Aloha All,


Yes, Agent B and the gang were thrown off for only a minute Friday night when they came in during the setup and saw a guy feeding the baby that didn't quite live up to Iam2's open ended statement.

Since Agent B didn't put (joke) after some of his references, I'll clarify:

The Don't use a computer reference, was a joke Master Lin made when mentioning that his talk he had written for last year's event was deleted from his computer just before the event.

The Flying reference was in regards to a woman telling an incredible story of being in a study conducted by an international select group of doctors for the illness. (this is a very generic version of the story) Half ways through she wasn't making the progress the rest were and her Mom started her on Spring Forest Qigong. She then made gains that put her ahead of everyone else in the study. The doctors couldn't explain it, but thought their work must be doing wonderfully! When she told the doctors that she had started SFQ, they were upset and told her not to add anything other than what they were prescribing. A Chinese doctor on the staff pulled her aside and said that those Qigong masters are flaky and even think they can fly -stay away from it!

So she did, and her condition went back down to brutal. She said that the hugest thing that changed when doing or not doing her SFQ was her attitude. When she dropped SFQ, her health when back to where it was and so did her attitude, which got to the point that she didn't even want to do their work.

After while she forced her self to go back to that study and after being with it for a while they said she wasn't making the progress she was, and matter of fact, wasn't progressing at all. They suggested she may want to add yoga to her treatment. She was baffled, Yoga is ok, but qigong is not, even after the huge difference it made?

She said fine and signed up for the yoga class, but didn't go and started back with her qigong again. Once again she is doing better than everyone else in the study and the doctors think it is from their work and the yoga.

So...after that story, the person running the mic turned to Chunyi and said "well, for $180 will you show us how to fly?" The whole crowd had a good laugh and so did Chunyi.

It was wonderful to get to meet some faces from the Forum and I hope we can all meet at some point at a future class, retreat or special event.

Much Love, Shawn

[This message has been edited by Shawn_Grim (edited November 19, 2003).]