第十三章 捧气贯顶法Dì shísān zhāng Pěng Qì Guàn Dǐng FǎChapter 13 Lift Qi Up, Pour Qi Down 捧气贯顶法，属知能动功的外混元阶段，练膜络之气。 The method of holding the Qi and penetrating the top of the head belongs to the external Hunyuan stage of Zhineng Dynamic Qigong, and it practices the Qi of the membrane network. 芬气贯顶法买求意与气合，以意引气。通过姿势的开合和意念引导的配合，引动内气外放，外气内收，从而杨通人与大自然中混元气的联系。其功效如下： The Fenqi Guanding method seeks to combine… Continue reading Exploring the Profundities of Qigong Chapter 13
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Exploring the Profundities of Qigong Chapter 14
第＋四章 三心并站庄 Chapter 14 Three Centers Merge Standing Method 三心并站庄是智能动功外棍元阶段以意引气（意念外放、和大自然融为一休）到内混元阶段以形引气（神与自己的 “形”合、不外放）的过渡阶段。 The Three Hearts Standing Together is the transition stage from the external stick stage of intelligent dynamic exercise where the mind is used to guide the Qi (the mind is released outward and becomes one with nature) to the internal mixed stage where the form is… Continue reading Exploring the Profundities of Qigong Chapter 14
Exploring the Profundities of Qigong Chapter 15
第十五章 形 神 庄Dì Shíwǔ Zhāng Xíng Shén ZhuāngChapter 15 Body and Mind Method 形神庄属智能动功的内混元阶段，练经脉之气。 Body and Mind Method belongs to the inner Hun Yuan stage of intelligent dynamic exercises, which trains the Qi in the meridians. 这套动功，是将我演练多年的“鹤舞松形净意功”的简要式子酌加整理而成。 Zhè tào dòng gōng, shì jiāng wǒ yǎnliàn duōnián de “hè wǔ sōng xíng jìng yì gōng” de… Continue reading Exploring the Profundities of Qigong Chapter 15
Exploring the Profundities of Qigong Chapter 16
第十六章 简易功法Chapter 16 Simple Exercises 气功之属子“道”，还是流于“术”，关健在于能否理、法两攘，功、德并进。 Whether Qigong belongs to the category of “Tao” or “technique” depends on whether it can combine theory and method, and whether it can make progress in both merit and virtue. 若不达其理，不修其德，仅练其法，则流于术。 If one does not understand the principles, does not cultivate virtues, but only practices the methods, then it will become… Continue reading Exploring the Profundities of Qigong Chapter 16
Unscientific Concluding Methodology
Unscientific Concluding Methodology I had five “collaborators” in his project: Google Translator, DeepL Translator, Baidu Translator, Wenlin Software, and Pleco Software. My source copy for this text is a PDF document with pictures of the pages rather than editable text. For reference, I have placed page numbers as they are in my source PDF document:… Continue reading Unscientific Concluding Methodology
Sound Logic
Click on the Play Button below to hear my poem, “Sound Logic,” read aloud. “Sound Logic” is one of 81 poems in my new book, The Logic of Rhyme, available on Amazon. Sound Logic A poem may be likened to a syllogism in sound,Wherein homophonic premises are initially found,And so arranged, by the ear, and,… Continue reading Sound Logic
Sunday Morning
Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of this poem. A Sunday Morning Walk in Fog Once upon a rhyme, in clandestine fogAt mild morning-time, a silence sublimeSo enchants the effervescing ambient air That every creature I see seems at prayer. A headstand beetle on the narrow winding pathPuts brow to ground and… Continue reading Sunday Morning
Aubade (or Morning Song)
Click on the Play button to hear the poem read aoud. Aubade 01(or Morning Song) There is a light seldom seen,In morning-time, that is golden green;It can wisp along the horizon and suffuseThe sky with tints of red and orange hues,And in the sky overhead a rhapsody of blues,Colors arising as from an artist’s palette,Flowing… Continue reading Aubade (or Morning Song)
Rainbow
Click on the Play Button below to hear a reading of my poem, “Rainbow: The Darkness and the Light.” RainbowThe Darkness and the Light A rainbow at its rootIs black as sootImpalpable and muteAs from a lofty butteDay from darkness softly breaksWith myriad colors iridescent as fruit. A rainbow’s two vectors end not at the… Continue reading Rainbow
Effervescense
Click on the Play Button to hear a reading of my poem, “Effervescence.” Effervescence Effervescence,As if to tease,Is a wordBubble-ing over with e’s. It ends and begins with e,E’s at stem and stern,And three e’en between,E’s appearing in precise returns. E’s total numbers five, and, by fate,Doubly divided and spaced evenlyBy four sets of consonants… Continue reading Effervescense