Articles
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Starting Point
Jie Kong (Oleg Cherne), 17 April 2024
The art of learning is a process that must be mastered over time. A fundamental concept in this art is mastering tools like the compass and ruler. But what does this really mean? When someone […]
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The Art of Energy Reciprocity
Jie Kong (Oleg Cherne), 9 April 2024
The Art of Energy Reciprocity embodies the essence of mastering the flow and return of energy as an essential aspect of the learning art. This process is instrumental in bolstering one’s inner strength through a […]
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Elixirs in Internal Alchemy (neidan)
Jie Kong (Oleg Cherne), 11 March 2024
The list of elixirs used and obtained in internal alchemy (Nei Dan, 內丹, internal elixir, cinnabar) is quite large. Moreover, elixirs can be both external and internal. The most famous animate elixir bearers are the […]
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Daoist body (daojia tu)
Jie Kong (Oleg Cherne), 11 March 2024
The Daoist body is a fundamental concept in the inner work system of Daoist yoga and alchemy. This concept is used within sacral anatomy, and it is extremely important for those who want to understand […]
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The essence of Daoist Alchemy (daojia neidan)
Jie Kong (Oleg Cherne), 10 March 2024
Form cannot be considered the essence of substance, although some sources try to assert this. Essence is manifested in the laws of the prenatal, but not in the laws of the postnatal, where the form […]
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Lan Zha Yi
Jie Kong (Oleg Cherne), 26 February 2024
If great knowledge does not flow outward from within, motion cannot continue. Oleg Cherne Lan Zha Yi (懒扎衣) is the second formula of motion. Its name can be translated as “gather up the robe […]
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Development of the Body of Geometry. Development of the Bone Marrow through Movement
Jie Kong (Oleg Cherne), 10 August 2023
Translational motion of the body is an example of locomotion (locomotor movements) – the movement of the body in space resulting from the work of the muscles (the active part of the musculoskeletal system) and […]
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Daoist Alchemy
Jie Kong (Oleg Cherne), 1 February 2022
Daoist alchemy is a knowledge system, a worldview, which underlies the process of personal transformation and lets you free yourself from all crude energy by transforming it. Its fundamental concepts are based on the knowledge […]
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Bagua Zhang
Jie Kong (Oleg Cherne), 12 January 2022
The bagua system has a long, thousand-year-old history. Legend tells that the Gua (卦) trigram-line system was initially introduced by the legendary Chinese emperor Fu Xi (伏羲, 2852–2738 BC). The methods and techniques of Gua […]
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Primary principle
Jie Kong (Oleg Cherne), 12 January 2022
The first order in the Daoist tradition is associated with the Tai He Mountain, or Wudangshan, where Bao Si of the Celestial Empire perceived the nine types of energy. Bao Si, who was conceived from […]
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Honouring Heaven and Earth. Celestial Outreach Ritual
Jie Kong (Oleg Cherne), 12 January 2022
Heaven creates divine things; the holy wise man uses them as a model. Heaven and earth change and transform; the wise man imitates them. There are images in heaven that show good luck and misfortune; […]
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Bagua palm
Jie Kong (Oleg Cherne), 10 January 2022
The palm has a special status in our body, shaped ultimately by the nine efforts associated with the lo shu scheme (The Great Ordering scheme, Luo Shu, 洛书). The palm establishes a special type of […]
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The Trigram — Code of Force
Jie Kong (Oleg Cherne), 9 January 2022
Each of the trigrams is a code of force reflecting one of the eight sectors of the macrocosmic sphere. These eight sectors construct a full sphere and mark its centre. Each sector has a specific […]
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Way of Taiji
Jie Kong (Oleg Cherne), 27 October 2021
Speaking of Taiji Quan (太極拳), we touch upon one of the most complex concepts of Chinese culture, a great art whose heritage has been formed over the centuries and which has a philosophical, practical, and […]
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13 Formulas for the Construction of the Body Geometry
Jie Kong (Oleg Cherne), 22 October 2021
Human nature enables us to cultivate a higher harmony based on the laws of proportion and geometry. They bring us higher knowledge, which in Taoist and Buddhist terminology is called “brocade”. The thirteen formulas for […]
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Jin Gang Dao Dui
Jie Kong (Oleg Cherne), 16 October 2021
Jin Gang Dao Dui (金刚捣碓) is a Taijiquan movement form, which translates to “Great Knowledge Is Pounded in a Mortar,” or “Diamond Power Is Pounded in a Mortar.” This form is also called “Center Protection Form” […]
