QUOTE(MPWay @ Oct 13 2008, 05:55 AM)

I want to make it clear again, I'm not saying that qigong cannot be dangerous. It most certainly can. It's just not everyday that people experience problems. Some people may go there whole life without any negative effects.

Keeping it on a respectful level. Also, dont believe everything you read in that Mo Pai book of yours.

In 2001 I first met John Chang, at the invitation of Kostas, in his home in Indonesia. He was a very gracious host, demonstrating some of his ability and allowing us to sit at his table and eat with him. The evening before I left to go back to the UK, John Chang arranged to have people he knew bring keris to his home. This was for the benefit of Kostas, not myself, but many of us got to witness the keris move and hear their stories via Pak John.
Having studied qigong and neigong before I started the Mo Pai practice, I showed some of what I knew to Pak John. He remarked, 'it's like level 3'. Not a huge surprise but very interesting since the Mo Pai and the other school share a common link.
I count several people as friends who have been, or still are, direct students of Pak John. Direct, personal, students. From these people, I know that the training is potentially very dangerous, and that it has killed and seriously injured others. One student in Germany blew a valve in his heart. Others have had strokes.
That certain breathing exercises can-and do-cause serious injury and death has been recorded by others. Bruce Frantzis once wrote about Hung I Hsiang's brother dying of a lung haemorrhage caused by practicing White Crane qigong.
Several methods of qigong and neigong require considerable physical effort. Over exertion or incorrect practice can be dangerous. High blood pressure, and the conditions it can lead to, such as strokes, dizziness, haemorrhoids, impotence, are well documented side effects.
MPWay, whoever you are, I'm pleased you find some benefit to what you are doing. However, you are only studying at a low level-level 2 Mo Pai practices at the most. That given, you are nowhere near being 'someone who knows neigong, and knows it well'. You are at best a relative novice in a system where you can only ever make a very small amount of progress. Level 2 out of 72 levels.
There are enough people around here with plenty of knowledge and experience, so it ill behoves you to be condescending in the manner that you are.
I am making no claims of personal mastery, of being better than others, but I do know about the Mo Pai, and I speak from personal experience, and from reliable sources that I know to be personal students of John Chang. People on this forum know me from when I was a moderator on the old Wenwukuan forum. They know I have some connection to the Mo Pai. I post under my real name, not from behind a forum nom de guerre.
In summation, from the time I spent in the Mo Pai, from my experience and what I have been told by personal students of John Chang, it does not tally with your claims. Maybe one of the western students has shown you a little. That by no means makes you some kind of authority on the practice. I wish you well in your personal practice, but please stop this fiction that you are anything more than at best a beginner with a very small amount of knowledge.
The truth remains that there is only one living person, within this branch, who can claim to know the Mo Pai neigong and know it well, and that is John Chang.
I post this merely to clarify what is real, as opposed to opinion and/or fantasy. As mentioned before I have another school and another teacher now. The unceasing raking over of old ground is not productive to anyone.
Best,
Mike