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Let me teach you some breathing techniques at least. How to sit, walk, and sleep, that sort of thing.” Sitting, walking, sleeping? Guo Jing thought to himself. I know how to do that already! But he decided not to say so, in case it made him look even more stupid. “Brush away the snow from this rock and go to sleep.” This was certainly odd, Guo Jing thought, but he did as he was told.
“Why I am teaching you this, you don’t need to know. Focus on remembering these words instead: “Clear heart, emotions departed, In empty body qi can spread. A dead mind, yet the spirit lives,
“I don’t really know what neigong is. He just told me to sit, breathe and empty my mind. To think of how the qi travels around my body. It was hard at first, until recently when it began to feel like there was a warm little mouse running around in there. It feels so strange!”
“In peacock there is peahen, Just as in color there is gray. For a Taoist fame is ruin, In permanent replay.”
