The Hibernating Dragon Awoke
The art and practice of developing the chi was passed down by the Yellow Emperor (c. 2690-2590). The distinguished Zhang Yu states: "All martial arts originate with the Yellow Emperor..." Yet there is a reportedly more ancient form of control and mastery of our internal energy, our chi, that predates both Taoist and Buddhist traditions. It is known as the Dark Chi Kung- The Dark Energy exercise.
This form of Chi Kung has been shrouded in mystery, particularly in the West, through almost magical anecdotes of levitation and telepathy. But even in the parts of China and India where it is still practiced in some forms, its power is only whispered about locally.
The Dark Chi Kung has three main forms: the Bear, the Tiger, and the Dragon. For the most part the bear form is missing from the ancient text we have. The Tiger form is referred to as the "the tall grass in the breeze." The Dragon (also known as, Hibernating Dragon) is referred to as "the tree connecting earth and sky." The Hibernating Dragon is the primary exercise of Dark Chi Kung.
The Hibernating Dragon form is the most fundamental and has the same fundamental rudiments as the Tiger form; but, it is also the most advanced. The only derivative of this form of Dark Chi Kung in the West is the through Ram Khalil, whose teacher Ram Ali Hanabal practiced the Hibernating Dragon for the majority of his last thirty years. To this day the only teaching institution that reaches back to Dark Chi Kung, mixed with Dharvian Yoga, has Ram Ali Hanabal's words over the entrance: "In motion you are like an angry monkey, in quietness you are like the hibernating dragon."
The Hibernating Dragon is a motionless standing exercise that first concentrates on the power of your internal chi. This is the flow phase, where "you wade in the waters of your own power." Then you move to the control phase, which most students never leave. In this phase you you absorb the power in the world around you, or as the ancient texts put it: "you still the waters." The last almost mythical phase is the movement without movement. This is how the mighty oak grows from the acorn or the moon controls the waves. "It is the force without movement that causes movement - the hibernating dragon.
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