Nei Jing Tu (內經圖) Explanation - Damo Mitchell

Damo Mitchell gives a 40 minute introductory talk on the Nei Jing Tu chart which is carved into the wall of the White Cloud Temple in Beijing. In the talk, Damo talks about the image in general and gives an overview of the symbolism.
The full, two-hour long version of this lesson, complete with translations of all the Chinese text and poetry, is available on the Internal Arts Academy which can be found at: www.damomitchell.com
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[@glennb8251]

Beauty with clarity, thank you for such an insightful introduction this chart. Much appreciated.

[@darkschneider8508]

Damo Mitchell is a great gift to the world.

[@xHiiTMalRk3rzx]

Gift tot? What’s a gift tot?

[@chubbanino]

One of the best explanation on the esoteric energy system in the physical body and how one can cultivate qi for health, longevity, spiritual development and ultimately oneness with the universe. Thank you Damo for demystifying this invaluable ancient teaching of ours. 謝。

[@tcmLady]

Thank you Damo.

[@jjboozer64]

This is what I like to dive into, good sir. Thank you for your time.

[@jjboozer64]

@@darkchamberfolk4218 uhhh.... Lmao.

[@wupeizhen1987]

Incredible how deep you are in your practice now. I learn neigong in China with a master and even though I speak Chinese I find I don't have the cultural background to back up my understanding, which I often find crippling. That you can read and understand ancient texts is amazing ! When did you start learning Chinese language and culture ?

[@seanlord7177]

Thank you for this introduction to the Nei Jing Tu 🙏🏾 This was simple to understand and the visuals were fantastic.

[@LotusNeiGong]

Great :) happy to be of use

[@otterpupp]

thanks for this! Sadly there is a terrible high pitched noise in the audio... it could be cleaned up with a free program like Audacity

[@cosmic.turtle]

I went ahead and did that and uploaded an unlisted vid here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/opCYYqGjm92AmpY

[@zaetoir3586]

Many people probably can't hear it. It is around 12khz. Some earphones and speakers will not put out a frequency that high and quite a few people, usually past their 20's, cannot hear that frequency range. If you know how to use extensions, you can get different EQ extensions and turn down the higher frequencies and that should work to get rid of it.

[@erdelaer503]

@@cosmic.turtle You're my savior !!!!

[@paulmartin5525]

Thank you for sharing your training and insights.

[@davidsaintjohn4248]

Very cool. Thank you for doing you, Damo. The comprehensive guide is stellar.

[@integracampbell9611]

Wow this is really beautiful and profound I'm amazed at how much wisdom and philosophy can be depicted in one cute little painting!

[@markboudreau1410]

I normally have the attention span of a flea but your presentation here was so interesting I was rivetted through the entire thing and I was just listening at work. Can't wait to get home and watch it. Thank you for this and all your videos ( anchoring the breath, filling the dantian bucket, sinking the chi etc.) which finally explain all those incomprehensible charts diagrams and neumonics that have eluded me for years🙏🙂❤️ RI USA

[@mary-anncarleton7578]

oh man those wheels slow down when it cools down both inside and out! feels good to get those wheels moving again after a long winter. Love the stories of yore.

[@douglaswisoff]

I wonder if leakage of chi associated with the magpie bridge not being formed, is a metaphor for the necessity of not leaking energy by too much talking, in that the denser aspects of our being is prone to much verbal expression with regards to our experience? In Western wisdom tradition this is considered a major leakage of high frequencies of energy as it ends up feeding the density rather than holding, developing and refining energy during certain phases of development . Because it is the tongue it would point to this possibility. Holding the tongue to the roof of the mouth would be a metaphor for "hold your tongue" as in not speaking...it is kinda hard to talk with the tongue up there.

[@merenptahdjednakhet6483]

Thank you

[@dmarthala]

This chart and diagram will explain the crackling ( like fire crackers )'sound in the top of the head when your energy raises up through your back neck like a current..and then u change in physical form ..become more strong and can see with clarity !! And one apple can be sufficient to keep u active and buzzing your hair on your hands and back with energy..all day :)

[@YaronMayer]

Thank you for the detailed explanations. interested to learn more

[@LotusNeiGong]

You are welcome 🙏

[@cosmic.turtle]

There is a high pitched sound that I find quite disturbing. I could remove the sound and send the video to you if you would want to reupload. Let me know. I will be doing it for myself right now. Thank you for the great explain action! Edit - here's the link to that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/opCYYqGjm92AmpY

[@internalizemastery4311]

I went ahead and made the update then uploaded it "unlisted" (so it wont take any of your views here) to save my hard drive space: kzbin.info/www/bejne/opCYYqGjm92AmpY --- you can download using the youtubepp.com site if you want. Thanks again!

