Kham Rel - Tao Yin Han & the Six Healing Sounds: Qigong Kung Luohan (First Section Book 1)

INDEX

Warning,

My appreciation,

Forward,

Chapter One ,

The Luohan style,

Flow of Qi,

Kung Luohan key aspects,

Crest & Valleys,

The Six Healing Sounds,

The relevance of deep breathe,

Chapter Two ,

Getting ready for practice,

Practical recommendations,

Chapter Three ,

Tao Yin Han (Kung Luohan First Section),

Supplementary movements,

Final notes,

Is Qigong an art?

WARNING

This fresher version of my first book Chi Kung Luohan makes its content even easier to understand and practice. The original text has now been enlarged and thus, divided into three volumes. This first volume incorporates more information related to the Taoist tradition and the seven exercises of the Tao Yin Han style, which represent the first section of the Kung Luohan , while the second volume presents more detailed information about the Ba Duan Jin style or second section of the Kung Luohan style and its eleven exercises. This way the reader can concentrate entirely on learning and practicing one section at a time, both complementing the Kung Luohan Taoist style.

The third volume of this series is about Tui Na the therapeutic massage, which is an integral part of a thorough practice of Kung Luohan .

On the other hand, I am seeking to provide the reader with more detailed information on each particular topic. Thus, I have removed any information not related to this Taoist style, leaving only, those subjects related to the complementing styles.

Since the entire Kung Luohan routine is comprised of eighteen exercises plus the Tui Na , which have resulted to have certain degree of complexity for the hectic western mind, thus, I have divided it into the three complementing sections. More graphics have been added to this newer version making all the exercises along with their explanation more fluid and easy to comprehend.

The first book was written expecting to provide a clear view of the movements, stances and flow of the routine and to educate the reader about Chi Kung in more general terms. If you have the first edition of this book, you do not need to get this newer version, however, if you get it you will find that this presentation has added a more visual explanation.

The reason why I have written this new version, obeys to the fact that many of my students have asked me to make this styles teaching method more accessible and more visually graphic if possible. This is the reason behind this approach.

I hope you find fluid and informative this fresher format and my way of explaining the exercises. Please feel free to visit our Website where you can find photographs and videos of each section.

I also take this opportunity to share with my readers that my book Cultivating Mindfulness is an integral part of my teachings. Therefore, the book is absolutely compatible with this and the rest of my works.

In fact, I strongly recommend all my Chi Kung students to study said material, which is informative and transformative, and particularly those students who are adopting these teachings to cultivate their nature and character.

Khamrel.

MY APPRECIATION

To my readers for having shared with me their particular interests and needs.

This book is the result of such interests and needs. They asked me to lighten up the first version of Chi Kung Luohan , making it more accessible and documented with more graphics.

Those requests have been sought to be fulfilled and I look forward to hearing from them about this material, which I strongly believe it will provide students of Qigong with clearer textual and graphic explanations.

Keep practicing your Kung Luohan routine everyday with enthusiasm and seriousness. Your body and your mind will appreciate your commitment.

Khamrel.

FORWARD

Since I wrote the first version of this topic some years ago many things have happened. In terms of my teaching of this beautiful and somehow challenging art, I have concluded that the people who find these teachings and make them theirs, they change the way they live their everyday lives. Qigong is a transformative practice that relates to practitioners mind-character, body-nature and spirit-consciousness. But only serious, committed and disciplined students, adepts and Cultivators benefit from the treasured gifts Qigong has for those who embrace its learning.

Moving into other realms, I have written other books, which have been real challenges since the more one commits to the teaching and learning of this ancient Art, more responsibilities arise and with them our life as adepts and cultivators changes drastically. Cultivating this art is a serious business that cannot be taken for granted. Cultivating our character, our body and our consciousness transcends all we know as ordinary. While ordinary life is what most people know in terms of thinking, feeling, and doing through the waking state of mind.

On the other hand, cultivating is a totally different matter. Cultivation takes you away from ordinariness, centering your consciousness in more subtle realities, which are also here with us, but unseen to the untrained eye. Life then, becomes a real adventure. An adventure that modifies all we know, and which aims toward new horizons. It is an adventure that takes place wherever you are regardless of circumstances in your life. It is very personal, intimate and challenging since it requires your full attention, your unrestricted awareness and committed discipline. How many people you know who are capable of delivering such a commitment to learning?

Throughout my teaching experience I also have come to understand what Master Ann Liang told me once Chi Kung is not for everyone. She meant that many people come and go easily, particularly if they think this is some kind of easy exercise, which promises to improve their health or to give them some supernatural powers. Many people seem to be interested and find ways to learn and practice, although reasons vary, some are somehow superficial, while others are serious.

In my experience I have seen very talented students and some practitioners go astray for not having a clear understanding of this inner urge for learning, taking all kinds of wicked paths. Also, I have seen students and practitioners developing strong attachments to their practices, transforming their minds in mirrors of affections and dislikes, thus, becoming egotistic and arrogant, unable to distinguish their mental entanglements. However, there are a few students who become true adepts of Chi Kung , who seek for assistance and guidance from other students, adepts, and masters, or if they do not find someone around they find the way to rely on their meditation, which always is a superior way.

Have you asked yourself what kind of student are you? What degree of commitment are you willing to put into this learning process? What is burning within your mind and heart, seeking to come out?

Khamrel.

CHAPTER ONE

THE LUOHAN STYLE

Records and tradition tell us that Siddhartha Gautama Sakyamuni , the Buddha , taught the Luohan style originally when he entered into Chinese territories some 500 years before the current era. If this is the case then, the Luohan style has a Buddhist connotation as well. So, why is it said that this Qigong is a Taoist style? Buddhist and Taoist traditions possess similar cultivation methods, both teach that a higher state of consciousness can be achieved through the practice of cultivation (meditation, detachment and care for the body). However, in terms of physical practices the Buddhist doctrines teach that the body-mind needs to be cleansed, purified and transformed. For that purpose what does Taoism teaches? Guess what? Just the same, therefore, where are the differences? The main differences lay on the type of physical and mental approach to natures cultivation. That is why there are Traditions!