Bone Marrow Nei Kung: Taoist Ways to Improve Your Health by Rejuvenating Your Bone Marrow and Blood [Paperback]

Mantak Chia (Author), Maneewan Chia (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Healing Tao Center (December 15, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0935621172
• ISBN-13: 978-0935621174
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #705,567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the great "modern" Taoist how-to books..., May 11, 2000

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Plato Rosinke (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bone Marrow Nei Kung: Taoist Ways to Improve Your Health by Rejuvenating Your Bone Marrow and Blood (Paperback)

Truly the best book Mantak Chia has authored. While somepeople question the incorporation of Siddhu-like practices into theTaoist model, "Bone Marrow Washing" is a slap in the face to our modern culture which focuses on energy loss.

Unlike Chia's other books, this one includes techniques for cooling one's internal organs, and dealing with the flow of energy in general. Unfortunately, it lacks perspective and that is why I give it only 4 stars. Chia does not include enough about what sort of mental attitude one should approach the material with. It is overall a very yang document which is in need of balance. When reading this book or doing the practice, one should always contemplate Lao Tzu's words: "empty the mind and fill the belly." Bone Marrow training is not something you can do and then return to your life with the same old destructive patterns. Awareness of one's energy is a 24-hour committment, and when you amass a ton of energy you must also be responsible for refining it.

Be warned: the practice is potentially dangerous. I suggest that anyone interested in it seek out the advice of one who has walked the path before them. END

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent treatment of a heretofore secret Taoist practice, November 19, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Bone Marrow Nei Kung: Taoist Ways to Improve Your Health by Rejuvenating Your Bone Marrow and Blood (Paperback)

I found Mantak Chia's writing style and the many clear diagrams easy to follow. This is one of the few books written on this esoteric and heretofore secret Taoist practice. It is an excellent addition to the library of any serious student of Qigong.

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Folks, Don't Try This At Home..., November 25, 2002

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louienapoli "louieb" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bone Marrow Nei Kung: Taoist Ways to Improve Your Health by Rejuvenating Your Bone Marrow and Blood (Paperback)

This is Volume III of the Iron Shirt series. As far as I know, there is no Volume II unless you count a videotape Chia produced. Anyway, Volumes I and III belong in the library of any enthusiastic tai chi/chi gong practitioner. But the techniques in these volumes are dangerous. Read the books for the theory, learn what's been held back by teachers for hundreds of years, but do not try any of these exercises unless you are working one-on-one with a master teacher, preferably one with training in Asian medicine. Chi packing is very dangerous and it forms a central part of the practices in Volume I. Lifting weights with your genitals is equally dangerous, if not more so, and that's featured in Volume III. Some chi gong teachers shun these practices entirely as unnecessary and unhealthy. Others believe they are enormously beneficial if practiced correctly. If the books pique your interest, find a great teacher and work with him or her on this stuff. Otherwise, keep the barbells at the gym and the book for purely intellectual gratification.