Yang Jwing-Ming > Quotes

“First you must be calm, then your mind can be steady. Once your mind is steady, then you are at peace. Only when you are at peace, are you able to think and finally gain.”
― Yang Jwing-Ming, Tai Chi Chuan Classical Yang Style

“There was a jail with a prisoner in it,” he said, “who was surrounded by mountains of money. He kept counting the money and feeling so happy about his life, thinking that he was the richest man in the whole world. A man passing by saw him and said through the tiny window: “Why are you so happy? You are in prison? Do you know that?” The prisoner laughed: “No! No! It is not that I am inside the jail. It is that you are outside of the jail!”
― Yang Jwing-Ming, Tai Chi Chuan Classical Yang Style

“The real person's breathing reaches down to their heels. The normal person's breathing in the throat”
― Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming

“Expectation is the worst emotional disturbance. What will happen will happen, what won’t happen, won’t.”
― Jwing-Ming Yang, The Root of Chinese Qigong 2nd. Ed.: Secrets of Health, Longevity, & Enlightenment

“Long ago, there was a servant who served a bad tempered and impatient master. It did not matter how he tried, he was always blamed and beaten by this master. However, it was the strange truth that the servant was always happy, and his master was always sad and depressed. One day, there was a kind man who could not understand this phenomenon, and finally he decided to ask this servant why he was always happy even though he was treated so badly. The servant replied: “Everyone has one day of life each day; half of the day is spent awake and the other half is spent sleeping. Although in the daytime, I am a servant and my master treats me badly, in the nighttime, I always dream that I am a king and there are thousands of servants serving me luxuriously. Look at my master: In the daytime, he is mad, depressed, greedy, and unhappy. In the nighttime, he has nightmares and cannot even have one night of nice rest. I really feel sorry for my master. Comparing me to him, I am surely happier than he is.” Friends, what do you think about this story? You are the only one responsible for your happiness. If you are not satisfied and always complain about what you have obtained, you will be on the course of forever-unhappiness. It is said in the West: “If you smile, the whole world smiles with you, but if you cry, you cry alone.” What an accurate saying!”
― Yang Jwing-Ming, Tai Chi Chuan Classical Yang Style

“The Essence of Shaolin White Crane, published by YMAA.”
― Yang Jwing-Ming, Qigong Meditation: Embryonic Breathing

“All culture and tradition which has survived must have its benefits. Perhaps some of them do not fit in our world; however, they deserve our respect. Remember, if you get rid of your past, you have pulled out your root”
― Jwing-Ming Yang, The Root of Chinese Qigong 2nd. Ed.: Secrets of Health, Longevity, & Enlightenment

“Confucius said: “A man who is really wise knows what he knows and also knows what he does not know.”
― Jwing-Ming Yang, The Root of Chinese Qigong 2nd. Ed.: Secrets of Health, Longevity, & Enlightenment

“History is experience. If you do not know the past, you will be lost in the future.”
― Jwing-Ming Yang, Tai Chi Chuan Classical Yang Style: The Complete Form Qigong

“The Root of Chinese Qigong — The Secrets of Qigong Training 2. Muscle/Tendon Changing and Marrow/Brain Washing Qigong — The Secret of Youth (Yi Jin Jing and Xi Sui Jing)() 3. Chinese Qigong Massage — Qigong Tui Na and Cavity Press for Healing (Qigong An Mo and Qigong Dian Xue)() 4. Qigong and Health — For Healing and Maintaining Health 5. Qigong and Martial Arts — The Key to Advanced Martial Arts Skill (Shaolin, Wudang, Emei, and others) 6. Buddhist Qigong — Chan, The Root of Zen() 7. Daoist Qigong (Dan Ding Dao Gong)() 8. Tibetan Qigong (Mi Zang Shen Gong)()”
― Yang Jwing-Ming, The Root of Chinese Qigong 2nd. Ed.: Secrets of Health, Longevity, & Enlightenment

“history is like a mirror that helps you to see through yourself.”
― Yang Jwing-Ming, Tai Chi Chuan Classical Yang Style

“When the average person goes to an apple orchard, he will usually pay attention only to the fruit. If he goes to a nursery, he will notice only the beauty and fragrance of the flowers. Few people consider that the fruit and flowers are only the result of a great deal of planning, preparation, and hard work. In the same way, when most people see another person’s success, few will stop to think about how that person could be so successful.”
― Jwing-Ming Yang, The Root of Chinese Qigong 2nd. Ed.: Secrets of Health, Longevity, & Enlightenment

“Feeling not disgusted by corruption and evil, Nor eager grasping after desire and gain, Sacrificing not wisdom for the company of fools, Nor abandoning wonder to preserve the truth, Reaching the great Dao without excessiveness, Attaining the Buddha heart without vindictiveness, Keeping not to the path of mere normal holiness, Transcendent of its own creation.”
― Jwing-Ming Yang, Qigong, The Secret of Youth 2nd. Ed.: Da Mo's Muscle/Tendon Changing and Marrow/Brain Washing Classics