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Event Reviews

Hidden Immortal Lineage Taiji Push Hands Workshop by Master Zhongxian Wu

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Hidden Immortal Lineage Taiji Push Hands, Portland 2020 https://chinesewisdomtraditions.com/event/taiji-push-hands/

I decided to not take any pictures this time because there was a lot of information to cover for such a deceptively simple yet hard to mimic series of movements. Perhaps I will post a short video practicing to make up for the lack of visuals. This would be my third time going to a Portland workshop by Master Wu. It started and ended semi awkwardly as the first two, but this time it is becoming a little more charming. Master Wu was a little more lively this time around as the first two workshops where of a qigong / meditation flavor. I got to touch hands with a lot of people. Master Wu’s demonstrations was cool to see as he showed how he can react to physical forces and apply force on to others. I did touch hands with Master Wu, but did not have the opportunity to experience any energetic force.

I bought another one of his many books: Chinese Shamanic Cosmic Orbit Qigong. I was short on cash, but he was kind and gave me a discount. A while back I had purchased a book and video from him on Dai Family XinYi. I am glad I bought them as a set. The book goes into more detail and is easier to understand than the DVD, whilst the DVD is mostly helpful for visuals.

We also learned that Master Wu does not live in Portland any more. I think he said he moved to Switzerland. My partner thinks he said Sweden. We got a contact info with one of his students should we want to pursue this type of push hands. Should we practice this and want to get to another level.

The Big Dipper Ceremony Workshop by Master Zhongxian Wu

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In anticipation of Master Wu’s workshop we started doing a little more research into the Big Dipper and Taoist astrology. I found a number of online references and the one that I found most interesting is Master Chia’s Taoist Nine Star Astrology, which I found to be not extremely dense, but more dense than I wanted it to be. The theory as I can best understand it is that the Earth’s movement and energy patterns are based on the energy fields of nine points that comprise of:
  • The Vega Star (1 point)
  • The Big Dipper (8 points)
  • The North Star (1 point)
The North Star is the Earth’s boss star, which the boss changes about every 26 thousand years when the Earth’s axis changes (axial precession). Currently the Earth’s boss star is Polaris, which is considered a yang star. Our next North Star is Vega, which is a yin star. There is also Thuban, which was our last boss star and is considered a neutral star. In this article it also talks about a Nine Star Chi Theory, where it theorizes about nine distinct electromagnetic phases that occurs from a wobbling on the Earth’s axis (not to be confused with axial precession). These slight wobbles changes the relationship of the Earth’s North/South polarities to the nine points (Vega, Polaris, and the Big Dipper), which then affects the human electromagnetic field. Each star has an important and integral part of each of the nine electromagnetic phase, so during each transformation phase certain stars are accentuated. Transformation phases encompases:
  • 5 Fire Years
  • 5 Earth Years
  • 5 Water Years
  • 5 Wood Years
  • 5 Metal Years
These transformation phase are represented within the nine year cycle, and each year is either a yang or a yin. The article also goes on to talk about a Nine House Astrology, which has something to do with how humans during their lives migrate through the yearly, monthly, daily, and hourly sequences of transformations. The Earth has ten branches, which are five yang energies elements and five yin physical elements. I think these have something to do with the I-Ching Pakua. Nine Directions and Five Elements:
  1. Water (+)
  2. Earth (-)
  3. Wood (+)
  4. Wood (-)
  5. Earth (+ & -)
  6. Metal (+)
  7. Metal (-)
  8. Earth (+)
  9. Fire (-)
Using the Magic Square, these formations can be converted into Sacred Geometry:
4 9 2
3 5 7
8 1 6
This Magic Square has something to do with the movement of the spiraling Universe. The rest of the article goes into mathematical detail how the I-Ching Pakua uses the Magic Square to calculate the nine year cycle of your life. I also found interesting information about the Big Dipper in relation to the Swastika. Of course the Nazis appropriated the symbol for their own cause, but if you don’t know, he Swastika is an ancient religious symbol that dates as far back in Hinduism, which is the oldest known surviving religion in the world.

