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Hi,
While this post has nothing to do with Tai-Chi, it does have to do with Chi-Gong. (I simply noticed that every other posts in this forum section was about Tai-Chi).
I wanted to tell you about a form of energy work (chi-gong) that is call the "9 Hand Seals" or in Japanese: Kuji-in. Kuji-in is a set of 9 exercises that bring physical and mental benefits.
Resumed, exercise #1 develops self-confidence, to a point where you believe there is nothing that can stop you from attaining your goal. Some call it the "faith" kuji. A side-effect of this kuji-in step is much more willpower in the mind, and ever more physical strength (because your mind can push more energy to the muscles.)
#2 develops a sens of responsibility, helping you take control of your life. A side effect, things start to happen your way.
#3 Harmony. Everything becomes cool, no problem, we'll resolve it, let's get to work.
#4 Healing. It's not a practice to get an immediate effect in healing. It's an exercise that builds up your healing-potential, so that if you ever have to heal anything, it will help. A side effect, yet not scientificaly proven, is that it also help others around you to heal faster. Most people learn kuji-in for these first 4 steps, cause it'a a nice goal to attain, and the other 5 steps are more and more abstract.
#5 Self-love. Its realy great on the heart chakra. It takes all this harmony, and self-responsible feeling that you setup in the steps before, and applies it to you, and you develop self love, even compassion. Some say a side effect is a greater intuition. (I believe so, it worked for me).
#6 Self-knowledge. Its more and more abstract, as the kuji-in exercises make it easier to understand what you think, feel, percieve,... A side effect is the enhancement of understanding the subtle things...
#7 Dimensions/perception. Shifts your perception of everything, for the better.
#8 Manifestation. Its not like if you could make stuff appear, but things realy organise in ways that you like, in manners that you could not belive possible before (but then again, since exericise #1, you kinda feel everyting is possible).
#9 No-mind, blank, no-word, like touching the void, a mental shut-down and restart. Side effects: unknown, but there are probably.
Kuji-in was discovers in the esoteric hindu begginings. From hinduism came buddhism, and chi-gong was organised to favorize teaching, by giving names to sets of exercises and techniques. A wise chinese master, Bao Pu Zhi, was the first to put on paper the drawings of the 9 hand positions (mudras). Then the technique migrated to japan with buddhism, and the esoteric Japanese Buddhists (call Mikkyo) made it a more formal and used technique.
The medical groups used it to make everything better, and the martial artists used it to become more powerful warriors, while famers used the technique to better the crops, but there is a common thing between all the applications of Kuji-in, it is that it makes the person much more stronger against illness, controversy, doubt... it simply makes you stronger.
If any of you have questions about kuji-in, don't hesitat to PM me.
Interesting.
Call me a pedant but why do you mix chinese and japanese words?
It's a bit like asking for a gateau cake. Kinda.
I believe if I remember right this is the method of the Ninja? I like mudras.
Hi!
About the mixing of words, i simply use the words available for the things that people will relate to more. Chi-gong is know for something, and kuji-is knows for someting else. In the same sense, why do you mix chinese and english. Shouldn't you say "i do unerverse-energy" instead of "i do reiki"? Of course not, you use the words that people can relate to in order to get yourself understood, because everyone defined Reiki as something specific. So i don't say that i like "Energy-work exercises and 9 hand seals esoteric buddhist techniqes", i simply say "chi-gong and kuji-in".
As for the link with ninjas, it just so happens that most ninjitsu schools are also buddhists schools in the shingong tradition where kuji-in is thought. Kuji-in was made popular in 1980's ninja movies, but it is still an esoteric buddhist method. Even more, the ninjas pretend they hold the secret keys to the technique, and they only developed a part of it for its side effects, like enhanced strength and perception. I wrote about kuji-in ina martial arts forum not so long ago, and they doubted my buddhist side because i'm not a black belt in something.
In any case, i love mudra techniques too :)
Um, but in this case, you're not just refering to a well-established foreign term but calling some sort of method this while mixing two languages.
Telecino are you from Dr. Hatsumi school?What I've read Kuji-in follows Buddhist thought, and traces back to the Lin Quen? ninja of China. I saw your table of contents of one of your books- String Theory?
Hi,
The kuji-in technique i teach isfrom the Japanese Tendai Mikkyo tradition. I also learned the transformation tradition from a priest of the hindu tradition: Swami Paramananda Saraswatti.
Kuji-in is used by ninjas because most ninjas are buddhists. But i am no ninja, i'm a meditator. Dr Hatsumi is the head of the reknowned school of ninjitsu. He too is buddhists, and use the Kuji-in technique.
Kuji-in originates from the hindu traditions, using a lot of mudras. It was passed to the buddhists, travelled to china, then to japan.
The "string theory" you saw in one of the table of contents, was from the book "The 7 Seals", and occidental approach covering kabbalistic practices and their link to more scientific matierial. Kuji-in is not occidental but oriental, and is a subject treated in my 2 other oriental approach books.
Hey, can the kuji-in be self taught? (i feel really silly doing anything infront of other people) I think it would benefit me because I need a serious amount of self confidence
blessed be
Lozz
two things spring to mind:
1) you're best off learning from a teacher as it is easily possibly to have the wrong stance without realising it, which can affect the way your energy flows.
2) standing with others in a group is a great way of slowly developing your self-confidence.
