Quiet

Sitting

The

Ddoist

Approach

for

a

Healthy

Mind

and

Body

By

Chen

Yingning

&

Jiang

Weiqiao

With

an

Introduction

by

Yanling

Johnson

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QUESTIONS

AND

ANSWERS

ABOUT

JINGGONG

(QUIET

MEDITATION

EXERCISE)

THERAPY

FOR

STRESS-RELATED

DISORDERS

,

By

Chen

Yingning

Tfanslated

by

Yang

Shuhui

and

Yang

Yunqin

CONTENTS

Introdution......

Questions

and

Answers

about

Jinggong

A

General

Introduction

to

Jinggong

This

article

was

written

by

Mr.

Chen

Yingning

in

August

1957

during

his

sojourn

as

a

guest

lecturer

at

the

Screen

Hill

Sanatorium

in

Hangzhou,

Zhejiang

province.

After

revisions

by

the

author

him

self,

the

article

was

published

in

the

No.

3

issue

of

the

of

th

Daoist

Association;

1963>

Introduction

All

illnesses

and

diseases

are

treatable

by

medication,

surgery,

or

physical

therapy.

Most

are

curable.

The

ex¬

ceptions

are

cancer,

mankind™s

bane

for

which

there

is

no

complete

cure

by

Chinese

or

Western

medicine,

and

stress-related

disorders

which,

although

less

life-threaten¬

ing

than

cancer,

baffle

the

average

physician.

This

is

an

ailment

common

to

those

engaged

in

mentally

challeng¬

ing

jobs.

Nerves

constitute

the

essence

of

life.

Applying

medicine

to

fortify

nerves

that

had

already

been

weakened

by

stress

is

not

likely

to

produce

the

desired

effect.

Only

Jhiggong

in

its

purest

form

is

the

best

remedy

for

frayed

nerves,

remedy

that

leads

to

healing

without

the

interven¬

tion

of

medicine.

I

consider

myself

fortunate

in

that

what

little

service

I

have

rendered

to

the

newly-established

Jinggong

Therapy

Department

of

the

Screen

Hill

Sanatorium

during

my

re¬

cent

stay

there

was

successful.

Since

I

could

not

stay

there

or

too

long,

I

planned

to

produce

a

manuscript

complete

with

theory

and

specific

instructions

for

the

benefit

of

my

cessors.

However,

given

the

pressure

of

time,

which

s

not

allow

a

leisurely

systematic

narration

chapter

a

ter

c

apter,

I

settled

for

a

question-and-answer

format

40

Questions

and

Answers

about

Jinggonq

-p.

Meditation

Exerciser

I

hcrdpy

for

Strcss-rcldtccd

Disorders

in

which

I

deal

with

the

topics

one

by

one

as

I

go

along.

(The

entries

include

conversations

I

have

had

with

physi¬

cians

and

patients

at

the

sanatorium.)

This

being

a

new¬

ly

established

discipline

with

no

precedents

or

reference

books

to

fall

back

on,

nor

anyone

to

consult

with,

since

medical

researchers

do

not

engage

in

practice

and

those

who

do

have

no

interest

in

seeking

medical

knowledge,

everything

I

say

is

based

on

my

experience

for

more

than

sixty

years,

not

from

teachers

or

colleagues

(what

I

said

about

the

dearth

of

reference

books

and

people

to

consult

with

does

not

apply

to

post-1957

years).

Twenty-seven

questions

and

answers,

plus

an

article

presenting

general

theories

on

Jinggong

and

an

article

on

treatment

of

invol¬

untary

nocturnal

emission,

should

suffice

to

tackle

with

stress-related

disorders.

This

being

no

more

than

a

first

draft,

I

expect

to

have

the

inadequacies

in

understanding,

methodology,

and

diction

remedied

in

a

second

edition.

Chen

Yingning

August

1937

Workers*

Sanatorium,

Screen

Hill,

Hangzhou

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