The Big Dipper Ceremony

Veronica and I first learned of the importance of the Big Dipper in relation to Taoism came from Mantak Chia’s Portland workshop in 2017 and his Awaken Healing Light Meditation where you connect with the Big Dipper and collect it’s red energy into your body. This year we went to Master Wu’s Big Dipper Ceremony on December 8, 2017 at the Motion Massage Studio in Portland, Oregon. This would be the second Master Zhongxian Wu workshop that we have been to.  Just after stepping inside the venue, we were visually greeted with battery powered candles on the floor in a dimly lit yoga studio. The candles were arranged on the floor similar to the graphics of Master Wu’s Chinese Shamanic Cosmic Orbit Qigong book, which looks like two Big Dippers, one mirrored on top of each other. The ceremony consisted of:
  1. Sitting mediation
  2. Circle walking
In the sitting meditation we used a Big Dipper hand mudra as we repeated a chant from Master Wu, which I cannot remember and was not allowed to record. We also visualized the pattern on floor of two Big Dippers in our tan tien. The circle walking was very similar if not exactly the same to the baguazhang circle walking. Baguazhang is a form of internal martial arts that can be thought of as Tai Chi Chuan, and Hsing-i Chuan. We circle walked around each candle on the floor for as many revolutions as we liked. It was interesting feeling the energy charge of the room change during the ceremony. Veronica especially felt a difference when Master Wu participated in the circle walking. After the ceremony we enjoyed conversations with others in the workshop. We had an enjoyable conversation from someone who came all the way out from San Francisco to participate. For the cost of $50 bucks for the both of us, it was a well worth experience.

