Fa lun Gong

[Garius666]

I think everyone here has heard of fa lun gong right? I was just wondering is it safe too practice....I mean i read about this guy who like messed up his chi and started like pushing things and moving things with his chi without knowing it. Then he died because of like the chi going wrong.

Also can you actually channel chi to move things and like fly around (qing gong)?

[JusticeZero]

No-one has ever demonstrated those abilities in a way that convinces stage magicians that they aren't doing it all with wires and such. There's a million dollars waiting for someone to demonstrate even the most basic such abilities and has been since I was young. Also, those who claim such abilities usually are pretty creepy characters for whom con artistry wouldn't be out of the question.

There may be something to chi gong, but this isn't Dragonball Z.

[Garius666]

ya but dragonball z is just pure cartoon fantasy....i'm talking about realy things not like shotting kamehameha around the place....like in crouching tiger hidden dragon....is that really possible...and seriouly...if it wasn't possible once who would have the idea anyways...and if it was possible once like in the times of the tang dynasty why can't it be possible now.

[JusticeZero]

Very likely it showed up because on stage or in myth those sort of things are easy, and representative of exaggerated ability (Well, Timmy could jump a long way and he only had two years, what if I met someone who'd trained twenty years?) and then people just talked about the special effects and mistook it for reality - sort've like how there are a number of DBZ fans who pester qigong instructors trying to learn how to shoot ki blasts. (I could hunt the link down that one of them posted..) Then some laymen heard some of those looneys talking about their training regimen and it entered the popular culture.

[MMACHAMP]

is there really such a thing as chi....i mean you watch like boxing on tv and you see how tough these guys are the how fast and effective...how powerful...skillful but i dont think they have ever even heard of chi. Do you get what im trying to say?

[JusticeZero]

It's debatable, but the answer is very likely "no". A lot of things are chalked up to "chi" that really aren't especially related, nor inexplicable. If using "chi" as a visualization tool to achieve these things works, great.. but it doesn't seem like it's something to take literally and it's risky to buy into it fully because of the screwy baggage from pop culture and laypeople who will attribute any number of bizzarre magic powers to you if they hear you mention the word...

...The word gets used very sloppily, and laypeople become angry if you DON'T claim to have magical, supernatural abilities in my experience. I've experienced this when I had several people argue loudly with me claiming that I couldn't possibly be doing handstands/macaco/handspins/other inverted tumbling movements after a demo without tapping some sort of chi power, thus I was deluding myself and lying to them when I told them it was practice and balance.

[fangshi]

Is falun gong safe to practise ? Depends if the government of the country you live in has banned it or not .

[CadetRay]

lol...... i dont know if its fa lung gong is safe or not but i would't partice it cuz the chinese government didn't want it, my sifu said its not safe, n the chance that i might get messed up or die. plus theres a lot more other stuff to partice y risk ur life?

[Sam]

i dont think if chi existed telekenisis would be part of it..... thats rather unlikely.

I also dont think you can risk your life by chi training.... unless it involved lava or some such other dangerous activity.