The modern qigong craze in China began in the early 80s, people were curious about qigong, they found it refreshing and magical and hence the passion about qigong was high. Many different pai sprung up and there was a positive environment for qigong growth. For an enlightened master like Master Wang who hide in plain sight, he didn't have intention to teach publicly, instead he used this opportunity to inspect the methods of different schools. There were two reasons that made him change his mind on teaching:
(1) At that time, there were some people who taught under the banner of Longmen Pai but in reality there were fake. In order to maintain the reputation of Longmen Pai, the only way was to teach authentic Longmen Pai neigong.
(2) A party leader was healed by Master Wang in Beijing. He recommended Master Wang to the Chinese Qigong Science Research Council afterward. The research council asked Master Wang to teach a few classes. Master Wang agreed after he had obtained permission from the old masters. In 1985, Master Wang taught the authentic Quanzhen Longmen Pai neigong, "Ling bao tong zhineng neigong shu" (The Art of Spiritual Jewels and Intelligence), for the first time publicly. Through Master Wang's lectures, demonstrations, healing and daigongs etc, the common people got their first taste of what authentic Longmen Pai Neigong is like. Every organizers and students have very high regard of Master Wang. Not long afterward, the Qigong Research Council established a specialized qigong research subdivision for Ling Bao Tong. At that time, under the direction of the Chinese Qigong Science Research council, only Ling Bao Tong and the authentic Buddhist practice, Cangmi Gong, were permitted to have a Category 2 specialized study group established. All other methods were classified only as Category 3. Master Wang also became a major member of the Qigong and Special Ability Inspection Team. Out of the 22 so called "great qigong masters" at that time, Master Wang verified 17.
Of course I also knew about the methods, abilities and level of some of the so called "great" masters. If at university, I looked at and understood qigong from a superficial level, then from that time on, I was looking at it from a higher level, I can see it from a practitioner point of view to learn about qigong, including their levels, advantages and deficiencies.
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
1987 - My fortunate destiny with Dao.
Due to some of the success I had with the departmental sport club, the student union wanted me to work for them, I made a surprising choice, I joined the university's qigong club as the communication director. My responsibility was to contact and negotiate with outside qigong masters. This surprising choice has given me a surprising reward.
In 1985, before I took a leave of absence, I started practicing the HeXianZhuang qigong to improve my poor health condition. After a few days, I began to experience spontaneous movements. I was a bit scared and so stopped practicing it. After i had gone home, I took a correspondence course on Mr. Lu Gin Tang's "Ultimate Silence Qigong", after a few months of meditation, I noticed the following phenomenon : when I meditate, I felt that my body was very light, just liked floating in the air, my brain went blank, just liked entering into nothingness. I experienced this three times in a row, I didn't know what it meant and I was worried that there might be some problem and so I stopped practicing it as well.
After half a year of resting at home and meditation, my body had basically recovered. I became interested in qigong and after i had returned to the university, i practiced the beginner and advanced level of "Shaolin One Finger Zen" , i worked on it for almost a year. The student qigong club of the Xian Transportation University was a volunteer group of enthusiasts, we were officially affiliated with the Shaanxi County Qigong Association. Before my graduation, the association had organized over 20 qigong classes, over 10 huge open forums and public demonstrations, participants totaled over 4000. Our principle was that we would only invite master with authentic transmission or creator of new schools. The most fortunate event was that we were able to invite Master Wang Liping.
The first time I heard about Master Wang was in March 1987. At that time, I stumbled upon a report at a friend's place, it detailed stories of Master Wang where he stopped rain, summoned animals, demonstrated invisibility and used his third eye and others. After I read the report, I told myself that it would be great if I could meet Master Wang. In September of the same year, The China Qigong Science Research Committee was established in Xian. When we found out that Master Wang would be attending the meeting and that our qigong club's president and a graduate student would also be there, we used our advantage as the host together with the help of the Shaanxi Qigong Association to arrange our club president and the graduate student to stay in the same dorm as Master Wang. The plan worked and the two students got on really well with Master Wang. When they invited Master Wang to teach a class at Xian Transportation university, Master Wang gladly accepted. We immediately prepared for Master Wang class. After the meeting at Xian had concluded. Master Wang taught an eight days long class on "Spiritual Jewels Zhineng Neigong". However there was a small interlude: during the meeting, the Shaanxi Qigong association and the Shaanxi Daoist Association also invited Master Wang to teach a class but Master Wang had already agreed to teach at our university qigong club and so the County association felt that they had lost face. They came to negotiate with us since we are officially part of the county association. As a compromise, the class was officially organized by the county association, our university was designated as the contractor for the event. Due to the space limitation of the venue and the need to accommodate outside participants. It was decided to limit the number of student participants. As a result, no more than 30 Xian Transportation University students were admitted to Master Wang's class.
In 1985, before I took a leave of absence, I started practicing the HeXianZhuang qigong to improve my poor health condition. After a few days, I began to experience spontaneous movements. I was a bit scared and so stopped practicing it. After i had gone home, I took a correspondence course on Mr. Lu Gin Tang's "Ultimate Silence Qigong", after a few months of meditation, I noticed the following phenomenon : when I meditate, I felt that my body was very light, just liked floating in the air, my brain went blank, just liked entering into nothingness. I experienced this three times in a row, I didn't know what it meant and I was worried that there might be some problem and so I stopped practicing it as well.
After half a year of resting at home and meditation, my body had basically recovered. I became interested in qigong and after i had returned to the university, i practiced the beginner and advanced level of "Shaolin One Finger Zen" , i worked on it for almost a year. The student qigong club of the Xian Transportation University was a volunteer group of enthusiasts, we were officially affiliated with the Shaanxi County Qigong Association. Before my graduation, the association had organized over 20 qigong classes, over 10 huge open forums and public demonstrations, participants totaled over 4000. Our principle was that we would only invite master with authentic transmission or creator of new schools. The most fortunate event was that we were able to invite Master Wang Liping.
The first time I heard about Master Wang was in March 1987. At that time, I stumbled upon a report at a friend's place, it detailed stories of Master Wang where he stopped rain, summoned animals, demonstrated invisibility and used his third eye and others. After I read the report, I told myself that it would be great if I could meet Master Wang. In September of the same year, The China Qigong Science Research Committee was established in Xian. When we found out that Master Wang would be attending the meeting and that our qigong club's president and a graduate student would also be there, we used our advantage as the host together with the help of the Shaanxi Qigong Association to arrange our club president and the graduate student to stay in the same dorm as Master Wang. The plan worked and the two students got on really well with Master Wang. When they invited Master Wang to teach a class at Xian Transportation university, Master Wang gladly accepted. We immediately prepared for Master Wang class. After the meeting at Xian had concluded. Master Wang taught an eight days long class on "Spiritual Jewels Zhineng Neigong". However there was a small interlude: during the meeting, the Shaanxi Qigong association and the Shaanxi Daoist Association also invited Master Wang to teach a class but Master Wang had already agreed to teach at our university qigong club and so the County association felt that they had lost face. They came to negotiate with us since we are officially part of the county association. As a compromise, the class was officially organized by the county association, our university was designated as the contractor for the event. Due to the space limitation of the venue and the need to accommodate outside participants. It was decided to limit the number of student participants. As a result, no more than 30 Xian Transportation University students were admitted to Master Wang's class.
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