1. Higher Thinking G-Dantian 2. Lower Thinking G-Dantian 3. Higher Feeling G-Dantian 4. Lower Feeling G-Dantian 5. Instinctive G-Dantian 6. Moving G-Dantian 7. Sex G-Dantian

So remember that in Gurdjieffian Taiji, the object of development and display should be from the many dantians besides the traditional Taiji Dantian below the individual’s navel that is equivalent to a moving G-Dantian of the moving center of man.  A seven-folded Gurdjieffian Taiji would have a universal control over a real world.

Other upper dantians are shown in the diagram below:

One needs the shifting of the locations of the 3 dantians in harmonious development instead of merely relying on the lower dantian as the "true source" of Qi. Shifting of gravity-centers to the head, to the chest, to the abdomen and back to the chest and then to the head is necessary to achieve real harmony in man.

15   Standing on legs

Here stands a "modern-clothed professional" man in the Aquarius Age.  Where should center-gravity Qi be located?

What nature provided!  This is naturally strange to many.  We are standing bipeds after all.  The Qi will naturally fall by gravity downwards.

Standing on hands

What you have to provide!  It is a healing anti-nature.  This must be made natural too!  We do this for healing purposes.

Relax at the region above the chest, the tummy and the legs and maintain the tension on the shoulders and hands.  Negative (-) Yin at the top and positive (+) Yang at the bottom.  The Qi would flow down into the hands.

16   Taiji is able to correct disharmonious breathing and uneven distribution of inner muscular tension in my early years restore harmony to my planetary body in my later years.

17   Hatha Yoga postures do not stress the importance of moving-towards-the-next-posture.  However, Taiji stresses the importance of movement from one posture into another in an unbroken chain.

In both cases, the moving-towards-a-posture, and the moving-away-from-a-posture must always be conscious, slow and relaxed.  It must be an awareness movement.

Although yoga postures are harder to acquire and once acquired take an appreciable time to unlock, Taiji postures are simple and they can be acquired and unlocked fairly rapidly.

These are esoteric physical postures.  We also have the postures of the meso-exo-orders that consist of dances at classical, folklore and pop level.  And finally, we have postures from the Confusion of the Tongues.

On a different scale, we have social postures due to institutional demands from our sociocosmos such as ergonomics and motion postures that are necessary for production and social functions.

18   In practicing Qigong, mobilize your Qi.  Let it flow inside your body.  Occasionally, you might experience tension, tightness, pressure, blockages and nerves tinkling.  This is normal at this stage of the Qi-work.

When we think our Qi is concentrated in our thinking, when we feel our Qi is in our feeling and when we act, our Qi would be in the physical parts involving in the act.

Let everything flows in you smoothly.  Thinking to feeling, and feeling to action and vice-versa.  Treat them all as water and that you are practicing Taiji.  Qi is not equal to blood because blood is a physical body while Qi is a vital body.  The major passage of the Qi is in the system of acupoints and meridians.  Qi is not thought or feeling.  It is a vital physical energy originated from the instinctive-moving-sex centers.

19   Moxibustion is less suitable for the heaty type of man.  It is more suitable for the non-heaty type.  Acupuncture is suitable for both the two types of man, just like acupressure.  A normal person does exhibit "tender pain" in the acupoint.  You can condition an acupoint so that it will be less tender to pressure.  Acupoints can be regarded as a target in martial art.  Attacking on certain acupoints can numb one’s arms and legs ........

20   In performing the Taiji movements, the maximum inner effect is produced when the three elements (or indicators) of the circulating Qi appear.  The three elements are Aching, Burning and Vibrating (ABV) in the Yang or tension area of the body.  Whereas these are the evidences of successful inner and outer Taiji performances, the absence of ABV means mere mechanical movements that change nothing inside.  The ABV signs are indications of burning diseases out of the weak regions of the body.

21   In yoga exercise, the aching, burning, and vibrating (ABV) sensations should be sought for as they indicate the healing processes going on in these troubled areas.  When these sensations vanish and the postures are acquired easily, the healing process is already over and the patient is cured.

25   The essence of Taiji is not defense.  It is the harmonious development of man.  In your life you rarely fight more than 7 times, therefore Taiji’s aim is not for such a small defense.  There is something greater than this.  It is the unfolding of your Dao and the Dao of the universe.

Some see in Taiji the prospect of business.  Many see it as a way to good health.  A few see it as a savior from the precarious situation and ruin as a result of the merciless conditions of modern civilization.

If your complexion is poor, your skin is pale and the body is weak, and exhausted, practice Qigong, Pranayama, Taiji and Yoga.

26   "Haida Yoga" is a new Gurdjieffian Yoga "Haida" means in Russian a peremptory call, as when somebody gives an order and wishes it carried out at top speed.  "Haida Yoga" is therefore a "quick yoga" which gives the pupils the possibility of learning much in a short time.   (From Our life with Mr. Gurdjieff,  P. 44 by Thomas de Hartmann).  The fourth way serves this shortcut.

27   "What helped me was to look at myself as if from the outside, and laugh."  (Thomas de Hartmann)

28   Kama Yoga is practiced with the opposite sex for objectivity and naturalistic purposes.  It is a natural trialectics of man and woman in the sociocosm.

29   The heating of the various internal parts of the body by the internal method of directing the Qi should be utilized to cure diseases and heal the body.

