. 气功: Origins
The Chinese Qigong draws on many sources:
-Taoist philosophy;
-The archaeological remains of the tomb of Ma-Wang-Dui;
-The Huang-Di Nei-Jing-or "Treaty of Medicine of the Yellow Emperor";
-L 'Taoist Alchemy;
Necromancy-the Tao, which is a Chinese form of black magic;
Shamanism-Manchurian;
-Confucianism;
-The Tibetan Bonismo (native religion previous to Vajrayana Buddhism);
Chan-Buddhism, founded by Bodhidharma to the Shaolin Temple;
Folk-Tradition Chinese medicine, which includes the famous physician Hua exercises of animal-to,
L'a rcaica-gymnastics of the Dao-Yin,
- The martial arts.
For thousands of years sages and masters have studied qi or prana (in Sanskrit) and its micro-and macro-cosmic cycles are shown in sapenza oldest books, the Vedas. Since the dawn of history the teachings in these sacred repositories of wisdom have been translated, synthesized and applied by different peoples, with linguistic references and expressions, conceptual and cultural traditions of their native. China 's Yi-Jing (I Ching), the "Book of Changes" (1122 BC) was probably the first book that made known to the Chinese People Qi and its different functional in nature and in man. It explains that the energy of nature includes "Three natural powers" (San-Cai) expressed by the three Qi:
- - The Qi of heaven,
- Qi-earth and
- Qi-Man.
These three aspects of nature have strict rules and immutable constant periodic cycles. In this book the changing nature of Qi are calculated with the "Eight Trigrams" (Ba-Gua), which are derived from the 64 hexagrams. The ratio of the three powers with their natural transformations of Qi was later widely covered in the book Qi-Hua-Lun, "Theses on the variations of Qi." Understanding the rules and cycles, "Distribution of celestial time" (Tian- Shi) helps explain seasonal changes, climate, weather and other natural phenomena that demonstrate cyclicity and repeatability due to rebalance the Qi field. Among the cosmic cycles of time there are daily, monthly, yearly, those of twelve and sixty 'years. The Qi of the earth is part of the sky. Understanding the rules and structure of the earth allows us to understand the environment, growing seasons, the individual's adaptation to the environment, which establish residency (Feng Shui), the influence of the directions and many other related factors the land and known by the monks of Li-Shi and Feng-Shui-shi, geomancy masters or wind and Steel ¬ here.
General categories of Qi-gong are:
1) Therapy Fisic to health, the maintenance and treatment of specific disorders;
2) Exercises for stress management and relaxation (many Western techniques come from Qi-gong)
) e la digitopressione ( An-mo ). 3) The Therapeutic External Qi (Chi-wai-liao ago) or Contact therapeutic China, as Chinese therapeutic massage (Tui-na) and acupressure (An-mo).
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阿弥陀佛






