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| Grandmaster Fu Wei Zhong Back
in the U.S.A Grandmaster Fu will be back in the U.S. conducting a workshop tour to five cities.
The San Diego workshop will begin on March 31, 2007. The other cities that Grandmaster Fu will be at are, San Francisco, Ca., Orlando, Fl., New Haven, Ct., and Miami, Fl. Grandmaster Fu will be giving a four day level one workshop to teach the basic theories and skills to be a healthy, calm and strong person. He will also be teaching the level two workshops in each city which is one week long. This workshop teaches how to exercise your pre-birth Qi which will help change your negative destiny and karma. Level three and four will be taught in Florida. For information on those workshops please attend the level one workshop at the city closest to you. Click here for the events page. |
What is Love
by David Knoll
Love is nothing more than your true heart
As big as the universe and as small as a cell
Open your heart and feel it
Cover your heart and conceal it
Open your eyes and see it
For love is all around
The birds in the trees singing
The stars with a harvest moon beaming
A child laughing, an old man dancing
The Qi of my Mei Li that harmonizes my soul
It is your favorite ice cream on a hot summer day
And your best friend that calls you to come out and play
Love is your pet that greets you at home
Or that walk among nature when you just want to roam
The smell of a rose, a majestic sunset
A mother’s hug, a baby’s smile
Open your heart and feel it
Open your eyes and see it
For love is all around
Our Beautiful World
Potala Palace, Tibet
Breithorn Mt., Switzerland
Anyway by: Mother Teresa
People are often unreasonable,
Illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway
If you are kind, people may accuse
You of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway
If you are successful, you will win
Some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway
If you are honest and frank,
People may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway
What you spend years building,
Someone may destroy overnight;
Build anyway
If you find serenity and happiness,
They may be jealous;
Be happy anyway
The good you do today, people will
Often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway
Give the world the best you have’
And it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve go anyway
Reincarnation of 'Buddha'?
Kathmandu - Sixteen-year-old Ram Bahadur Bamjon was spotted on Sunday by
villagers in the remote and dense forests near Piluwa village in Bara
district, 95 miles east of Kathmandu, local journalist Raju Shrestha, who
visited the boy, told Reuters. ....click
here for more
Developing Our Children’s Qi: A Path to Successful Students
Schools in America are increasingly demanding higher test scores of their
students and have turned to a number of strategies to help them be
successful. While differentiating instruction, selected instructional
practices, tutoring and test prep (to name just a few) have had some
positive impact; none of them have given us the results we all want. There
is however some powerful alternative strategies that has not yet been tried
and can help bring the desired results. It is teaching our children how to
enhance their power for concentration and to control their emotions and
energy....click
here for more
Return From China Workshop
I have returned from the extraordinarily intense month long level 4 training
on Emei Mountain. Twenty-two of Grandmaster Fu’s top students traveled to
the other side of the world for this once in a lifetime experience. The days
were long with study, workouts and lectures. The weather was very humid...click
here for more
Our Beautiful World
Pictures from: Jon Garberg
Tibet
Europe
‘Never Be Afraid’ class in Kingston, NY
[click her to get the flyer]
Teacher David Knoll and martial arts/aerobics Teacher Melody Dorn has
created a new self-defense course for women. Teacher David met Teacher
Melody at the Emei Qigong workshop in April at Kingston, NY. Melody loved
the Emei Qigong exercises and philosophies of Qi, and became a student of
Teacher David Knoll.
Teacher David and Teacher Melody created a six week course designed to give
women confidence, awareness and an ability to defend them self if attacked.
It Combines the Emei Qigong exercise of gathering Earth’s energy for power,
the smooth movements of Tai Chi, the explosive punches and kicks of Kung Fu
and the teaching style of aerobics.
The first course starts July 12th and goes to August 16th. The next workshop
will be held in September. The course is being given at Fit Lady gym
845-336-8292. (click her to get the flyer)
When Teacher David comes back from his intensive training with Grandmaster
Fu on Emei Mountain this September he will open the course in the New York
City area. Stay tuned.
