flow freely, enhance both blood and qi by working on them equally. This way you will succeed in enhancing qi.
No. 59 – Environment
The importance of the environment for people’s health cannot be overemphasized. This is why people who live in deep mountains and ancient forests with clean air and fresh qi heal so much more easily. The subtle particles and high oxygen content of the air in these places get into the deep breath when people are in a relaxed state. They thus are absorbed by the body, where they moisturize and nurture the five organs and six intestines and give people new life energy. Another point people are not usually aware of is that even if they do not breathe deeply through nose and mouth, every pore of their bodies breathes in and out all the time—a feature that is essential in our connection to nature and heaven.
No. 60 – Heaven and Earth
When people are relaxed and breathe slow and deep, their body achieves a state of subtle energetic exchange with heaven and earth. Upon inhalation, they in fact expel the inhaled breath in the lungs and the whole body moves to push internal qi out. This is how the qi of humanity moves toward heaven and earth. During exhalation, they in fact absorb the subtle energy of heaven and earth through every pore of the body. This is what Laozi refers to when he speaks of “Between heaven and earth, it is like a bellows.”
No. 61 – Avoid in Exercising
Two things to avoid in exercising:
- Do not exercise when blood and qi are deficient.
- Do not exercise in a dirty or defiled environment.
No. 62 – Do in Exercising
Two things to do in exercising:
- Increase the speed of blood and qi circulation, so the toxins inside the body can come to the surface.
- Open the body’s pores wide and breathe in deeply, so you absorb the essence and qi of heaven and earth.
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