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Light Work, HingGong--the Practice of lightness

AS A RIDER PRACTICES jump after jump with her horse, she is cultivating lightness--Hing Gong. To cultivate lightness and radiance, this is an advanced stage of Taoist inner alchemy. However, very few Taiji Quan and Qigong practitioners are aware of this crucial stage of transformation.
The reason for the neglecting Light Work is quite simple. Ignorance.
Most do not even know the existence of Light Work. Yet, as you can verify from the above photograph depicting a Taoist priest uplifting his whole body weight with four fingers. (Wudang Immortal Child qigong--caution: do not attempt to imitate the picture, you could damage your fingers quite severely.)

How does one cultivate such Light Work?
Explore by taking each step with a sense of lightness of being. The unbearable lightness of being is the sensation of experiencing the sense of radiance and uplifting quality of Light Work.

Does Taiji Quan include such Light Work?
Yes, From Master Yang Lu Chan's own biographical information, he deleting jumps and aerial kicks from the Taiji form to fit the weaken state of health of the 13th manchurian prince. In such gentrification of the Yang family Taiji form, the intrinsic training of Light Work becomes hidden. Though, as I have witness several great Taiji masters, their movement all retain the ethereal lightness like clouds floating across the blue horizon.

How does cultivate Light Work benefit my health?
As we age, our organs--especially the intestines start to sag. We begin to develop the middle age pouch which some Taiji practitioners with a sense of humor call it Qi Belly. This pouch is actually the guts spilling out like noddles of the pelvic cavity and accumulation of fatty tissues. Light Work reverses such sagging of the organs and also stimulates the flow of the seminal essence to rise up the spine into the brain. This reversal of downward spiral of aging and degeneration is the heart of Neidan, inner alchemy.

INTRIGUE? Good! Now you can begin the fun journey of investigation of Lightness of being in your daily life. LIGTHEN UP.

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