Hsiao Guang (Xiao-guang) - Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness: Recognizing the Cult of Qi-Gong for What It Is

Breaking Through the Barriers of Darkness:Recognizing the Cult of Qigong for What It Is

by Hsiao Guang

Translated by Leanne Luo

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Translators Notes. 4

Introduction 5

1. A CULT IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA: QIGONG. 8

DEFINITION OF QIGONG.. 8

1.1 PRELUDE THE APPEARANCE OF MARTIAL ARTS.. 9

1.2. THE SPROUTING OF QIGONG 10

1.3. THE CLIMAX OF QIGONG. 13

1.3.1 REPRESENTATIVE PERSONNEL OF QIGONG. 13

1.3.2. THE ZEAL OF PRACTITIONERS... 15

1.3.3 THE SPREADING OF QIGONG.. 16

1.3.4. THE EBB OF QIGONG. 17

2. MY EXPERIENCE WITH QIGONG... 20

2.1. MY DEBUT IN QIGONG FIELD. 20

2.2. RISING TO A HIGHER LEVEL... 21

2.3. THE INITIAL SUCCESS OF MY GONG CAREER. 24

2.4. PILGRIMAGE 28

2.5. AS MY HEART WILLS. 29

2.6. HEADING FOR MY DOOM. 31

2.7. A HOPELESS LAMB 34

3. KNOWING JESUS... 38

3.1. STORY OF MY GRANDMA 38

3.2. DARKNESS BEFORE DAYBREAK... 39

3.3. THE APPEARING OF MORNING STARS... 40

3.4. THE LONGEST NIGHT 41

3.5. WHO AM I.. 46

3.6. THE TASTE OF HEAVEN... 49

3.7. COUNTERATTACK ON QIGONG. 52

4. THE PRINCIPLES AND ESSENCE OF QIGONG.. 56

4.1. WHY DO PEOPLE BELIEVE IN QIGONG... 56

4.1.1. PRACTICAL QIGONG.. 58

4.1.2. FUNCTIONS OF QIGONG FOR PERFORMANCE. 59

4.2. METHODS AND PRINCIPLES OF VARIOUS GONGS. 60

4.2.1. ELEMENTARY GONG METHODS. 62

4.2.1.1. ANALYSIS OF PRINCIPLES. 62

4.2.2. INTERMEDIATE GONG METHODS.. 62

4.2.2.1. ANALYSIS OF PRINCIPLES. 62

4.2.3. SENIOR GONG METHOD... 63

4.2.3.1. ANALYSIS OF PRINCIPLES. 63

4.2.4. SPONTANEOUS QIGONG PHENOMENA... 63

4.2.5. THE PRINCIPLES AND ESSENCE OF SPONTANEOUS GONG 64

4.2.6. THE PRINCIPLES AND ESSENCE OF GONG-EMITTING AUDIOTAPES AND

INFORMATION OBJECTS..... 64

4.2.7. PRINCIPLES AND ESSENCE OF COSMIC LANGUAGE. 65

4.2.8. THE PRINCIPLES AND ESSENCE OF "QI-EMITTING" LECTURES.. 66

4.2.9. THE PRINCIPLES AND ESSENCE OF REMOTE SENSING, PERSPECTIVE, REMOTE PERCEPTION AND FORETELLING (FUTURE-TELLING). 66

4.2.10. THE PRINCIPLES AND ESSENCE OF LONG-DISTANCE GONG EMITTING... 67

4.2.11. THE PRINCIPLES AND ESSENCE OF DIVINATION PRACTICE, PALMISTRY, AND FENGSHUI.. 67

4.3. THE PRINCIPLES AND ESSENCE OF MARTIAL ARTS, TAIJIQUAN AND CHINESE

MEDICINE.. 69

4.3.1 THE PRINCIPLES AND ESSENCE OF THE MARTIAL ARTS.. 70

4.3.2. THE PRINCIPLES AND ESSENCE OF TAIJIQUAN... 70

4.3.3. THE PRINCIPLES AND ESSENCE OF CHINESE MEDICINE. 71

4.3.4. YOGA FROM INDIA.. 71

4.3.5. THE TIBETAN GONG METHOD.... 72

4.3.6. SORCERESSES IN THE COUNTRYSIDE... 72

5. QIGONG'S RELATIONSHIP WITH CONFUCIANISM, BUDDHISM AND TAOISM 74

5.1. THE BASIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN QIGONG AND CONFUCIANISM, BUDDHISM

AND TAOISM CONFUCIANISM, BUDDHISM AND TAOISM ARE SHORTENED IN

CHINESE AS RU SHI TAO. 74

5.2. QIGONG AND CONFUCIANISM... 76

5.3. QIGONG AND BUDDHISM. 78

5.4. QIGONG AND TAOISM... 80

5.5. A BRIEF SUMMARY: THE SCHEME OF THE DEVIL... 84

6. THE DANGERS OF QIGONG 87

6.1. THE DANGER OF QIGONG TO ITS PRACTITIONERS... 87

6.1.1. THE DANGEROUS INFLUENCE OF QIGONG ON ITS PRACTITIONER'S

WORLDVIEW... 87

6.1.2. HARMS TO THE PRACTITIONER'S VIEW OF LIFE. 88

6.1.3. THE HARM OF QIGONG TO THE PRACTITIONERS' MORAL VALUES.. 89

6.1.4. THE HARM OF QIGONG TO THE PRACTITIONERS' CHARACTER AND

PERSONAL QUALITIES 89

6.1.5. THE HARM OF QIGONG TO THE PRACTITIONERS' SOULS... 91

6.1.6. HARM BY QIGONG TO THE PRACTITIONER'S CONSCIOUSNESS AND MODE

OF THINKING... 91

6.1.7. HARM BY QIGONG TO THE PRACTICAL LIVES OF ITS PRACTITIONERS.. 92

6.2. THE DANGER OF QIGONG TO SOCIETY..... 94

7. THE FORUM OF QIGONG AND CHRISTIANITY.. 96

8. HOW TO OVERCOME THE INTERFERENCE OF THE EVIL SPIRITS.... 109