Mantak Chia PDX Workshop 2017 Review

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Veronica at the Mantak Chia workshop PDX 2017
The Mantak Chia PDX Workshop 2017 was a long awaited, three day Memorial weekend for us. Our great enthusiasm for the first day was met with utter disappointment and bewilderment as we could not find the class, other workshop attendees, or most importantly, Master Chia. We went home and moped around in confusion. Many hours later an instructor who teaches in Eugene, Oregon called us back. It turns out the coordinator of the event had changed the location and we some how did not get notified. After writing down the location for the next day, we went out to see a movie to help bring us back to neutral. After the movie Dan checked his messages and the coordinator left a very apologetic message. Apparently he got into a car wreck in Thailand and broke his leg. The next morning we arrived to the second day of the workshop. We were still enthusiastic, but we couldn’t help but feel a little jaded. We met the coordinator who had crutches. He apologized again and gave us a full six set of Chi Cards, which are cards that have a quick list of information to help with the Taoist exercises. The coordinator is also a senior instructor and gave Dan a special discount for private training lessons that will happen in July. Despite the rough start we were both grateful to have attended this workshop. Veronica thought it would be nice if we both shared our experiences in an informal conversational style. Dan: What was your favorite part of the workshop and why? Veronica: I liked the “wheels”, because it felt good…and the Crane-neck and the Turtle-neck exercises. Dan: Do you mean Turning the Water Wheel? Veronica: Yes. Turning the Water Wheel, Crane-neck, and Turtle-neck all helped undo the tightness in my spine. On the first day, when we were doing crane-neck, then turtle-neck, with spinal rocking in between sets, the chronic ache in my right shoulder was flaring up. This is a common problem spot for me, it’s where all my stress goes. I felt a little worried that it would get worse and I wouldn’t want to finish the workshop, but the next day the pain was totally gone. On the second day, Master Chia talked about how the qi will go to a problem spot like that and it will hurt, but it’s because that spot is being healed. Turning the Water Wheel is an exercise I want to do everyday. When I take the time to turn the wheels, I have a noticeable increase in energy for the rest of my day. After doing qigong for 8 hours a day on Saturday and Sunday, I had plenty of energy for the whole week. Dan: I really like the principle of Turning the Water Wheel in that you can harness your sexual arousal, multiply it, then energize other energy centers in your body, such as your heart or brain. Plus the rhythmical motion feels good on the spine. Veronica: Yea, in the workshop I didn’t really feel the sexual arousal part, but just the motion of the exercise felt really good for my spine and my shoulders. I still sensed some tingling of energy moving through my different “wheels”, too. When I practice this at home, I would describe it more like an energizing of my ovarian palace, not like full on arousal, and I can sense the energy moving through my body. What Mantak Chia said about how the kidneys store your life force is really interesting, too. Dan: I haven’t spent as much time on this exercise as you have. I have been exploring how to open up my Microcosmic Orbit, which you know was covered during our workshop. When I focus my energy at the sperm palace and the perineum, I can feel a tingling sensation. As I keep practicing I am starting to notice more sexual arousal coming from that area that is reminiscent of my pubescent years. Thinking on this makes me wonder if most of my sexual arousal of adolescent years have become more cerebral and less from my genitals. I haven’t really thought about where sexual arousal can come from–from your mind, your genitals, or from the devil! Veronica: Well, that’s the point that Mantak Chia is making. He talks about how we are sexually stimulated by media like advertisements that want to sell things to us, and how this method works. I never had a lot of instruction in my upbringing about what to do with my sexual energy, but I had creative outlets that I could transmit that energy to. Aside from that, my sexual energy was directed against me like the way Michel Foucault suggests in The History of Sexuality, meaning my sexuality is constantly being manipulated by images and propaganda. But, to get back to qigong, and where the energy comes from, I really appreciated how Mantak addressed the serious problems that can happen if one represses their sexuality. Did he mention if the sexual energy was related to the energy that we receive from Mother Earth? Dan: I don’t know if we receive sexual energy from the Earth…Mantak did say that we are born with 100% of Original force which is given to us from the Primordial force. 