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    There's a new post on notes.lucid24.org that anyone who practices qigong or taiji will recognize. Around the turn of the millennium I spent more than a year taking every yoga class I could find,many with credentialed teachers who had trained for months under respected gurus in India.The deepest experience of all came from an aerobics instructor teaching yoga at an ordinary American gym,the one the lineage teachers rolled their eyes…

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    A young student goes looking for the best doctor in the land. Three brothers, three levels of skill — and the fame runs exactly backwards.

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    This whole Dharma [principle] runs on two faculties working together: sati and sampajāno. Sati is remembering — remembering and applying the Dharma, and here specifically, remembering to apply right effort balanced against the rule of finishing diminish. It's the faculty that keeps the Dharma [principle] itself in mind, so you don't drift through a task on autopilot. Sampajāno is lucid discerning — the moment-to-moment clarity/wisdom that lets you actually read…

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    Qigong Gorilla has migrated from his old home at qigor.blogspot.com to a new WordPress home right here at qigor.lucid24.org. One upgrade over Blogger: you can now subscribe by email and get new posts delivered to your inbox. Sign up here: No need to worry about inbox overload — posts will be occasional, averaging less than one a week.

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