[@alwayscuriousalwayslearnin]

you explain it the same way as I learned it long ago and still understand the way of Taoist thought and process

[@privacyghost]

Great job. Thanks

[@marcmaclellan3503]

Snow flakes of wisdom that build to a avalanche .......Thanks your such a gift always blow away with your knowledge.

[@romymineo5893]

a thousand thanks

[@AikidoAliveUK]

Hi Damo, Is it correct to fill out the Mingmen lower back and hoist/pull up the perineum/pelvic floor to get a better sense of where the Tantien is located? I always found it difficult to ‘enter’ from the front and focusing the breath into the kidney/lower back area seems to help?

[@dmarthala]

feeling Very lucky to get a overview grasp of wat it means..since I have seen this wooden carving on the wall of master ip 's kungfu acadamy in the legend of brucelee tv show !!

[@kenbaggs2075]

Thank you Damo. Interesting fact about the separation of the 4 points to get formation of the 'dantien'. What do you do if you have adhesions within the ribcage 'abdominal contents' area. Will it still be possible to separate the 4 points? Regarding te magpie bridge on how to know if its 'formed' as you mentioned; does its formation depend on having opened the mideyebrow and forehead points?. Also does the pallet 'dome up' as in your should feel a doming of teh pallet when you do the reverse breathing process?

[@LotusNeiGong]

Interesting questions :) Adhesions should be fine as the points that move and separate will adapt to this. If the magpie bridge is formed then the roof of your mouth will deliver a very slight electrical current into the tip of your tongue when you touch the tongue to the roof of your mouth. The roof of your mouth will change shape over time, yes. Some people have a slightly deformed roof of their mouth and this needs to change to a fair degree before the magpie bridge will form. This is more important than opening any points on the region of the head :)

[@kenbaggs2075]

@@LotusNeiGong Thanks Damo, appreciate the the points. I think I was lucky about not getting 'stuck' too much into my head as initially when I started a lot of emphsis was placed on feet and legs so I suppose my intent was always down and hardly ever up.👍

[@geeb3376]

what are some good books to dive into this material?

[@AndreaLoy81]

What's that noise that sounds behind your voice?

[@theprmm]

Hi can you share link the good quality of picture

[@johnblouch1544]

At about 15 minutes in: I realize this is an inner door teaching, but on the surface, severing the four cords seems like a really bad idea to me. I've been practicing awhile and have had some good progress, but I probably do not approach Damos level and am not trying to sound like an expert or anything like that. Mostly just really curious and sparking some thoughts. I had at one point over compressed my dantian which caused it to not 'catch' as much on the governor and functional channels and so they did not flow as much and it was really bad for my over all health. I'd liken it to as if I bought a new fancy and strong set of pedals for my bike but then the gears were no longer large enough to catch the chain. Luckily I caught myself in time before I did any permanent damage, but I did suffer and it took years to fix myself. But on that line of reasoning I have some real trouble understanding why anyone would want to cut the cords. Isn't that like severing a circuit? Why would the body even develop those circuits if they are detrimental to the whole? And what if 'severing' is a mistranslation? What if it really means to 'cut' through all the stagnation and garbage between the four points and the cauldron so that the connection actually becomes stronger, just like we do with all of the damage and stagnation that runs through all the rest of the channels. I just have some real trouble understanding why anyone would want to cut those cords.

[@voiceoftheearth7091]

Question- if the cliff is the diaphragm why is ming fire and the tree/liver analogy shown above the diaphragm and not just bellow which would be more anatomically and positionally correct?

[@LotusNeiGong]

There are many things switched around within the chart like this. It is a chart of processes rather than accurate anatomy :)

[@tivtag]

Thanks sadly the audio quality is not good and hurts with the hissing

[@synchronicity67]

D gateways mentioned..r they like d chakra areas of yogic philosophy?

[@SnakeAndTurtleQigong]

🙏

[@wiser.kinder.calmer.6530]

Is the MingMen and the Gate of governing channel the same thing?

[@wiser.kinder.calmer.6530]

Have you got videos of going through it in more detail?

[@joelronningen9930]

In the description of this video is a link to a longer, more detailed 2 hour version.