50% goes to the body and can’t be used, 25% goes to the kidneys for emergency use, and 25% goes to the sexual organs which can be transformed and multiplied for other uses. I know that we can root energy from the Earth, but I don’t know if that energy is different from sexual energy. I believe that there are at least two different energies, one that is yang and the other that is yin. Veronica: I don’t remember if it was discussed at the workshop, but I’m curious if yang energy comes from Earth through our feet or root chakras and yin is the “cosmic” energy that comes down through our crowns. Master Chia said that you can take your negative energy and let it flow into Earth, and that Earth composts that bad energy, turning it into good energy. The yellow energy from the Earth, he said, flows up through your feet and is associated with health, wealth, and longevity. This correlates with what I’ve been learning through In Sacred Balance, and their nature-based, feminine spirituality philosophy. Some of the guided meditations I’ve learned through In Sacred Balance begin by visualising the golden energy of Mother Earth flowing up through the soles of the feet. I find it very rooting and centering, which is also how Turning the Water Wheel feels. This earth energy is joined by the heavenly, or cosmic energy that makes our bodies a point between Earth and Sky. Mantak Chia called the heavenly energy “the father” and says that that energy gives us answers and blessings. He then briefly talks about different types of sexual relations that result in healing. This was toward the end of the last day. He described Soul Sex for emotional balance and harmony, Physical sex for healing, building energy, and mind energy and Spiritual sex to “delete your name from book of death & add it to book of life.” Dan: Yeah there was a lot of information to digest, which lead to more questions. Veronica: So, you’re embarking on your qigong certificate training with The Professor soon. How are you feeling about that? Dan: I am excited about it. It is another step closer to the idea of becoming certified for the Universal Healing Tao system. A good part of me likes the idea of supplementing our income with teaching. I also fancy the personal enrichment and accomplishment of certification. Another aspect that I have brought up in other articles, is that it feels like life is leading me down this path, but for what end I don’t know. I figure it is a good spiritual investment that is already beneficial in so many ways. 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  1. The Gate of Heaven emanates infrared radiant energy
  2. 52 pulses develop before the heart
    1. The North Star pulse creates pulses on Earth
    2. Bruce Lipton – scientist / Taoist
  3. 434 years for North Star light to reach Earth
  4. North Star affects the pumps in the body
    1. Moonflower
    2. North Star
  5. North Star Practice (Healing Light Meditation)
  6. 3 pole stars (5,000 year cycle)
    1. Polaris (yang)
    2. Vega (yin)
    3. Thuban (neutral)
  7. 2012 tsunami tilt Earth axis 6 degrees
  8. Gnostic Christian research based on North Star
  9. “We’re getting a new boss and who cannot adapt with the new boss won’t make it”
  10. The orbit in the body affected by the North Star
  11. The pole have to change
  12. North Star & Nitrogen for proteins = combative people! Closed hearts
  13. Healing power of violet light
    1. Ultra violet biosignals
    2. Mercury burning creates violet light
  14. The Crystal Room (bai hui)
  15. Breathing into cranial & perineum diaphragm
    1. Inhale, exhale, hold (30 seconds minimum, 60 seconds maximum), commence breathing in gentle, small breaths and feel the cranium breathing
    2. When holding your breath, notice your diaphragm activate.
  16. Taking in the cosmic force. It comes to us as a spinning wheel or orbit. Energy spinning creates more energy. “When I spin my orbit I also spin my electrons”. Electrons come from oxygen, food, and cosmic force.
  17. Crane neck & turtle neck to open front and back microcosmic orbit
  18. Your gut is your battery, charge your battery! Stimulants over work your kidneys and wear them out.
  19. Your chi can thicken your aura and protect you from germs as well as change your household.
  20. The mesentery connects the intestines to the abdominal wall, this is the dan tian! Mesentery controls absorption, digestion, and elimination
  21. The Earth can take my waste/shit and turn to good energy. Yellow energy rises from the Earth, health, wealth, and longevity.
  22. The father/heaven gives blessings/answers.
  23. Sexual practice
    1. Soul Sex for emotional balance and harmony
    2. Physical sex for healing, building energy, and mind energy
    3. Spiritual sex: delete your name from book of death & add it to book of life
  24. Violet light has intelligence which is new born soul & spirit
  25. The fire that does not burn
    1. Heart fire
    2. Loving / compassionate fire
    3. Condense loving fire
  26. Chi stuck in breasts, massage to release and avoid disease, return energy to body
  27. Teenagers sexual energy book
  28. Everyone born with diff. Original / primordial force
    1. 25% stored in sexual organs
    2. 25% stored in kidney (emergency energy)
    3. 50% to become original force, for keeping you alive
  29. Original force keeps soul in body, when you die, stored energy in kidneys shoots your soul back to the source. Sexual energy is available for life force.
