Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ Spring Forest Qigong Difference between SPQ and traditional Qigong?

Is SPQ a special program which treis to teach the old chiniese Qigong or is it something different.
If so,
what is the advantage of SPQ over traditional Qigong?

Good Question...

Being new, I too have a similar question.

What is the diff between SFQ & other Qigongs?

Can other Qigong methods also be practiced & help or hinder SFQ?

Rick

I guess you would have to define "Traditional Qigong" first. Over the centuries Qigong has been designed to fit many applications from Martial Arts, Scholarly enhancement, Longer Life, Increased Sexual ability, Healing and Immortality. As many as could be imagined.

Master Lin has studied under many recognized Masters. SFQ is based on the principles passed to him and is about as "Traditional" as it gets.

The difference might be in Master Lin's Mission Statement "A World without pain and a Healer in every Family". I would say that SFQ has been designed around this mission.

Pretty ambitious task for anyone to take on.

Hope that helps.

Jeff

I would define "Traditional Qigong" as Qigong which calls itself Qigong.

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His discovery led to the development of a new form of Qigong called Spring Forest Qigong.

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SFQ is based on the principles passed to him and is about as "Traditional" as it gets.

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Than that development is basically changing the name?

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The difference might be in Master Lin's Mission Statement "A World without pain and a Healer in every Family". I would say that SFQ has been designed around this mission.

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Sure a Mission Statement or Goal can be important, but it say nothing about the quality of the nature of something.

Most Qigong is concentrat one oneself. (You do something and you get something)
Does Healer means: You do something something and another gets better while he receives only passiv the "Healing Season"?

So is the name something like a book name for the packet or does it have meaning?

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Generic Qigong, in my opinion, can be very dangerous. If you do not have a purpose for your practice, then what are you doing? Maybe you'll get lucky and strike gold but odds are not in your favor.

As a Healer in SFQ you are helping a person Heal Themselves.

All Qigong is based on the same set of Principles, axioms, self evident truths, the same as any body of science or art. It is the persons interpretation of these same principles that we see the difference in how they are applied and the results that are attained.

"Spring Forest" does have meaning and Master Lin goes into that in his materials.

To concentrate on oneself in Qigong is only a beginning step.

Quality depends on how you apply what you learn. That is a self regulating thing.

Please enjoy whatever path you follow.

Jeff

Hi Brutha

I wondered the same thing & I'm not sure we have the answer yet.."His discovery led to the development of a new form of Qigong called Spring Forest Qigong"

One can not state that there is a new form of Qigong just because of a mission statement. Developing a new form of Qigong means it has to deviate to a degree from the old form..and I,like you, am interested in the differences..

Chunyi Lin studied many forms. He wanted to make it easier and is still working on it to make the forms as simple as possible.

Some of the forms you'll recognise in other Schools of Qigong. The Name of any form or school says nothing about it's true history and not even a mastwer would be able to tell you what was "traditional" it's what one teacher combined and taught to their students. Traditional is not necessarily better either apart from a nostalgic basis some of the disciplines required years of practise before one sees any benfit.

As to why Chunyi Lin Chose the name Spring Forest Qigong http://www.springforestqigong.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=52

Alex

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If you do not have a purpose for your practice, then what are you doing? Maybe you'll get lucky and strike gold but odds are not in your favor.

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I do not want do downplay goals but a goal is nothing which out a good basis.
Sure a good basis is also nothing without a goal.
But the have to work together.

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Quality depends on how you apply what you learn. That is a self regulating thing.

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That means the quality of Lin's material is so low that it doesn't have any quality of it's own because he has made is as simple as possible to learn? (i.e. not useful if you are the only 'tree' like the definition in
Alex K. Viefhaus link)

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Originally posted by Brutha:
That means the quality of Lin's material is so low that it doesn't have any quality of it's own because he has made is as simple as possible to learn? (i.e. not useful if you are the only 'tree' like the definition in Alex K. Viefhaus link)

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I have a master from China who trained me in the traditional martial arts. It took me three years of training to get to the point where he would start divulging secrets like the push to send someone flying back. In my own experimentation and as a result of interacting with other masters, I figured out how to teach this move in 5 minutes, minus the guru dependency. (Yes, I have taught this even to children.) Traditions change...Considering what we have going here and the number of people using SFQ for self healing, we are not the only tree in the forest.

KWLee

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In my own experimentation and as a result of interacting with other masters, I figured out how to teach this move in 5 minutes, minus the guru dependency. (Yes, I have taught this even to children.) Traditions change...

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Yes traditions change. But you do not get that changing alone by a goal. And after the change their is certainly a difference between the traditions and the new thing.

So what is that difference is the context of SPQ?

In adition the guru dependency seems to be high in SPQ from what i can read in this forums.

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