Timeline and Engine
First part a little discussion on time scales and expectations. As from a previous post it was mentioned, hereby a bit explored more.
Qi gong reality is something, that doesnt care what we imagine, or wish. It works through certain mechanics and that is it. Roughly. Same with the neccessary timespans spent with practise. There always will be someone who “learned a magic skill” and know a shortcut. But reality of Qi gong do not care…
So the matter of fact, qi gong practise very likely need more practise time at certain stages than we anticipate. Let alone what many try to sell to masses, in hope of milking them with presenting newer and newer excercises. Telling them 20-30 minutes daily is enough. And that way people will never find out what truely works.
Logically, once you had a little glimpse into the nature of human mind, you will know how to avoid your own traps, even as others. Also will know how to secure and stabilize qi gong results truely.
As sensations and experience means very little in the point of view of the bigger scale, or longer run.
| 3 groups of practitoners and their problems:
1) Thinks already arrived, but never even started.
2) Thinks what should be achieved, but since it is an imagination, will never reach, always frustrated. Also not humble enough to see what i described about time periods. Sometimes simply a lot of time needed. And we cant get an imagination if it is not reality for us.
3) Jam makers. They have no hope. 
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Second part, is The Engine.
The famous lower dan tian. The root of Qi gong. Again, if we know the nature of our human mind, we know how easy for it to decieve, make us believe or dream, and accept it as reality. If we know that our filtering process can be repetition and what does truely withstand the test of the time.
Finding true dan tian and avoiding the commonly wide spread teachings of false dan tian is basic need. Than truely know how to cultivate and build it is the next hurdle, which need constant effort and more time again, than we think. And stabilizing it…, is another question. As we remember, sensation and expereince occasionally means very little. And here where we are under educated, or underinformed, furthermore arrogant, and apply our intellect. Or simply replace gaps with promises or wishes, imagination – since they are easier.
The engine needs to be built on the path of Qi gong. In the context of what Qi gong means: gain the skill and become able to work with Qi truely. To find Qi, dan tian is needed, otherwise what you find is sensations, nervous system and imagination. We need to find it, so we can learn to listen to it, and so on. Further works only grow out of this base.
There are a lot of factors stand between us and finding dan tian or Qi in reality, and that is the reason it took everyone a long time to cultivate their Qi and progress on the path of nei gong. To break down each of these factors is practise and decades and, topic of many other posts.
See you next weekend, when talk stops and 3 days cultivation is ahead.
