This is my understanding: wei qi involves unconscious processes of our body. the regulation of body temperature, the exterior, digestion, protection from...
HI Dan - These are interesting observations. I would place the ying qi and wei qi in both conscious and unconscious domains. Of course, at this point, we are ...
Using the six channel pulse diagnosis method we are rolling to the radial and ulnar sides of the artery feeling for distortions in the vessel wall. Once...
Fascinating work, Dan. I see that you suggest archetypal features of Jung's structure of the psyche. Of course, Beinfeld and Korngold mixed Jungian and five...
Using pulse diagnosis, specifically Shen’s systems model, the left side alludes to the state of prenatal qi/jing; while the right side indicates the state of...
Hi Dan - Sounds like you are doing well and are in a creative spirit. Here are some of my thoughts over the years. Early experiences in Chinese medicine for me...
... From: dan johnson <flyfunktionable@...> Subject: [PulseDiagnosis] Using the eyes to Cultivate Jing To: PulseDiagnosis@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday,...
Vision is a metaphor for paying attention to reality. The original name for Bl-1 is mingmen 命門, Gate of Destiny. Ming 命 "destiny", ming...
PS-I see none of the Chinese characters I entered showed up. Yahoo is slow in the draw.....sorry for all the weird code. I posted this on my website with the...
Hi Will, Will you consider posting this with the formulas on my site? Great post! I just want to comment on the notion that "shen is the brightness in the...
Lonny and Will, Thanks for the insightful and poetic messages. With the Three Treasures... do the 1st 4 channels Lung, LI, ST, SP (earth zone) correspond to...
... In my own understanding, what you have pointed out here would be the "real" Shen. The bright light of healthy Shen that we ordinarily notice is typical...
Lonny, You wrote "When mind is really out of the way the "light coming through the eyes" is of another order entirely. This is a light that "sees through us"...
Hi Lon - I am happy to post on your site. I agree that we see with our own eyes and shen. That implied in my question, "Look in the eyes - what arises in you?...
I first encountered the notion of the hazy moon of enlightenment from Trungpa Rinpoche. Meditation practice is the heart of hazy moon. Maezumi Roshi discusses...
Jon, I like what you've written it's all interesting to consider. What I'm pointing to is a "light" that's ultimately free of physiology. I'd equate this light...
This is great dialogue, thank you everyone, commenting on the REAL Shen/ spirit , the Shen that manifests from the unconditioned mind, shining brightly...
There is the interesting experience of looking out of our eyes verses allowing it to go the other way. Allowing Life in. Steve Schachter On Jun 9, 2009, at...
Daniel - The REAL Shen spirit has material features if we are using the discussion in context of the people who originate the term and the source materials for...
The REAL Shen spirit has material features Lonny: Can we say "physical correlates"? Because the Daoist cannon is pretty clear on the non-locality of the...
Hi Lon, I prefer features, since it is suggestive of a unity state. Physical correlates is fine, it does, however suggest a dualism between spirit and body...
What do we see when our eyes are closed? Stan Brakhage, an experimental film pioneer composed moving art based on this hypnogogic vision that he saw with one...
HI John, Dan, Lon and Steve, This is great. Dan, I would love to hear more about the practices that you are using to build jing through the eyes. You present a...
Hi all,.. great conversation.. I took a class in survival training based on some Native American practices of tracking. The instructor said that animals tend...
John, did you mean to write Jing and not Shen? Our discussion with eyes has been about Shen. And, not to over step boundaries and protocals, but why are...
Steve,  I assert...  This is a great example.  You asked john, "Did you mean to write Jing and not Shen?" Our discussion with eyes has been about...
Hi Dan - Nice...taking the play along the way... Consciousness occurs partly in terms of unconscious neural patterning. Only certain features of awareness are...
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