How is Chi Kung related to Zen meditation?
There are three aspects in all types of Chi Kung, namely form, energy and mind. If you practice only the form, without the energy and the mind dimensions, then you are merely performing physical exercise, strictly speaking not Chi Kung, for there is no training of energy. For an effective control of energy, you have to enter what is called in modern terms ” a Chi Kung state of mind”. In the past, this was called “entering Zen” or “entering silence”. When you are in Zen or a meditative state of mind, you can, among other things, tap energy from cosmos and direct the energy to flow to whatever you want in your body. It is this mind aspect of Chi Kung, even more than its energy aspect, that enables Chi Kung masters to perform what lay people call “miracles”, or depending on their attitude, fakery. The Lohan School of Shaolin and its representatives offer spiritual healing work as a part of its centuries-old religious mission of spiritual upliftment, world service and charitable activities
