Larry Johnson (1)

For centuries 18 Buddha hands qigong has been respected by the Chinese Internal Arts community as a superior tool for body, mind and spirit transformation.

This book, with the accompanying video tape, allows the student to access unique information on the physical techniques and the energetic/spiritual aspects of this practice. By viewing the exercises from both an Indian Yoga and a Taoist perspective, the underlying principles of energetic/spiritual cultivation are revealed.

Students from show more many different disciplines will find that this book will broaden their understanding of the mechanisms of internal development.

Larry Johnson has studied qigong for more than 30 years. A doctor of oriental medicine, Larry specializes in teaching qigong and tai chi for the treatment of diesase and maintenance of optimal health.

Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 Background
Channel illustrations
Extra-ordinary vessels with illustations
Chapter 2 Qigong
Chapter 3 Qigong for spiritual development
Chapter 4 Strategies for the eighteen Buddha hands
Chapter 5 Eighteen Buddha hands qigong
One Immortal salutes with folded hands
Two Warrior king lifts the cauldron
Three thrust flowers to left and right
Four Old tree sturdy roots
Five Night demon searching the sea
Six Flash parry open window
Seven Wait'o presents stick
Eight Old monk meditates
Nine Iron cow ploughs earth
Ten Green dragon wags it's tail
Eleven Vault a horse left and right
Twelve Swallow flings water
Thirteen Tiger near body
Fourteen Confine circular force
Fifteen Father and son salute
Sixteen Fluttering carp
Seventeen Jung Li presents cape
Eighteen Hang bottle with golden hook
Appendix A Acupuncture points
Post script
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Explaining tai chi chuan is a difficult task because it is a different experience for each student. We say it is a system of internal exercise used for energetic development, health, art, and/or self defense. These terms can all be mutually inclusive. Health can be experienced on the phsycial, emotional, and spiritual levels as can energetic development, art, and self defense. The individual student defines tai chi chuan subjectively by his or her own personal involvement.

The benefits of show more training are limited only by the potential of the student. Most tai chi systems are the end result of many hundreds of years of development by great thinkers, sages, and other men of vision. The exercises are time tested methods of awakening, strengthening, and improving the flow of vital energy in the body. Training can develop patience self-control and discipline. These qualities in turn can provide for good health on all levels; a healthy body, a peaceful yet vitally alive mind, an integrated emotional life, and a blossoming spirit.

All this and more is the inherent potential of training tai chi chuan, but this potential must be watered by individual effort to bring forth a new richness in each students' life.

Contents

Note the reader
About the author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
History of tai chi chuan
Training tai chi chuan
Energetic philosophy/physiology
Energetics of the postures
The form
Nature observation and stalking
Tai chi chuan, health and longevity
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