Emei Qigong to Autistic Children
Teacher David on Wednesday July 5 went to the ‘Queens High School of
Teaching’ to show and exercise with autistic high school students. Maria
Crowe, a student of Teacher David, is a teacher in the school and invited
David to share the Qigong with the students.
“What a great experience,” says Teacher David, “The kids were wonderful and
really enjoyed the exercises. We did some meditation, healing sounds for
organs and simple Wuji Gong movements. I hope to do this again.”
Maria Crowe will continue to practice with the students and it will be
interesting to see how the students will react to long term Emei Qigong
exercises. Stay tuned.
Advanced Training in China
The month of September will be a very exciting and energy filled time as some of Grandmaster Fu’s top students will travel to Emei Mountain for level four advanced training. From September 7 – October 6, Grandmaster Fu will teach the ancient techniques in the Emei Qigong system to help students become a better healer and teacher. Most of the training will be help at the base of the sacred Buddhist Mountain and some will be training as we reach the summit temple. He hopes that after the month long class which includes 10 hours a day for six days a week, the students will be able to teach his level one workshop around the country. The level one workshop includes the fundamental practice for stress reduction and self healing. More information about the level one workshop can be found on the events link. This training should be an incredible Qi journey which will bring all of who attend to heightened levels of awareness and understanding in our life.
Our Beautiful World
Part of bringing you calmness and peacefulness in your life is to explain that life does have its beauty and positive Qi, even when all you hear about on the news is the negative. Every month we will bring you our picture of the month as students share their favorite photos. If you have a favorite photo of our world please send it to us through our e-mail address in the contact link. Here is a photo sent to us from Jon Garberg, Brooklyn NY.
Cherry Blossoms in Japan
Our Pure Heart Lives with
Organ Transplants
Grandmaster Fu teaches that that our pure heart is located in every cell in
our body and has the ability to store memory and emotions from past
experiences. It is different from the physical heart. The function of our
pure heart is to gather information from our senses, which will lead to our
mental intent. That forms our behavior and attitude toward the stimuli we
are getting from our senses. An example would be your smelling the fresh cut
lawn in a park where there are the sounds and sight of children playing.
Your memory and thought brings you back to a happy time when you attended a
summer camp as a child. You smile and it puts you in a very good mood.
Here is an excerpt of an article from “The Natural Health Magazine”
March-April 1998. The article is called “The Heart Remembers.” It is about a
heart transplant patient and the wife of the man whose heart was donated.
She is meeting the recipient for the first time, three years after the
transplant.
After introductions and awkward attempts at humor about a “heart-to-heart”
meeting between the young wife and her husband’s heart, the usually shy
Glenda blurted out, “This embarrasses me as much as it must embarrass you,
but can I put my hand on your chest and feel his…I mean your heart?”
The young man looked at me and his mother, put his hand to his chest, and
finally nodded his head. As Glenda reached he unbuttoned his shirt, took her
hand and gently placed it against his naked chest. What happened next
transcends our current view of the brain, body, heart and mind.
Glenda’s hand began to tremble and tears rolled down her cheek. She closed
her eyes and whispered, “I love you, David (her deceased husband).
Everything is copasetic.” She removed her hand, hugged the young man to her
chest, and all of us whipped tears from our eyes. Glenda and the young man
sat down and silhouetted against the stained glass window of the chapel,
held hands in silence.
Speaking in her heavy Spanish accent, the young man’s mother told me, “My
son uses that word ‘copacetic’ all the time now. He never used it before he
got his new heart, but after his surgery, it was the first thing he said to
me when he could talk. I didn’t know what it means. He said everything was
copasetic. It is not a word I know in Spanish.”
Glenda overheard us, her eyes widened, she turned toward us, and said, “That
word was our signal that everything is okay. Every time we argue and made
up. We would both say that everything is copasetic.”