While this post has nothing to do with Tai-Chi, it does have to do with Chi-Gong. (I simply noticed that every other posts in this forum section was about Tai-Chi).
I wanted to tell you about a form of energy work (chi-gong) that is call the "9 Hand Seals" or in Japanese: Kuji-in. Kuji-in is a set of 9 exercises that bring physical and mental benefits.
Resumed, exercise #1 develops self-confidence, to a point where you believe there is nothing that can stop you from attaining your goal. Some call it the "faith" kuji. A side-effect of this kuji-in step is much more willpower in the mind, and ever more physical strength (because your mind can push more energy to the muscles.)
#2 develops a sens of responsibility, helping you take control of your life. A side effect, things start to happen your way.
#3 Harmony. Everything becomes cool, no problem, we'll resolve it, let's get to work.
#4 Healing. It's not a practice to get an immediate effect in healing. It's an exercise that builds up your healing-potential, so that if you ever have to heal anything, it will help. A side effect, yet not scientificaly proven, is that it also help others around you to heal faster. Most people learn kuji-in for these first 4 steps, cause it'a a nice goal to attain, and the other 5 steps are more and more abstract.
#5 Self-love. Its realy great on the heart chakra. It takes all this harmony, and self-responsible feeling that you setup in the steps before, and applies it to you, and you develop self love, even compassion. Some say a side effect is a greater intuition. (I believe so, it worked for me).
#6 Self-knowledge. Its more and more abstract, as the kuji-in exercises make it easier to understand what you think, feel, percieve,... A side effect is the enhancement of understanding the subtle things...
#7 Dimensions/perception. Shifts your perception of everything, for the better.
#8 Manifestation. Its not like if you could make stuff appear, but things realy organise in ways that you like, in manners that you could not belive possible before (but then again, since exericise #1, you kinda feel everyting is possible).
#9 No-mind, blank, no-word, like touching the void, a mental shut-down and restart. Side effects: unknown, but there are probably.
Kuji-in was discovers in the esoteric hindu begginings. From hinduism came buddhism, and chi-gong was organised to favorize teaching, by giving names to sets of exercises and techniques. A wise chinese master, Bao Pu Zhi, was the first to put on paper the drawings of the 9 hand positions (mudras). Then the technique migrated to japan with buddhism, and the esoteric Japanese Buddhists (call Mikkyo) made it a more formal and used technique.
The medical groups used it to make everything better, and the martial artists used it to become more powerful warriors, while famers used the technique to better the crops, but there is a common thing between all the applications of Kuji-in, it is that it makes the person much more stronger against illness, controversy, doubt... it simply makes you stronger.
If any of you have questions about kuji-in, don't hesitat to PM me.
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Interesting.
Call me a pedant but why do you mix chinese and japanese words?
It's a bit like asking for a gateau cake. Kinda.
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I believe if I remember right this is the method of the Ninja? I like mudras.
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Hi!
About the mixing of words, i simply use the words available for the things that people will relate to more. Chi-gong is know for something, and kuji-is knows for someting else. In the same sense, why do you mix chinese and english. Shouldn't you say "i do unerverse-energy" instead of "i do reiki"? Of course not, you use the words that people can relate to in order to get yourself understood, because everyone defined Reiki as something specific. So i don't say that i like "Energy-work exercises and 9 hand seals esoteric buddhist techniqes", i simply say "chi-gong and kuji-in".
As for the link with ninjas, it just so happens that most ninjitsu schools are also buddhists schools in the shingong tradition where kuji-in is thought. Kuji-in was made popular in 1980's ninja movies, but it is still an esoteric buddhist method. Even more, the ninjas pretend they hold the secret keys to the technique, and they only developed a part of it for its side effects, like enhanced strength and perception. I wrote about kuji-in ina martial arts forum not so long ago, and they doubted my buddhist side because i'm not a black belt in something.
In any case, i love mudra techniques too :)
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Um, but in this case, you're not just refering to a well-established foreign term but calling some sort of method this while mixing two languages.
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Telecino are you from Dr. Hatsumi school?What I've read Kuji-in follows Buddhist thought, and traces back to the Lin Quen? ninja of China. I saw your table of contents of one of your books- String Theory?
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Hi,
The kuji-in technique i teach isfrom the Japanese Tendai Mikkyo tradition. I also learned the transformation tradition from a priest of the hindu tradition: Swami Paramananda Saraswatti.
Kuji-in is used by ninjas because most ninjas are buddhists. But i am no ninja, i'm a meditator. Dr Hatsumi is the head of the reknowned school of ninjitsu. He too is buddhists, and use the Kuji-in technique.
Kuji-in originates from the hindu traditions, using a lot of mudras. It was passed to the buddhists, travelled to china, then to japan.
The "string theory" you saw in one of the table of contents, was from the book "The 7 Seals", and occidental approach covering kabbalistic practices and their link to more scientific matierial. Kuji-in is not occidental but oriental, and is a subject treated in my 2 other oriental approach books.
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Hey, can the kuji-in be self taught? (i feel really silly doing anything infront of other people) I think it would benefit me because I need a serious amount of self confidence
blessed be
Lozz
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two things spring to mind:
1) you're best off learning from a teacher as it is easily possibly to have the wrong stance without realising it, which can affect the way your energy flows.
2) standing with others in a group is a great way of slowly developing your self-confidence.
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