Luohan Qigong. Treasure for health: The internal work of Choy Lee Fut

81 Pages·2017·2.48 MB·English

by  Jose Rafael Beneyto Galbis

Luohan Qigong
Treasure for health
by Jose Beneyto
Luohan Qigong. Treasure for health © Jose Rafael Beneyto Galbis All rights reserved. All or part of the
reproduction of this work is prohibited without the express permission of its author.
The author declines all responsibility for any injury or accident that may occur to the reader by reading or
practicing the material contained in this work. It is recommended that before any physical activity, an
expert in the subject and/or a doctor is consulted.
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Luohan Qigong / Jose Beneyto. —1 ed.
ISBN 978-1974283743
To Núria and Irene, my authentic treasures.
My sincere thanks to those people, both Westerners and Orientals, who have
transmitted their knowledge to me.
Especially Jose Fernandez, for teaching me most of the things I know about the
Luohan system, and also Javier Sánchez, my first teacher, for allowing me to
enter this fascinating world.
Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. What’s Qigong. Why practice it
Chapter 3. What is Luohan Qigong. Why practice it
Chapter 4. How to get it. Work methods
Chapter 5. Yin-Yang theory
Chapter 6. Important Points
Chapter 7. LUOHAN QIGONG. Buddha Science.
Chapter 8. Breathing types in Luohan Qigong
Chapter 9. Conclusion
Thank you!
About the Author
Author's clarification
Prologue
Chinese Qigong (chi kung) is very well known for the health benefits of its
practice, and Luo Han Qigong is one of the schools of this fascinating tradition.
Among the books and articles that I have read about this art, I consider this as
one of the best. It explains very clear all the basic principles of the system in a
way that everybody can understand, even if you are not a practitioner.
For many years Master Jose Beneyto has made a deep study of the system, and I
have to say that he is one of the most qualify persons to write about it. His
experience in the practice of the system together with his understanding of its
principles converted him in one of the top Masters of the world.
I hope this book will be just the first one of a series of books about the Lo Han
system that will spread this tradition over the world.
José Fernández
Chapter 1. Introduction
It’s very likely you know the benefits that regular moderate physical exercise
brings to you.
You probably also know good reasons to perform breathing exercises.
And you are probably also aware about advantages of practicing concentration
and meditation exercises.
Well, if you know all these things, imagine for a second an activity that offers
you the benefits of these three; appropriated physical exercise, different kind of
breathing exercises, and concentration/meditation exercises practice…
Well, this is what qigong offers you, and more specifically, Luohan qigong!
We usually remember our health when we have any trouble with it. Then we
look for solutions either in conventional medicine or in the complementary one.
Increasingly, healthy life habits are insisted as preventive methods to take care
of our health. Correct feeding, moderated physical exercise, correctly breathing,
appropriated rest, etc.
And here is where the qigong practice can help us. In fact, as you’ll see later,
this is one of the biggest objectives of qigong; to preserve our health.
And in this, I can assure, Luohan qigong is an authentic treasure.
But to be able to successfully do any activity, it is necessary to exactly know
what we want to get from it, know the objective why we do it.
Once we have it clear, we can analyze how we can achieve:
It’s exactly the same with the qigong. From the first moment, we should
understand what we practice it for. Know clearly the objective we pursue with its
training.
And that is precisely the purpose of this book. To explain in a simple and clear
way what the main object of Luohan qigong is and how we’re going to make it.
There are multiple books about qigong, and among them, some are dedicated to
the Luohan system. Those ones are really good and generally more “complex”
that the one you have in your hands right now.
But precisely, one of my goals about writing this book is to make it simple. I
consider what’s most important about the Luohan qigong learning, it’s the
practice. It may seem obvious, but I can assure something so logical often fails
in several practitioners or even in masters of this art.
Having so many theoretical knowledge doesn’t work at all if they’re not
perfectly understandable, and above all, if you don’t know how to apply them to
the practice, which is in the end what brings us many benefits that can be gained
by qigong work.
It isn’t necessary to be a specialist in Chinese medicine to practice the exercises.
Having clear and determinate concepts and theory is enough. I hope I can help
you get it…
Chapter 2. What’s Qigong. Why practice it
There are lots of qigong systems. It’s easy to understand that in a country so
extensive such as China, multitude of practices have been developed all over
their history in order to preserve health.
Since ancient times, Chinese civilization tried to avoid disease through different
methods. Some of them consisted in curing different ailments when these had
already appeared, when the symptoms where already shown.
But they soon realized the importance of preventing the disease.
Different masters, focused on seeking a health preventive method, observed that
apart from other aspects such as feeding, rest or weather conditions, a person’s
physical activity had a direct effect on it.
They observed that not only an over physical activity could be harmful (as it
used to happen to society’s low class, forced to work from sun to sun), but the
absence of any physical exercise was terrible to health (as it used to happen to
society’s high class members).
From then, they started to develop several types of exercises with the purpose to
promote health through an appropriated physical activity.
These exercises evolved in different ways, depending on the practitioners they
were directed to and the concrete needs of these.
They couldn’t be the same to the ones who practiced the nobility with a low
physical activity level, to those who practiced in a monks group which goal was
to ease the effect of long hour’s meditation in static postures.
But they all kept having the original idea about promoting an optimum health
state through different practices that favored the correct blood and energy
circulation through all the body, helping in this way, both the correct nutrition of
all organisms’ cells and tissues, and the disposal of toxins and waste products
produced by these.
This whole group of different practices or exercises was known in a generic way