Our discussion about a magic word that seemed to reveal a code of the heart
within him stimulated the young man to share story after story of changes he
experienced following his transplant. Described by his mother as a former
vegetarian and very health-conscious, he now craves meat and fatty foods. A
former lover of heavy metal music, he now loved 50’s rock and roll. He
reported recurrent dreams of bright lights coming straight toward him.
Glenda responded almost matter-of-factly that her husband loved meat, had
played in a Motown rock and roll band while in medical school, and that she
too dreams of the lights of that fateful night (he husband dying from the
accident).
Grandmaster Fu Back in USA
Grandmaster Fu has arrived in Florida to begin his 2006 Emei Qigong workshop
tour. This year will be a basic introductory tour ending with the more
intensive level 1 and level 2 workshops. Level 1 is practicing the exercises
and learning about the philosophies of Emei Qigong on a post-birth Qi
concept. That is to say we will be working our body and mind for our health
today. Level 2 works our pre-birth Qi which helps to cleanse our karma and
leads us on a more positive direction for our future true happiness. A look
at the schedule and a more detailed understanding can be found here. Events
Teacher David Knoll’s
Workshop
Grandmaster Fu can’t be everywhere teaching, so Teacher David will be going
to different cities to give an a one day feel the Qi workshop. In this
workshop you will experience some of the Emei Qigong exercises and receive
some good Qi. “Everyone will feel and experience Qi (energy),” says Teacher
David, “You will restore your Qi reservoir and begin to understand the
importance of practicing a system to generate and cleanse your Qi.” A look
at the schedule and a more detailed understanding can be found
here.
Teacher David in the News
Teacher David has started a new exercise class that combines the ancient
practice of Kung Fu with the energy and power of Emei Qigong. It has caught
the attention of some media in the New York area and this article was
written about it:
Qigong on Long Island (March 10, 2006)
by Maurize Pinzon
In this first decade of the 21st century China is emerging as a world
economic power that may soon rival the United States. And New York City with
its growing Chinese immigrant population is connecting New York to China not
only through immigration and commerce, but also by introducing New Yorkers
to Chinese cultural practices.
One ambassador in this Chinese-American exchange is David Knoll, who has
visited China on three separate occasions while studying Qigong with Fu Wei
Zhong for 17 years. Mr. Knoll said he is not creating anything new but is
just trying to bring traditional Qigong techniques to the West.
Mr. Zhong, who Mr. Knoll refers to, as “Grandmaster Fu” is according to Mr.
Knoll, the lineage holder of the 800-year-old Emei Qigong (pronounced Er-may
Chee-goong), a specific variant within the Qigong tradition.
Broadly speaking Qigong to Western eyes is variously classified as breathing
meditation, physical and mental self-awareness, spiritualism, martial arts,
Eastern philosophy and perhaps even a form of Eastern medicine.
But Mr. Knoll described Qigong to this reporter as a four thousand year
tradition that “was created by the Taoist monks, who discovered that if they
focused on their breathing, and had certain movements in their bodies, or
holding postures, that they could enhance their energy and well being.”
Knoll went on to indicate that Emei Qigong is a “hybrid system” that draws
on the traditions of Taoist and Buddhist teachings and many other Eastern
philosophies and practices.
Knoll indicated that in the workshop he will be holding starting in March in
Great Neck, Long Island, he wanted to “try to combine Emei Qigong exercises
with a physical exercise of Kung Fu, so it’s an almost yin and yang approach
to working out.”
He went on to say that students would “work on [their] muscles, learn
self-defense techniques, while also doing Qigong to help to relax the mind
so you’re not using the self-defense in anger, you’re doing it for peace.”
Knoll said first time students should expect a dual exercise “where instead
of just going to a gym or going to classes to work on just their body, this
in fact works their mind, then the body.” To learn more please visit the
website EmeiqigongNY.com
