This secret Tai Chi for Enlightenment or Primordial Qigong form combines tai chi, feng shui, chi kung (qigong), and inner alchemy, a powerful form of Taoist meditation. It is designed to capture the "subtle breath" or chi ("qi") flow of Heaven and Earth, and fuse it into the human body. It gathers chi iinward to the core of one's being in graceful beautiful, effortless spirals. Energetically, it is the opposite of martial tai chi forms. They emit chi outwardly for self-defense or focus on manipulating an opponent's chi.
Tai Chi for Enlightenment gradually dissolves all the physical and karmic layers of tension in both your physical and Energy Body. It ultimately opens up a profound inner space inside your body, where your Original Spirit, the "face of your soul before you were born", can reveal itself. This inner space is called "wuji" (Supreme Unknown).
The design of the form incorporates every aspect of Tao theory: Yin-Yang body channels, 5 Elements vital organ and seasonal cycles, feng shui (directionology) of the 8 Trigram forces (Pakua), water and fire alchemy, the 10 Heavenly Stems and 12 Branches of the Chinese calendar, body-spirit and microcosm-macrocosm resonance, Taoist sexual-numerology, jing-chi-shen-wu stages of inner alchemy, tai chi body movement principles, Original Chi -Tai Chi -Wuji cosmology. It is truly amazing how much is packed into one tiny little form!
At the time Chang San Feng created this form, Chinese spiritual culture had elevated the science of inner alchemy to its highest peak. This secret tai chi form can be considered one of the crown jewels of China's spiritual development, the result of generations of previous Tao masters focusing deeply on developing a practical science of change. Inner alchemy is simply a way of speeding up your natural energetic evolution. Yet you don't have to understand the dynamics of internal alchemy to activate this quickening, because it is built into this tai chi form.
If you want to explore the secrets of inner alchemy I have written numerous articles about this topic. Inner alchemy is older than Lao Tzu, older than the ancient Chinese Dragon chart and Turtle Writing (magic square) from which the I Ching is derived. I did decades of research, but my greatest source was practice of the Seven Alchemy Formulas for Immortality transmitted from a Taoist hermit named One Cloud to Mantak Chia to me. These seven alchemy formulas are from the same period as Chang San Feng's secret Tai Chi form.
But most people don't need and aren't ready for that level of information or meditation skill. All they need a simple, graceful, easy to learn, easy to practice, in the body form that effortlessly does it all for you - that's Tai Chi for Enlightenment!
This Tai Chi for Enlightenment or Primordial Qigong form is so magical that almost anyone who does it - including rank beginners here in the West - has profound feelings of deep soul centering and expanded chi flow. These can best be described as enlightenment experiences. More incredible, it doesn't go away, but gets better with practice. Repeat practice of the form deepens the blissful sense of peace, the feeling of returning to your true inner self.
Who may practice it? Any age, race, sex or religious group. No previous training in any form of tai chi, chi kung, or meditation is required. Both the sick and weak as well as healthy and strong benefit from it. The amount of space needed is minimal - an area of about three feet by three feet (a square yard) is enough. Nor is it limited by the weather such as cold or hot, rainy or windy, unlike most tai chi and chi kung forms.
Although the form is designed for Enlightenment, it has many beneficial medical effects. Dr. Zhu Hui had a major clinic in China and used it to treat more than ten types of chronic diseases, especially heart diseases and high blood pressure, and for people with weak kidneys or chi deficiency.
This form is also recommended to Seniors who might injure their knees with more vigorous forms. This form puts no stress on the physical body, and uses easy weight shifts and balanced movements to activate the Energy Body. Few seniors are interested in martial applications anyway, and will find more joy and grace in these movements. Seniors are also at a time in their life when they seek completion, and this form helps to achieve a sense of internal completion.
This form is amazingly easy to learn. It is so simple to practice you literally don't even have to think. This "not thinking" state is also one of the pre-requisites to allowing your own Enlightenment process to naturally unfold!
I urge you, with all my heart, to take advantage of this rare opportunity. It also makes a wonderful gift to give someone else. You have nothing to lose, and everything to gain. You owe it to yourself to at least try the simple movements on this lovely two hour video, shot in "Nature's studio" with some of America's most beautiful mountains, waterfalls, and lakes as the backdrop. It begins with a short 15 minute practice section followed by a longer detailed instruction in the form.
Some people don't believe that they are candidates for enlightenment. Their religion may not use that word, so they may be uncomfortable with it. I use the word Enlightenment simply to evoke a feeling of natural radiance shining from within. So please use "enlightenment" as you like it. It's a spiritual concept that is self-defined. If you are uncomfortable with Tai Chi for Enlightenment, I suggest you use its other name, Primordial Qigong.
Trust that enlightenment is a gradual process, even if it has big or dramatic moments. It's not a fixed event or state defined by someone else or by some strange cult. Everyone is eligible to experience enlightenment - it's our birthright as humans. When a child first learns to tie their shoe, that is a mini-moment of enlightenment.
There are an infinite number of such moments possible. All these mini-moments can become a continuous flow of greater enlightenment. But we must initiate and support the process, or it simply won't continue to happen. Many adults sadly have given up on recovering the natural enlightenment they spontaneously felt as children. Kids feel immortal, like they are living in a timeless universe of endless discovery - because that is their actual reality! But we don't have to abandon that state!
As adults, we must keep our inner will power involved, or our natural enlightenment process may get bogged down by outer stress. Stress and trauma are just the scattering or suppression of your personal chi and spirit until you gradually lose your will to live. That's why most adults are slowly exhausted by life.They don't have a strong energetic or spiritual center that lets them bounce back.
People lack the proper tools to help them focus their chi or concentrate their spirit in one center. That leads us to seek the religion or spiritual path of our choice in the hope that a God or power beyond us will help us. Tai Chi for Enlightenment is compatible with any religious belief.
People used to be worried that yoga was a weird eastern religion, and now its is commonly taught in Christian church centers. Some Western fundamentalists have tried to demonize Taoism, but that will also fade away as people learn about spiritual science. Taoists in China accept all religions as carrying valid truth for their believers. Tao is neutral and natural. It is simply the "Way" our inner self unfolds. In China it is common to hear a Buddhist or a Confucianist to say that they follow the Tao.
Simply practicing Tai Chi for Enlightenment focuses your inner will to be enlightened. We could use religious language and say it awakens the God power hidden within you. It would also be appropriate to describe this tai chi process as "God helps those who help themselves".
This special tai chi form automatically centers you in your own being. When you do the form, your inner sense of divine power meets your ego body-mind halfway, and they do a sacred dance together. Whether you want to call it the spirit of Tao Immortals or Holy Spirit or Buddha nature or sub-atomic quarks having a party, that is your own private business.