Master So, Qigong healing and the centrality of Taoism.

Master So explains that Qigong is the practical embodiment of the metaphysical precepts expressed in the “Tao Te Ching”.

The “Tao Te Ching”

“The Way and its classic virtue”.

Laozi, born 571 BCE, depicted as Daodo Tianzun

Written around 6th century BC by the sage Laozi, this humble book forms the fundamental text for both philosophical and religious Taoism.

The Unity of the Yin-Yang is contained in its outer circle. The balance of its energies are evident everywhere. The force that flows through both is the universal Chi.

Recognizing this Chi, facilitating and channeling its energy is the goal of Qigong. The Tao is the metaphysical foundation, the glue of this discipline that evolved over several millennium into Qigong. Understanding the limits of our own capabilities govern our relationship with it.

Chapter 14  from the Tao Te Ching

Look at it, it cannot be seen
It is called colorless
Listen to it, it cannot be heard
It is called noiseless
Reach for it, it cannot be held
It is called formless
These three cannot be completely unraveled
So they are combined into one

Above it, not bright
Below it, not dark
Continuing endlessly, cannot be named
It returns back into nothingness
Thus it is called the form of the formless
The image of the imageless
This is called enigmatic
Confront it, its front cannot be seen
Follow it, its back cannot be seen

Source: www.Taoism.net and Tao Te Ching: Annotated & Explained, published by SkyLight Paths in 2006.

Laozi

Qigong practices embody the way of the Tao.

In the Tao te Ching, Laozi explains that beings (or phenomena) that are wholly in harmony with the Tao behave in a completely natural, uncontrived way. The goal of spiritual practice for the human being is, according to Laozi, the attainment of this purely natural way of behaving, as when the planets revolve around the sun. The planets effortlessly do this revolving without any sort of control, force, or attempt to revolve themselves, instead engaging in effortless and spontaneous movement.
Source: wikipedia entry: Wu Wei 

Master So, demonstrates the Basic Qigong Thrust movement activating the Thrust Channel by deep breathing technique.

Videoed at The YMCA of Austin, March 2015