  30. One million dollar point (hu yin)
    1. A point of life that sends energy of the sexual area to the brain. Just in front of the anus. Press and contract. The center of the brain is connected to the uterus or prostate. Contracting and releasing the sex organs increases the blood supply & hormone circulation in the brain.
    2. Press on the hu yin and contract, breathe in, wave body up. Release point, release contraction and exhale, wave down, curving forward, round back, beginning with tail bone
    3. Orgasmic Teenagers
  31. Egg Exercise
  32. When you push down on perineum you feel crown activate. You will become aware of your uterus/ovaries and feel yourself, gently, breathing into your uterus. You will feel your uterus and Crystal Room pulse.
  33. Breast Massage: 1.5” around nipples
    1. Rub hands warm & ask for chi. Rub inwards 50 circuits then outwards 50 circuits 3 times for a total of 300 circuits.
    2. Pinch nipple & relax then spiral
    3. Milk line (8 nodes) connects all glands
      1. Humans used to have 8 breasts!
  34. Do the uterus contraction everyday to have healthy menstruation
  35. Mysterious gate (skete) female prostate (g spot) source of female ejaculation (ambrosia)
  36. Sexual organ detox massage
  37. Orgasmic woman:
    1. Orgasism:
      1. Clitorus
      2. Mysterious gate
      3. Uterus
    2. Contract uterus + breast massage
    3. Egg: you can use dental floss. Squeeze & pull. With fishing weight, move egg up & down squeezing. Training pubic floor power
      1. Jade can stock chi
  38. Orgasmic man:
    1. Stretch penis
    2. Rub from base to gland 50 times everyday contract prostrate 50 times then rest.
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  1. I like his life perspectives which are funny yet true
    • Dragon tail fart thing
    • Coca-cola burping
  2. Tree: falling w/o falling
  3. Spinal breathing
  4. Inner Smile
  5. Love vibration = love + sexual energy
  6. Tai chi Spinning
    • Inhale & contract perineum
    • Exhale & relax
  7. Northstar practice (Healing Light Meditation)
    • Northstar is the key to our Earth (yang star)
    • Vega is the new boss (yin star)
    • Microcosmic Orbit is affected by the boss star
      • It affects our pulse and energy
    • Thuban is the neutral star
    • Ultraviolet bio signals ‘ride’ on the spirals of DNA
    • Spleen captures yellow light
  8. Microcosmic Orbit
    • Infinity (the sign) warm/past small orbit
    • Eternity (8 sign) cold/future large orbit
  9. Mesentery organ directs absorption, digestion, and elimination
    • Was explained that it acted as the brain for the digestive system
  10. The Six Healing Sounds
    • Lungs
    • Kidneys
    • Liver
    • Heart
    • Spleen
    • Triple warmer
  11. Taoist Supreme Inner Sexual Practice
    • Soul sex
    • Spiritual sex
  12. Achemical light / Holy fire (Holy Spirit?) = Violet light + fire to transform sexual energy.
  13. Condense the fire:
    • Heart fire
    • Kidney fire
    • Tan tien fire
  14. Massage breast / testicales
  15. Love vibration brings these down:
    • Soul sex
    • Spirit sex
    • Primordial force
  16. We are born w/ 100% of Original force, which is provided by the Primordial force.
    • 25% to the sexual organs which can be used. You can transform this energy and multiply it.
    • 25% to the kidneys which is for emergency use.
    • 50% to the original force in the body, but can’t be used.
  17. Turning the Water Wheel practice
    • Move the sexual arousal energy to the tan tien, to the heart, then to the head.
  18. Million Dollar Point (Hui Yean) is yin energy which can’t be captured.
    • Press, contract, and massage everyday
    • Prostrate gland / Uterus orgasim
    • Water captures chi, but saliva captures a lot more
    • Always end with bringing the chi down to the tan tien. Heart and brain cannot store chi, but can radiate it out.
  19. Uterus & Scrotum compression
    • Breath into your uterus / prostate gland
      • The uterus and prostate gland connects to the center of the brain
    • Crane breathing
      • Rocking on your sit bones will move the rest of the body
    • Perineum breathing
      • Inhale, hold & push the energy down to the perineum, contract, relax
  20. Breast / testicle massage
    • Tessticle massage goes to my kidneys
    • Breast massage goes to the milk lines
      • 9 flowers (Eastern)
      • Milk line (Western)
  21. Multiorgasmic Women
    • Clitorus (1st gate)
    • Mysterious gate / g-spot (2nd gate)
      • Female prostate
      • Ejaculation (ambrosia)
    • Uterus (3rd gate)
    • Jade egg
      • Use dental floss
      • Can absorb the chi and gives it back
  22. Multiorgasmic Man
    • Stretch the penis
      • Oil up and rub the penis base to the head (50x)
      • Contract the prostate gland (50x)
      • Make sure the brain is activated
    • Chi Kung for prostate
    • The Recipes of Priceless Gold States
      • Men who are forty leak once every 16 days
      • Men who are 50 leak once every 21 days
      • Men who are 60 leak once every 0 days
    • 8 shallow (screw technique) 1 deep
    • Arousal & love, stop, relax, guide energy to kidneys
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