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Muscle/Tendon Changing and Marrow/Brain Washing Chi Kung: The Secret of Youth (YMAA chi kung series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Yang Jwing-ming
Publisher: Ymaa Pubns
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 805577
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 302
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0940871068
Dewey Decimal Number: 610.951
EAN: 9780940871069
ASIN: 0940871068
Publication Date: August 1989
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Book Description
A presentation of the most effective way to gain health, longevity, and enlightenment.
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 VARRY INFORMATIVE December 24, 2007
VARRY INFORMATIVE! EXTREMLY DEATAILED! GOOD AUTHER VARRY OPEN AND WILLING TO EXEPT NEW THERIES AND SINENTIFIC INVESTIGATION! THIS INFO HAS BEN SECRET FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS AND IS NOW JUST STARTING TO BECOME AVALIBLE! GET THE BOOK BEFOR THIS ONE TO!
 Important but not enough December 12, 2007
The book is dangerous because:
Dr Yang admits he has no first hand experience and does not include any comments by any living masters who have experience in Marrow Washing. This is extremely discouraging because we don't learn this until near the end of the book (page 213) and also because there are difficulties in translating these ancient texts. Without first hand experience there is chance that something is mistranslated and that could lead to incorrect training and serious injury.
I doubt there is enough detail to complete Marrow Washing through all the levels. Nor do I believe you can correctly learn Muscle Tendon changing exercises with his limited photos. Lots of info here, but be prepared to buy one of his videos (the muscle tendon video references yet another book for breathing instructions!) and also buy books by other authors such as Mantak Chia. Still, you will never be able to verify that any living person on the planet has been able to read Dr Yang's book and complete the Marrow Washing based on his instructions.
I give Dr Yang 3 stars because the information seems important and is rare.
The search July 27, 2006
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
Very interesting, but you have to have the courage to gamble with your health. Yet if you already took a dive from a mountain top "a la Castaneda" you might enjoy it.
This book is rare and precious May 19, 2003
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Richard S said it all, and well. My only additional comment is that the format of this book is structured quite simply, and it is ideal. First, the exact original Chinese text is included. This preserves this rare information, and offers scholars the original words to research themselves. Then, an exact English translation is offered of the Chinese. This can sometime read 'choppy' because it is quite hard to translate between ANCIENT Chinese and modern English - due to the fact that many words and phrases from ancient China only existed in Buddhist Qigong society and were unknown in the Chinese language otherwise.
Lastly, Master Yang offers his explanation of the translation, based on his decades of experience - without all the mystical nonsense, and with detailed explanation of what is happening in the body from a modern, Western scientific view.
It doesn't get better than that.
And yes, this training is only for people with the time and will to commit to careful practice with the guidance of an experienced Qigong master. This is one of the few Qigong practices that is potentially dangerous. If your 'master' doesn't know the information in this book, and you intend to study Yi Jin Jing, find another master. If you want Qigong for health, longevity, and general benefits, practice a different set of Qigong.
This training is to transform the physical body to a state at which it will be physically capable of supporting your energetic body in your meditation practice, so that you may have the physical stamina and mastery of your Qi circulation to pursue enlightenment. Nothing less. Without this training, do not use the word "enlightened."
The author of the original text, Bodhidharma, was very clear in saying that without this internal cultivation, all search for enlightenment will be in vain. Don't waste your life!
Valuable source material about transforming vital energy March 28, 2002
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Yang uses Buddhist and Taoist documents, reproduced and translated section by section, to explain the esoteric training methods Yi Jin Jing and Xi Sui Jing. The first method generate qi to strengthen muscles and tendons, the second teaches Huan Jing or how to return vital energy through the spine to energize the brain. Evidently very baffled by certain aspects of these exercises, Yang sometimes has to conjecture. His translation is uncertain, yet this description includes valuable source material withheld in the popular books by Mantak Chia. This is an early work of a prolific writer who could really use an editor, and readers may find the non-standard Cantonese transliterations rather puzzling.
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