The Dao De Jing: A Qigong Interpretation

even if you win, you should—again—not be proud, brag, flaunt, and be arrogant.

and then perish.

The way of keeping your mind calm and peaceful is to not be distracted by emotional disturbances.

This implies that when you don’t talk, don’t see, don’t listen, don’t smell, and the body does not move, with the concentration of your mind, you will be able to regulate the five organs’ qi to their origins (to their normal and healthy state).

Your body’s qi status is closely related to your mind. If your mind is under the conditions of fear, distress, and sadness, your qi status will be suboptimal; thus, cancer cells continue to survive and spread.

One is material science (物質科學) and the other is spiritual science (精神科學). One is searching for the truth of the yang world and the other the truth of the yin world.

Since we don’t actually know what the Dao (i.e., Natural Spirit) is, we also don’t know what the human spirit is.

Only those who are able to forget these six comparisons (i.e., six desires) can enter the spiritual calmness.”6

When you train embryonic breathing meditation, you are learning to calm down your conscious mind and allow your subconscious mind to grow.