10. Gather Qi with Mind-will
(1) Stand, sit or lie down as you like, the remaining requirements remain the same as above. The mechanism is to extensively collect cosmological Qi and energy information in universe, or collect Qi from different Chinese herbal medicines.

(2) Slowly fall into Qigong state, imagine to receive high-energy Qi emitted by Qigong masters and Qigong ancestors who are located high up in sky, or in universe, or some places we do not know. We imagine those qigong masters is giving you added power, and help to open the obstructed channels and acupoints. At this time please be in good faith, and have a revered, respected attitude for these masters. Only by this means you can receive the high-quality Qi information and energy emitted by those qigong masters who are out of their hermit house or still in their retreat.

(3) This is to use Chinese herbal medicines to adopt a healing effect. According to TCM theory, within human body there are 12 principal meridians, eight extra-meridians, different types of traditional Chinese medicine goes to different meridians. We can imagine some kind of traditional Chinese medicine to be placed on the body side, whereupon within your body the corresponding meridian would have some response. After some time the smell of the herbs may arise and the corresponding meridians may gradually be dredged, to the extent of openness free of obstruction.

11.  Gather Qi from Fire Deity
(1) In the morning when the sun is rising, please look toward the sun, imagine two eyes form a bottom line of an equilateral triangle, the heavenly eye is the triangle center, the occipital pass of brain (behind the head) makes up the top point of the tri-vertebral body. After that, imagine the sun emit energy flow into tri-vertebral body, direct access to the Tri-vertebral body, and would illuminate the Tri-vertebral-body translucent.

(2) Imagine the occipital pass change into a mirror which can reflect all energy and brilliance from the sun that comes into the tri-vertebral-body. Then imagine all the energy flow continues to rain down into lower Dantian, while the triangular body constantly absorb energy from the sun. Looking directly at the sun for sometime, you can see the sun change into a luminous jade plate, surrounded by a halo. With the capacity enhanced, you can see the celestial bodies behind the sun.

(3) If the sun is surrounded by clouds in the morning you can adopt the following approach: two palms face the sun, raise two arms slightly above the shoulders, elbows withdraw a little backward, so that the two thumb point to each other forming one line, and the two index fingers form the two lines of the triangle, the thumb and forefinger pairs of triangular, palms a foot forward from the forehead. Then you can see the sun through the triangle, move two palms to two sides horizontally as you exhale imagine you are break open the clouds. Let go the mind when you inhale and two palms resume the original position. It is one method for training the capacity to open clouds— a very special super power. But it is only one part of the training secret, not all.

(4) Practicing this method for long, you can gradually increase the time of practice (must be done slowly) until at last you can watch the sun at any time, which means your capacity is going up. This method can induce perspective view, a super natural power. But please do not rush to achieve this effect, in order to prevent any casualty

12. Gather Qi from Waterfall
(1) Stand beside the river, the body facing the direction of water flow ( you may also face the waterfall to practice). Two arms at two side of the body, palm facing forward, arms and upbody slightly open as like to welcome the water flow. If there is no river, lake edges cal also works.

(2) Imagine tumbling water flow, as like a dragon, was rolling up and down entering the body via Loagong acupoint and Baihui acupoint. Please keep shaking your fingers before and after, beckoning more Qi of water flow inside the body.

13.  Gather Qi from Thunder God
(1) Thus practice is much similar to Five Thunder palm, a very special super power training method in ancient China. Such training should be carried out in the time of thunder: the practitioners should stand in the outdoor areas without rain, facing the direction of the lightning, two arms stretching forward pointing to the lighting. Attention here please: never stand under a tree or at any places that lightning is prone to strike against.

(2) With the lightning, imagine energy flow within the body becomes to be stimulated and all acupoints are cracked to open, and be in motion in tune with the outside lightning. At this time in the sky the flow of energy in the universe has been electrocuted and stimulated, their energy becomes huge. At this time we imagine all body pores open to admit in such huge energy flow from all directions.

(3) The practice requires certain foundation (otherwise, it is very dangerous), and the presence of a second person should required to do monitoring, to avoid being struck by lightning. Yes, it is very easy to invite strike, no doubt.

14. Gather Qi at Twenty-Four Solar Terms
(1) In Chinese lunar calendar there are twenty-four solar terms. At the moment of alternation between two terms the heaven and earth will meet in a very particular way, and a variety of wonderful changes may occur. The biological universe, plants and all living things, their respective energy flow may incur a quick shift from low energy to high-energy state, as well as their respective changes in the direction of the magnetic field, and then fade away, back to the original state. At this time if we can enter Qigong state, we can experience a wonderful state and help us easily collect Qi from universe, making quick improvement with our practice.

(2) From the human anatomy we know there are seven cervical vertebra, twelve thoracic bones, five lumbar vertebrae, which total 24 in number, corresponding to the 24 solar terms. This coincidence is a manifestation of the concept held by ancient Chinese that human body is a small universe while the heaven and earth forming the big universe. Each one vertebra corresponds to one solar term. Vertebra should be numbered from the top, while the Solar Terms numbered from 1 to 24. So, the first solar term the winter solstice corresponds to the fifth lumbar vertebrae, the fourth lumbar vertebrae corresponds to xiǎohán, third lumbar vertebrae to Dahan, second lumbar vertebra to Li-chun, the first lumbar vertebrae to yǔshuǐ; the twelfth thoracic vertebrae corresponds to JingZhe, the eleventh thoracic vertebrae to Equinox, the tenth thoracic vertebrae to QingMing, ninth thoracic vertebrae to GuYu, eighth thoracic vertebrae to LiXia, seventh thoracic vertebrae to XiaoMan, sixth thoracic vertebrae to MangZhong, fifth thoracic vertebrae to the summer solstice, the fourth thoracic vertebrae to XiaoShu, third thoracic vertebrae to the DaShu (Great Heat), the second thoracic vertebrae to LiQiu, the first thoracic spine to Chushu; the seventh cervical vertebrae corresponds to BaiLu, the sixth cervical vertebrae to QiuFan (Autumnal Equinox), the fifth cervical vertebrae to HanLu (cold dew), the fourth cervical vertebrae to ShuangJiang, the third cervical vertebrae to LiDong, second cervical vertebra to XiaoXue(light snow), the first cervical to DaXue (big snow).

(3) 15 minutes before the alternation of solar terms practitioners can take any posture, relax into the quiet meditation state. Gaze inside to look at the vertebrae the upcoming solar term will correspond to. Imagine all universal energy, from all directions, permeate through the body via all open pores, head to and meet at the vertebrae. Those with capacity of perspective view can see the vertebrae suddenly issue a very bright white light (whereupon, if you open the eyes to look at your watch, the time is at the change of the two solar terms, a difference of plus or minus 2 minutes or so at most; but we’d better not look at the watch, for the better quality of the practice ), 1 minute later the white light disappears. Continue their practice to absorb all universal Qi, 15 minutes later stop the practice.

15. Collect Qi by Way of Non-Collection
This is the ultimate way for internal alchemy practice. Only by such method the internal alchemy practice can be a success. Otherwise, you will be destined to walk to and fro always before the door of great enlightenment. All practitioners aspiring for the enlightenment should master it. So, please go to seek help from enlightened masters.

Appendix:
A solar term is one of 24 points in traditional East Asian lunisolar calendars that matches a particular astronomical event or signifies some natural phenomenon. The points are spaced 15° apart along the ecliptic and are used by lunisolar calendars to stay synchronized with the seasons. Solar terms originated in China, then spread to Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. This is exhibited by the fact that traditional Chinese, Hanja, and Kanji characters for most of the solar terms are identical.
Because the Sun’s speed along the ecliptic varies depending on the Earth-Sun distance, the number of days that it takes the Sun to travel between each pair of solar terms varies slightly throughout the year. Each solar term is divided into three pentads (候 hou). Each pentad consists of five days (rarely six), so there are 72 pentads in a year.

List of solar terms

Longi- tude	Usual translation	Chinese name ¹	Date ³	Remark
315°	start of spring	立春 lìchūn	Feb 4
330°	rain water	雨水 yǔshuǐ	Feb 19	more rain than snow
345°	awakening of insects	驚蟄 (惊蛰) jīngzhé	Mar 6	lit. awakening of hibernating insects. See the note at Chinese calendar#Solar term.
0°	vernal equinox	春分 chūnfēn	Mar 21	lit. spring division (or center)
15°	clear and bright	清明 qīngmíng	Apr 5	time for tending graves
30°	grain rain	穀雨 (谷雨) gǔyǔ	Apr 20	lit. grain rain: rain helps grain grow
45°	start of summer	立夏 lìxià	May 6
60°	grain full	小滿 (小满) xiǎomǎn	May 21	grains are plump
75°	grain in ear	芒種 (芒种) mángzhòng	Jun 6	lit. awns (beard of grain) grow
90°	summer solstice	夏至 xiàzhì	Jun 21	lit. summer extreme (of sun’s height)
105°	minor heat	小暑 xiǎoshǔ	Jul 7
120°	major heat	大暑 dàshǔ	Jul 23
135°	start of autumn	立秋 lìqiū	Aug 8
150°	limit of heat	處暑 (处暑) chǔshǔ	Aug 23	lit. dwell in heat
165°	white dew	白露 báilù	Sep 8	condensed moisture makes dew white
180°	autumnal equinox	秋分 qiūfēn	Sep 23	lit. autumn division (or center)
195°	cold dew	寒露 hánlù	Oct 8
210°	frost descent	霜降 shuāngjiàng	Oct 23	appearance of frost and descent of temperature
225°	start of winter	立冬 lìdōng	Nov 7
240°	minor snow	小雪 xiǎoxuě	Nov 22
255°	major snow	大雪 dàxuě	Dec 7
270°	winter solstice	冬至 dōngzhì	Dec 22	lit. winter extreme (of sun’s height)
285°	minor cold	小寒 xiǎohán	Jan 6
300°	major cold	大寒 dàhán	Jan 20

1. Simplified Chinese characters are shown in parentheses if they differ from the Traditional Chinese characters.
2. Hanja is indicated in parentheses.
3. Date can vary within a ±1 day range.

The “Song of Solar Terms” is used to ease the memorization of jiéqì:

Chinese 春雨驚春清穀天 夏滿芒夏暑相連 秋處露秋寒霜降 冬雪雪冬小大寒 每月兩節不變更 最多相差一兩天 上半年來六、廿一 下半年是八、廿三

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