8.1. WHAT IS THE INTERFERENCE OF EVIL SPIRITS.. 109

8.2. INVISIBLE WAR 111

8.2.1. THE FIRST ENCOUNTER... 111

8.2.2. PRAYING FOR QIGONG MASTERS. 112

8.2.3. A STORY ON THE TRAIN... 114

8.2.4. THE DEVIL DOES NOT BELIEVE IN TEARS.. 114

8.2.5. PROCLAIMING VICTORY OVER EVIL SPIRITS 120

8.3. DETAILED METHODS FOR OVERCOMING THE INTERFERENCE OF EVIL SPIRITS 121

8.4. SUGGESTIONS FOR SPIRITUAL SCIENCE.. 124

9. THE DARK NIGHT IS ALMOST OVER AND THE DAY IS BREAKING 127

9.1. THE FIRE OF TRUTH.. 127

9.2. THE IMPORTANCE OF THE CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT. 129

9.3. THE SEASON OF THE HARVEST 131

Translator's Notes

For translations of the excerpts from Tao Te Ching, I have consulted Dr. John C.H. Wu's and Thomas Cleary's translations as seen in Lao Tzu: Tao Teh Ching (New York: St. John's University Press, 1961) and The Essential Tao: An Initiation into the Heart of Taoism throughthe Authentic Tao Te Ching and the Inner teachings of Chuang Tzu (New York: Harper-Collins Publishers, 1993).

I myself am responsible for any mistakes that may appear in my translation and corrections are greatly welcomed and appreciated!

Introduction

Chinese people have lived on their vast piece of desolate and pitiful land for thousands of years. People come and go, struggling with survival, producing a complex culture, a culture doomed to fail, a culture lacking the meaning of life. Modern civilization impinges upon Chinese traditional culture relentlessly, exposing its fallacy, fragility and potentialities for misleading. Over the past century, this impingement seems to have been carrying out a significant plan, while millions upon millions of Chinese are still worshipping their fallacious culture, living only in order to meet with the ending of their lives.

During their several thousand of years of history, the Chinese have welcomed into their culture many different religions, which have produced a complex cultural formation. It seems that, compared with other nations, the Chinese are less fortunate for they have incorporated many fallacious religions and cultures, among which are mainly Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. Up to today, the Chinese are still struggling helplessly with these cultural elements, taking them to be their precious traditional assets handed down from their ancestors. However, in fact, it is exactly these false religious cultures that have brought the Chinese incessant calamities.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, traditional religions seem to have died out, and it also seems that most Chinese believe in Communist atheism (this is also a religious belief). They think they have found out that the world is without any answers or any reasons. Everything comes out of coincidence, and the only meaning of life is to maintain biological life and to set up the communist system.

But since the 1980s, China has made a new beginning unlike anything in previous Chinese history. A brand new era has begun its prelude. The characteristics of this period are as follows:

A religion that was to last only briefly in Chinese history--Communism began to decline in people's hearts. For decades it had shown itself to people for what it is. Very soon, Chinese traditional religions spread all over China, taking the country areas as a beachhead. The revival of Confucianism and Buddhism seemed to satisfy the unquenchable thirst of people who had just traversed the desert of atheism. People dug out the long-buried traditional religions to meet the needs of their souls, for they indeed could not live on without any beliefs.

Western culture swept over China with an irresistible force. This phenomenon is well known as "peaceful transformation." This attack by the Western culture took mainly the following three forms: