Innerqi

The five Elements of chinese Wuxing theory are Water, Fire, Earth, Metal and Wood. To every Xing we have an animal. The tortois for Water, Crane for fire, Snake is earth, Tiger for metal and Dragon for wood. The movements regulate your inner Qi, massage the organs and calms the nervous system. I performed the Five Animals at the Parque Taoro in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife where we also have a workshop every february. This is for my students to remember the movements, it has not been produced for commercial purposes. For workshops visit my website wudang-dao.com Music: 佛门钟声 (Buddha Bells) I have no rights on this music.

by Zhou Xuan Yun Just recently, I received an e-mail asking an interesting question: “How do you know if someone calling himself a Daoist priest is genuinely a Daoist priest. Is there any way to check?” As Daoism grows in popularity, some people may call themselves a Daoist priest as a way of marketing their business. So how can you tell if their claim is true? Actually, the qualities that you should look for in a Daoist priest are the same as other teachers. If you wanted to learn medicine, who would you want as your teacher? 1. Someone who has a relationship with hospitals and other doctors. 2. Someone who is still practicing medicine, or practiced medicine for a very long time. 3. Someone who believes in their craft and works to improve. These three characteristics can be summed up as lineage, practice, and faith. Read more

Angela Cooper aus Wien hat mit ihren Schülerinnen und Schülern einen Fragenkatalog erarbeitet. Wieso, weshalb, warum? Die meisten Fragen hab ich beantwortet, einige ausführlich, einige knapp, sehr knapp. Aber lies selbst.

Nobody understands what consciousness is or how it works. Nobody understands quantum mechanics either. Could that be more than coincidence? By Philip Ball16 February 2017 "I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem." The American physicist Richard Feynman said this about the notorious puzzles and paradoxes of quantum mechanics, the theory physicists use to describe the tiniest objects in the Universe. But he might as well have been talking about the equally knotty problem of consciousness. Some scientists think we already understand what consciousness is, or that it is a mere illusion. But many others feel we have not grasped where consciousness comes from at all. The perennial puzzle of consciousness has even led some researchers to invoke quantum physics to explain it. That notion has always been met with skepticism, which is not surprising: it does not sound wise to explain...

byFabrizio Pregadio Daoist hagiographic works depict the so-called “immortals” (xianren) as extraordinary human beings endowed with several powers, the most important of which is the ability to reach a life span of indefinite length with their ordinary bodies. When we look at other sources belonging to the traditions that evolved during the history of Daoism, a different picture emerges. These sources show that adepts make use of the physical body in order to generate a new person (shen) that is not subject to death.Among others, early Daoist works (ca. 2nd-6th centuries) describe two main ways to attain immortality. The first is by going through a “simulated death” followed by the refining of the physical body, which then serves as a support for adepts to continue their practices.  The second way consists in generating an inner “embryo” that is unaffected by death, and is the seed of one’s rebirth as an immortal.Internal Alchemy (Neidan), which developed from ca. 700, inhe...

Quelle: Contra Magazin in Natur & Umwelt , Wissen & Technik 8. Mai 2016 Es ist ein Schreckensszenario für die Bewohner der Algarve. Sie brauchen Unterstützung gegen die übermächtige Frackinglobby und die Ölkonzerne. Die Vorgängerregierung hat ihnen eine Woche vor den Wahlen noch Rechte übertragen, aus der die jetzige Regierung nicht ohne hohe Abfindungen zu zahlen wieder herauskommen kann. Von Rui Filipe Gutschmidt Luisa Schmidt, Soziologin der Universität Lissabon und Umweltaktivistin, schrieb im „Expresso“: „Für die, die noch nicht aufgewacht sind, lassen wir hier einen Weckruf. Allein schon an der Algarve wurden einige Verträge zur Durchführung von Probebohrungen nach Öl und Gas unterzeichnet. Es ist eine Aussaat für Bohrtürme vor den Stränden der Algarve und der Westküste. Andere Bohrtürme für Fracking werden im Hinterland – der Serra – und im Alentejo wachsen. (…) Die Verträge, die mit der Vorgängerregierung eine Woche vor den Wahlen, ausgehandelt wurden, beinhalten Schwe...