30   Yoga is static equilibrium wherein the Qi of the body is locked in a special way so as to produce healing by parts.  Little is emphasized on motion.  Taiji is dynamic equilibrium wherein all locked up Qi of the body is to be set into motion to produce all rounded or integrated healing.  Little is emphasized on rest.  The unity of Yoga and Taiji is amongst the most effective combination for developing the physical body and for restoring health.  You either exercise in rest (Yoga) or in motion (Taiji).  But you must work towards motion starting from rest and ending in rest after motion.  This is an important principle to follow if you practice the two exercises together.

31   If Qi rises and tenses up the upper region of the body and causes discomfort, tightness and pain, do the Horse Stand to sink the Qi back into the dantian.

32  I told him at one of (Chang Chih-Kang) these sessions (Taiji sessions) that a drunkard has perfect relaxation.  Is this what we are seeking for?  For, if so, it would be easier to uncork wine bottles then to undergo the rigorous Tai-Chi discipline.  "No," he said," we do not seek this state.  For the drunkard gains relaxation but sacrifices his "ee" (mind or intent) to the drink."  (P. 44, line 15, Chinese Boxing by Robert W. Smith)

33   Where the mind focuses, there the Qi goes.  If the mind focuses in the World of Knowledge, the Qi also goes into this world.

34   Karma yoga, the law of actions and reactions of human interactions teaches us that if a negative action is applied to a person, an equal and opposite negative reaction will be generated against the applier.  The actions and reactions do not act on one another immediately.  Their effects are often felt much later as the interacting processes which function in accordance to basic psychological laws.

35  "What you do not want others to do to you, you must not do to others."

This Confucius saying is based on the understanding of a basic law of human interaction, the psychological law of actions and reactions.  It is karma yoga.

36  Kundalini probably so called is a view of the serpents emerging from the human organs and conducted by the parasympathetic nerves.  These serpents creep out from their nests (organs) especially at night when the brain center and its sympathetic nerves are resting, offering them an opportunity to venture freely throughout the whole body and even to the brain center itself.

If you do not develop your serpent power, you are heading for trouble; if you do not develop your thousand-petal Lotus (brain) you too will be heading for trouble too.

37  Yoga dams the river of Qi, whilst Taiji opens it.  Both the static and the dynamic methods deserve equal attention in the development of the human body.

In the eyes of Fourth Way, there are four Yogas.

a)   The Yoga of Carriage

b)   The Yoga of Horse

c)   The Yoga of Coachmen

d)   The Yoga of Passenger

And the Yoga of Carriage is divided into

i)    the Yoga of the Moving Center

ii)   the Yoga of the Instinctive Center

iii)  the Yoga of the Sex Center

These are the internal yogas and these yogas are developed in us through “The Programs of the Work.”

38   What kind of diseases would be a subject matter for healing objective in Taiji, Yoga (Hatha) and Acu-Therapy?

They are:

39   The Internal Meridian System should likewise exist for nature.  It could not have been so selective.  The External Meridian System, or the Surface Meridian system with its abundant acupuncture points, will not suffice to cover those internally constructed points located deep in the human body, viz., in the viscera ‑ the organs lying deep in the human trunk.  Surely, in the viscera there are such switching points.

In this case, either very deep penetration is researched on or other means of internal work such as Qigong or pranayama could be used to work on these points.  But first, the map of these Internal Meridian Points has to be plotted.

Since these burnt-out-points can be self-healing, unlike the electrical switches, there is a possibility of minimizing the use of needles in the Internal Meridian System during an inner healing process.

40   Yoga, Taiji and the breathing exercises have more effects on the viscera than acupoint work or external massage.  The acupoints are like switches in the meridian system.  They occur in the overlapping regions of the nerve plexus that indicate the switch behavior.  The visceral organs are like the bulbs.  Both the visceral organs and the acupoints are transmitters as well as receivers.  If the bulbs do not glow, the acupoints become tender and if work is done on the acupoints the bulbs will re-glow.

Acupuncture relaxes the muscles and causes the Qi to flow.  When Qi waves build up against a tense and block-up acupoint, the body feels uneasy and weak.  It is prone to diseases.  Acu-therapy is a way to ease these dis-eases.

A weak Yin-man whose Qi-waves are not strong, is best treated by moxibustion or infra red ray therapy as they will generate Qi-waves and at the same time open up blockages at the acupoints.

41   The abdomen has to be constantly massaged.  Forces of various strengths, on various areas and directions have to be applied to make it responsive.  It must be made to be like a bag or the palm of a hand that can contain, absorb and throw out an object that acts on it.  Continuing working using these guiding principles will ensure a powerful abdomen.

Before practicing yoga postures which involve the head stand or any other inversion of its kind, remove the bowel to ensure no toxic waste from the rectum could flow back to the upper intestine to be absorbed back into the body.

42   The division into Gong-li (power) and Chuan (form) when the physical center action takes the characteristics of movements-specifics known as The Art of self-defense, is necessary.  Gong-li is the essence of the physical body it is different in different people.  Chuan is an external art form that can be easily acquired.  Gong li is the content and Chuan is the form.  Just as the form acts on the content so Chuan acts on Gong-li.  Correct form of Chuan practiced for a long time, opens up the economic use of Gong-li.  Strong and powerful Gong-li begins from one-foot, secondary Gong-li(s) begin from the waist and even the shoulders.

Both Gong-li and Chuan depend on each other.

43  In Hatha Yoga only related muscles for a posture are kept Ha (Yang) or tension and unrelated muscles remain Tha (Yin) or relaxed and when changes occur Ha should change to Tha and vice-versa.  Thus, one should always perform an inner world tour to separate the Ha and the Tha and place them in the proper place and in a proper state.