Chapter 8 What are dantian and chakras

When it comes to qi and dantian, people who study Western medicine and physiology and anatomy will laugh at it, thinking that there is no such thing in the human body. This is ignorance and superstition, or Taoists pretend to be mysterious.If you talk about the three chakras and seven chakras of yoga, I have no objection, because in recent years, yoga has become very popular in Europe and the United States. It is not a big deal to learn yoga in foreign countries without going home. popular.Because this is an imported product, it must be good if it is learned from abroad.Our poor generation! "To have no foreign is not to learn, and to be respected is to have foreigners." A page left in the history of Chinese cultural development in the future must be a sad and pitiful joke.In fact, modern so-called physiology, strictly speaking, can only be called human anatomy.Otherwise, it can be called death physiology!Because modern physiology of the human body is proved by dissecting the body after death, it is not like ancient China, where evidence is obtained from living people.The three dantians mentioned by Taoism: the upper dantian, between the two eyebrows and the part of the diencephalon; the middle dantian, between the two breasts and the part between the lungs and the heart; the lower pubic region, between the kidneys and the kidneys parts of the small intestine.There is also the so-called middle palace, which is the part between the gastric cavity and the diaphragm. These phenomena and functions are all related to the respiratory system when the human body is alive.The dantian is just a synonym for Taoist cultivation concepts. It does not mean that a elixir will be made from it. If there is, it will become colon cancer, heart and lung cancer, or liver tumors. Friends who want to learn Taoism, don’t be superstitious The inner alchemy will really granulate the misunderstanding.

The chakras mentioned in yoga, after the baptism of western scientific culture, the general yogis think it is a physiological nerve plexus, from the diencephalon to the various parts of the perineum, and name them respectively.It is difficult to say whether the chakras are the nerve plexuses; the chakras are closely related to the nerve plexuses, that is a fact.