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• Basic Yin Yang Physics, Book I
• Static and Dynamic Principle of Tai Ji Quan

What is the Vital Hidden Force of Life?

Article I.

The Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi): the most significant hidden issue within the Difficult Classic (Nan Jing).

Among all ancient Chinese medical books, the term “The Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi)” first appears in the Difficult Classic (Nan Jing), whose origins are attributed to date back 1800-1900 years ago. The Difficult Classic (Nan Jing) is a book of answers to 81 Difficult Questions about Chinese medicine, mostly related to the Internal Canon or the Canon of Medicine (Nei Jing), a compilation of the most valuable sources of Chinese medical theory and experience which dates back to before 300 B.C.

The Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi) constitutes the most important integral part of the answer to the eighth Difficult Question.

Q: The pulse sites on both wrists appear to be normal, why sometimes death occurs?

A: It goes like this. All the twelve Acupuncture Meridians are connected to the source of the Living Energy. What makes the source of the Living Energy to become the root and base of these twelve Acupuncture Meridians is the Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi), which actually is the base of the five Yin and six Yang visceral organs, the root of the twelve Acupuncture Meridians, the Gate of Breathing, and the source of the Triple Warmer. It is also called the Spirit defending against the Evil. Therefore, energy is the root and base of a human. When the root is dying, the stalk and leaves will soon wither. All the pulse sites may appear to be normal but, owing to the dying of the living energy within, death sometimes occurs.

The Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi) also constitutes the most important integral part of the answer to the sixty-six Difficult Question.

Q: The source of the lungs appears at Tai Yuan... The source of the Triple Warmer appears at Yang Chi... Why the transport acupoint is regarded as the source of each of the twelve Acupuncture Meridians?

A: It goes like this. The transport acupoint of each of the Yin visceral organs situates within the pathway where energy stays and stops.

Q: Why are all the acupoints where the Triple Warmer passes also called the source points?

A: It goes like this. The Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi) is the life of a human, the root and base of the twelve acupuncture meridians. Hence it is also called the source. The Triple Warmer is the alternate envoy of the source of energy...

According to the Difficult Classic (Nan Jing), the Moving Energy Amidst the Kidneys (Shen Jian Don Qi), situated below the navel, can be regarded as the life of a human and the root of The Gate of Breathing amongst others. Indeed this energy is a vital one, but due the lack of elaboration concerning this energy, the terminology becomes a very important issue. This hidden issue automatically initiates many questions like these below, none of which have ever been properly addressed or answered. Hence, this difficult term can be treated as the difficulty within the 81 difficulties (Nan Zhong Nan).

Some of these questions are: Where does this energy come from? Since it is a mobile energy, how does it move? What is its speed and strength? The location of this energy is mentioned to be roughly below the navel. What exactly is it that is situated below the navel and is it possible to palpate its presence? If so, how?

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