Three Treasures Qigong

Three Treasures Qigong Three Treasures is the Qigong practice of Lindsay Trevarthen. Suitable for all ages & abilities.

Daytime classes in Leek and Ashbourne, workshops & one-to-one sessions in Qigong & therapeutic healing. Qigong (pronounced chee gung) is an ancient and powerful system of healing and energy medicine from China: it means ‘vital energy (Qi) cultivation (Gong)’

It uses breathing techniques, gentle movement and meditation to cleanse, strengthen, and circulate Qi. Qigong practice leads to better health and vitality and a tranquil state of mind: it will help accelerate healing, slow ageing, relieve stress and enhance learning.

Why do the hundred riversturn and rush toward the sea?Because it naturally stays below themHe who wishes to rule over pe...
07/09/2025

Why do the hundred rivers
turn and rush toward the sea?
Because it naturally stays below them

He who wishes to rule over people
must speak as if below them
He who wishes to lead the people
must walk as if behind them
So the Sage rules over the people
but he does not weigh them down
He leads the people
but he does not block their way

The Sage stays low
so the world never tired of exhaling him
He remains a servant
so the world never tired of making him its king

Tao Te Ching, chap. 66, trans. Star

The greatest evil: wanting more. The worst luck: discontent. Greed’s the curse of life. To know enough’s enoughis enough...
02/09/2025

The greatest evil: wanting more.
The worst luck: discontent.
Greed’s the curse of life.

To know enough’s enough
is enough to know.

Tao Te Ching, chap. 46, trans. Le Guin

Practice spot last week…
01/09/2025

Practice spot last week…

Giving people space is a form of universal love that enables them to come back, in time, to their true selves.Hexagram 4...
01/09/2025

Giving people space is a form of universal love that enables them to come back, in time, to their true selves.

Hexagram 4, Meng, Youthful Folly

A Guide to the I Ching, Carol K Anthony

In stillness all under heaven rests.Tao Te Ching, ch. 47, trans. Le Guin.📷 Alison Dunlop
27/08/2025

In stillness all under heaven rests.

Tao Te Ching, ch. 47, trans. Le Guin.

📷 Alison Dunlop

Practice spot this morning
06/08/2025

Practice spot this morning

If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation ever...
25/07/2025

If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. You are this peace. You are happiness, find out. Where else will you find peace if not within you?

~ Papaji ~

The Tao has no nameit is a cloud that has no shape. If a ruler follows it faithfully,then every living thing under heave...
24/07/2025

The Tao has no name
it is a cloud that has no shape.

If a ruler
follows it faithfully,
then every living thing under heaven will say yes to him.

Heaven and earth make love,
And sweet dew-rain falls.
The people do not know why,
But they are gathered together like music.

Things have been given names from the beginning.
We need to know when we have enough names: this is wisdom.

At the beginning of time
The sage gave names to everything - seen, and unseen.

A ruler who walks the Way
Is like a river reaching the sea
Gathering the waters of the stream
into himself
as he goes.

Tao Te Ching, ch. 32, trans. Kwok, Palmer and Ramsey.

When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite ~ William Blake
17/07/2025

When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite ~ William Blake

What seeks to shrinkmust first have grown;what seeks weakness was surely strong.What seeks its ruinmust first have risen...
15/07/2025

What seeks to shrink
must first have grown;
what seeks weakness
was surely strong.
What seeks its ruin
must first have risen;
what seeks to take
has surely given.

This is called the small dark light:
the soft, the weak prevail
over the hard, the strong.

Tao Te Ching, chap. 36, trans. Le Guin

KEEPING QUIETPablo NerudaNow we will count to twelveand we will all keep still.For once on the face of the earth,let’s n...
12/07/2025

KEEPING QUIET
Pablo Neruda

Now we will count to twelve
and we will all keep still.

For once on the face of the earth,
let’s not speak in any language;
let’s stop for one second,
and not move our arms so much.

It would be an exotic moment
without rush, without engines;
we would all be together
in a sudden strangeness.

Fisherman in the cold sea
would not harm whales
and the man gathering salt
would look at his hurt hands.

Those who prepare green wars,
wars with gas, wars with fire,
victories with no survivors,
would put on clean clothes
and walk about with their brothers
in the shade, doing nothing.

What I want should not be confused
with total inactivity.
Life is what it is about;
I want no truck with death.

If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving,
and for once could do nothing,
perhaps a huge silence
might interrupt this sadness
of never understanding ourselves
and of threatening ourselves with death.
Perhaps the earth can teach us
as when everything seems dead
and later proves to be alive.

Now I’ll count up to twelve
and you keep quiet and I will go.

Without opening your door,you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window,you can see the essence ...
02/07/2025

Without opening your door,
you can open your heart to the world.
Without looking out your window,
you can see the essence of Tao.

The more you know,
the less you understand.

The Master arrives without leaving,
sees the light without looking,
achieves without doing a thing.

Tao Te Ching, chap. 47, trans. Mitchell

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