edededed wrote:Yet medical qigong, etc. seems to be a part of hospital practice, and the CCP was quite involved in research.
edededed wrote:Yet medical qigong, etc. seems to be a part of hospital practice, and the CCP was quite involved in research.
But it may go up and down with the years. (Falungong seems considered different from qigong by most qigong teachers.). I do think that certain aspects may be hard to teach though.
Michael wrote:edededed wrote:Yet medical qigong, etc. seems to be a part of hospital practice, and the CCP was quite involved in research.
Yes, they did and do, so there is still some acceptance, but I don't know how much. It is certainly unknown to the young people receiving anti-qigong, anti-traditional messages.
edededed wrote:Thanks Michael - Falungong does seem to have been a thorn in the side of qigong communities since around the crackdown - most qigong groups seem to worry about it at the least. And many public qigong masters seem to have left China for other countries as well (such as the founder of Pangu Shengong, as you mentioned).
Trick wrote:edededed wrote:Thanks Michael - Falungong does seem to have been a thorn in the side of qigong communities since around the crackdown - most qigong groups seem to worry about it at the least. And many public qigong masters seem to have left China for other countries as well (such as the founder of Pangu Shengong, as you mentioned).
Many years ago there was a falungong teacher in my neigbourhood back in Sweden, I went there to have a look. The founder of this cult had written two books of which copies where given away for free so I took two and went home. It was written that if one practiced any thing more/other than what the founder had created it would have negative effect on the practitioner, if I remember right one could risk of being possessed by demons and such ...So in this sense falungong probably had a negative effect on the over all Chinese qigong community when understand how many followers this cult had
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