Mo PaiArchive

Section

Practice

5 articles in this section of the archive.

Chinese chart of the dumai or Governor Vessel: a seated figure in profile with the channel running up the spine, over the crown and down to the mouth. The Training Method Everything the sources actually say about what you do, assembled in one place. 13 min read A large stone taijitu — the black and white yin-yang disc — set into paving. Yin Qi, Yang Qi, and the Theory What the tradition says is happening inside the body, in its own terms and in the terms its Western readers reached for. 10 min read An archive plate: a simplified seated figure with three red currents rising from the abdomen into the head and an arrow escaping the crown. Safety Not boilerplate. The classical literature on internal practice going wrong is old, specific, and worth reading. 8 min read An archive plate: a seated figure on a hatched earth line, with green currents drawn upward into the body and a red wire running down to an earth stake. The Ground Why the practice insists on bare earth, what it claims comes up through it, and how much of that instruction is actually old. 8 min read An archive plate: a horizontal line with a fine wave above it and fading stippled dots below, and a red marker sitting exactly on the line. The Borderline State The condition the sitting is supposed to happen in — treated as a precondition rather than a result, and the real bottleneck in the whole method. 9 min read