[@LaoZi2023]

Shouldn't there be coins around the feet of the ox? I read that in a translation. Reaping the rewards of the alchemical practice, I believe... And I see the conception vessel logically entering into the throat region; and would this not be the pool of the jade elixir that it enters into?

[@LotusNeiGong]

There are actually several different versions of this chart that are each drawn with variations. Some parts are omitted in some versions of the chart and elements of the drawing are moved around.

[@adriandeng1406]

Great video Damo. A simple-minded question: If the 'water' in the painting is meant to be 'climbing up' (the spine), why is the 'water' flowing under the bottom temple’s gate (next to the right-most red wheel) pictured looking very much as though it is flowing down through it? If 'pumping the water' up the spine had been the desired outcome, why wouldn't the authors have painted the result of the farmers' action in a clear way, i.e. clearly showing the 'water' being pushed up? Looking at this picture as it is painted, it seems to be depicting a river goes down the spine and fills the lake at the bottom of the painting. What of course catches attention is that a gate (underneath the bottom temple) would have been built to partially obstruct the down-flowing ‘water’, perhaps to convert its kinetic energy into some work (as in a water-wheel-powered mill) or into some other form of energy? Just getting into this interesting topic through your videos, and commenting on what I see in the painting with my own eyes.

[@LotusNeiGong]

Sure thing :) The natural flow of water would be down a mountain but this is all about 'reversing the course' which is a large point of the entire chart. The method of reversal is what all of this is based upon. The water moves from the base of the spine into a pool at the perineum 'naturally' and this may be what they are getting at in the image, but conversion of vital substances and fluids goes against this cycle. At least in the early to intermediate stages. On top of that, just to make it worse, even compass directions are switched around in these old teachings :)

[@adriandeng1406]

@@LotusNeiGong Thanks for the insight and looking forward to your more in-depth video about Nei Jing Tu! Good to know not to take the painting’s details too literally. At the same time, it is fascinating that they’d reveal so much precise instruction in the painting but would also carelessly paint the ‘water’ clearly flowing down, gushing out downwards through the three gates, and would paint the river getting wider the further down the spine it goes… while the intention for the practitioner is to get an energy to move in the opposite direction. Couldn’t resist to check if there could be some physical correlation with what is naturally happening in our normal body functioning… Fascinatingly, the cerebrospinal fluid that is produced in the brain’s CSF-filled cavities is naturally ‘pumped’ down through a physical channel formed in the middle among the spine’s nerve bundles.. and when it reaches the bottom of the spine, it is then pushed up the spine (and back to the brain for recycling) on the external side of the spine’s nerve bundles. So there is an actual physical circulation of fluid taking place up and down the spine… Could it be that the downward stream as seen in the painting could actually be pictured correctly, perhaps delivering the jing (?) to the bottom lake? If the physical correlate of CSF circulation had any relevance, the red energy along the banks of the river could represent the rising energy (that is the intent of the practice) carried up by utilising the naturally up-flowing CSF? Not really sure why I’m following up in this way after you responded the way you did… Just finding it difficult to imagine why the author/s of the scroll would carelessly include anything irrelevant in the painting. Perhaps you’ll reveal more about this in the upcoming Nei Jing Tu video/s that you mentioned.

[@huangdineijing9617]

Une nouvelle chaîne qui vous propose une traduction du Huang di Nei Jing en français

[@Sh0ken]

Interested but very disturbing high pitch noice in recording? Can't stand to listen. Put in a high pass filter on the audio plz 🙏

[@theprmm]

Behind the heart the temple is chi chung

[@anthonyrees556]

Where can I purchase a copy of the chart

[@dmarthala]

I would also want to purchese the best copy in colours..plzz suggest a source

[@JGA99]

No sound

[@omkarwaves2146]

6:00

[@user-ow2fe4ye1b]

Ах, как жаль, что нет перевода на русский...

[@LotusNeiGong]

Apologies, i cannot speak Russian :)

[@off-worldentrepreneuring5951]

As one of my teachers used to say when we asked him why it is, and how it is, how is the universe like this, how can it work like this, he replied "不要想为什么，只要学习。 如果您想知道为什么，应该问ET吧" , lols

[@LotusNeiGong]

An amusing response, but I don't agree! I like it though :)

[@SI-ln6tc]

@@LotusNeiGong Please translate the reaponse for the rest of us.

[@djcudworth2355]

Two farmers represent generative organs, no? Ox must be the liver.

[@LotusNeiGong]

Two characters could indeed be that but the Ox is not the Liver, no :)