212. Qigong & the Red Jade Pendant (☯ another 5 months)
The Way through Baguazhang - 八卦掌道 - A podcast by Peter Hainzl
It's been another five months, and while 2020 is turning into a stressful year for a lot of people, I have found my own experience being something closer to boring. Okay, well maybe not totally boring: I published six books on Amazon.com, and started an international weiqi game that you can follow on Instagram as part of The Weiqi Art of War, made visual for the people who don't read or listen to anything. And then there's the virus, the wars, the riots and the protests, and all the other shenanigans... And I'm finding it still a tad bit boring. So while I ponder over this, I am putting on my new Red Jade Pendant - A red pendant with a carving of a Chinese Dragon encircling 'The Orb of Enlightenment' as I like to call it. I had actually bought it years ago at the Hong Kong Ladies Market along Tung Choi street. And then, like a lot of touristy stuff people buy, I bought it back to Sydney and stashed it away never to be seen again until just a few weeks ago. I had been wanting to wear a new pendant for some time, thou, because my other pendants are now so full of my qi, that they have become too heavy to wear. And they hurt my neck with the weight. Normally a new pendant has no discernible weight to it when worn. With the only weight being whatever it is when weighed on a scale. But after prolonged usage, its real weight becomes its physical weight plus the qi it has absorbed from me. This can be more easily understood in this way: Compare two books that look the same from the outside, with the only difference being that one is blank and the other has words and pictures in it. While the ink in the one book can be tangibly weighed on a scale, the real weight of the book will be in the meaning of what's printed. So to cling to just the physics of the physical is a limitation that could turn into a self-imposed prison. Qigong, however it is experienced, is meant to help expand the mind into new realms. How that is done, depends on what style of qigong is being practiced and who the practitioner is. It does not have to be a spiritual thing. Fucking and having multiple orgasms can be just as enlightening for some people. Having an orgasm is a form of extremely powerful qi, that can heal people provided that the intention to heal is there. For all you men, who don't believe me about that one, go and ask a woman who regularly has multiple orgasms and really listen carefully to what she has to say about it. Perhaps it might be better to not believe, because then you won't feel so inadequate.