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Taiji as a spiritual art (Neigong) is the training of intention, awareness and intelligence,
within the energies of the upper-dantian (celestial or heaven level) - and beyond.

Attar: "The lower-self cannot follow these things. Only the one (higher-self) who is so destined can follow it and succeed in it. Between the lower-self and the higher-self there is ever conflict of aims. To proceed on this inner path you must be brave and wise, then there is hope to transcend the turbulent river of life."



To train fully on this level is beyond the realm of normal people. Master Huang Xingxian, Master Ma Yueliang and Master Ni Huaching were the only people I met in my wide Taiji travels who reached this stage. Yet even a beginner inevitably includes in their training a small percentage of the Deep Mind from the upper dantian. Beginners, as Master Huang often said, use 90% the superficial-mind and about 10% the Deep Mind. Of this 10% perhaps 7% is from the etheric lower dantian, 2% from the astral middle dantian and less than 1% from the celestial upper dantian.

Daily life confirms these proportions. Most of a persons waking life is absorbed by their perceptions, conceptions and reactions to the outer world. Less than 10% is connected with inner perceptions. When a person is in the half-sleep state, their outer awareness recedes to reveal a little more of the deep body sensations and the body's etheric energy field, but their abilty to act reduces dramatically. When a person enters the dream state, their ability to act and their later recall of the astral world is very small. When they enter deep sleep, there ability in the celestial world is certainly less than 1% of waking consciouness.

True training will gradually increase the ability to perceive, think and act on each of these internal levels. Gradually a persons centre of gravity will shift first to the world of the lower dantian (deep body sensations and etheric energy field), then later to the world of the middle dantian (deep emotional energies), then finally, with correct, sincere practice and long perserverance, the centre of gravity will establish itself within the celestial world of the upper dantian.

The words above are not theory - they are known to be true from my personal experience and confirmed by the personal experience of my teachers.
The Inner Teachings of Daoism by Chang Po-tuan
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