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- What we now call qigong was not actually named qigong.
It originally came from the cultivation way practiced singly by ancient
Chinese practitioners or religious cultivation. You would never find the
term "qigong" in all the texts of Internal Alchemy (), Tao Tsang
() or the Tripitaka (). Qigong existed long before religions came into
being. It has lived through a period when religions were in embryo at the
stage of the development of this human civilization. Only after the appearance
of religions was it coloured with those religions to some extent. Qigong
was initially called the Great Cultivation Way of Buddha Dharma () or the
Great Cultivation Way of Tao (). And there were other names such as: Nine
fold Internal Alchemy (), the Way of Arhat () and the Dhyana of Vajra ().
Now we call it "qigong" in order to fit the consciousness of
contemporary people and make it easier to be popularized. As a matter of
fact, it is inherently the Chinese way of cultivating the human body.
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- Qigong is not an invention of this cycle of mankind.
Its history goes back to the remote past. Then when did it come into being?
Some claim it has a history of 3000 years and became popular in the Tang
Dynasty. Others say it has a history of 5000 years and is as old as the
Chinese culture. Still others believe it should be 7000 years old according
to archaeological finds. I hold qigong was not created by modern humans,
but is prehistoric culture. People who possess supernormal capabilities
() have found that the universe in which we now live is a reconstructed
entity after nine catastrophic explosions. The planet we inhabit has already
experienced destruction many times. When a new planet was born, mankind
began to multiply again. Now we have discovered a lot of things which are
beyond our modern civilization. According to Darwin's theory of evolution,
men evolved from apes. The history of civilization is estimated to be no
more than l0000 years. However, archaeological findings reveal that the
frescoes discovered in a stone cave of the Alps date back to 250000 years
with remarkable artistic value unmatched by contemporary works. In the
museum of National University of Peru, there is a large rock in which is
engraved a human figure observing celestial bodies through a telescope
in his hands. This human figure dates back to over 30000 years. It is known
that Galileo devised the telescope with 30 powers in l609, some three hundred
Years from now, How could there be a telescope 30000 years ago? A rod of
iron in India reaches above 99% iron purity, Such high purity of iron is
beyond the modern smelting technology. Who was it that created that civilization?
How could human beings have possibly produced such things at a time when
they themselves might have been micro-organisms? Such discoveries have
drawn the attention from scientists in all countries in the world. These
phenomena are called prehistoric cultures", because no satisfactory
explanation has ever been offered to them.
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- The scientific level varies from cycle to cycle. The
scientific level in some cycles was very high, even higher than that of
our modern mankind. But those civilizations have been destroyed. Therefore
I say qigong is a prehistoric culture. It was not invented or created,
but was discovered and perfected by modern people.
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- Qigong is not found in China alone. It also exists in
other countries. In some western countries like the United States and England
it is called "magic art" rather than "qigong". In America
there is a magician, who is actually a master of supernatural powers. Once
he performed walking through the Great Wall. While he was doing so, he
covered himself with a white sheet of cloth propped up against the wall.
Why did he do that? By doing so, many people would want to see and believe
that he was performing the magic. He had to perform this way because he
knew that there were so many well-accomplished qigong masters in China,
and he was afraid of being interfered with. Therefore he covered himself
with a piece of white cloth before he was walking into the wall. When coming
out, he held out a hand to push up the sheet and then walked out of it.
Just as a Chinese saying goes: "An expert sees the knack of a trick
while a layman just watches the performance." As a result, the audience
were led to believe he was performing a magic. The reason why the Westerners
call these paranormal capabilities "magic" is just that they
do not use them to cultivate their bodies but to exhibit miracles; and
performances for entertainment. Therefore, at a low level. qigong serves
to improve one's physical conditions and heal diseases for better health.
At a high level, it aims to cultivate one's Benti ( True Being).
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