One Word, Four Practices: The Kinds of Meditation Nobody Separates for You
The word meditation covers four completely different practices — and confusing them is why so many people feel they chose the wrong path or failed at the right one.
Chinese qigong history can track back to China’s primitive time that was over five thousand years ago. At that time, there was not any precision equipment for measurement, detection, or exploration. Then how ancient Chinese people got to know qi, the meridian channels, energy points, solar terms, and so on. Because they mastered the most advanced life science: qigong.
Even today, with all the modern science and technology, people still couldn’t detect qi. But Chinese people have been using qi and qigong science to understand the human body and the universe. Qigong has been deeply engraved into Chinese people’s culture and life. No matter how dramatically the world changed, Chinese people will carry forward the science of qigong. We spread qigong knowledge to the world so that people all over the world can benefit from this qigong wisdom. Therefore, we record great qigong grandmasters and sages to remember them for what they had contributed to qigong history.
The word meditation covers four completely different practices — and confusing them is why so many people feel they chose the wrong path or failed at the right one.
One English word covers four completely different practices — and confusing them is exactly why so many people decide they failed at meditation.
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China has more than 3,000 years of qigong history. There are probably over a thousand forms of qigong practices exist. According to their origins, we categorize them into: Buddhist qigong, Taoist qigong and Confucian qigong.