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I have been curious about something for a while. In my Chinese Medicine manual, and in the other books I've read on the topic, there is an "extra" acupuncture point that happens to fall along the Governing Vessel (Mandarin: Du) meridian. It is located between the eyebrows. This acupuncture point is called yintang in transliterated Mandarin (Putong-hua). My acupuncture manual (Dedman) says it can be needled, etc. This point is usually referred to as the "third eye".
Away from the specific locations of acupuncture points, the "third eye" is referred to as something that may open as the result of the practice of qigong, meditation, or internal kungfu, giving certain psychic abilities to the practitioner.
All of the above I have heard from multiple, credible sources from textbooks, all three of my teachers, and from others on this forum. I also experienced the sensation of "pressure" at my third eye during the two months a year ago when I practiced the most qigong per day of any time since learning qigong, and also while completely abstaining from sex. Because of an interruption of communication with my teacher at that time (that was before I became a Shaolin Wahnam student), I thought it was not a good time in my personal development to have my third eye open, so I resumed and increased my sexual activity, essentially bleeding off enough excess qi to prevent the third eye from opening. I was also feeling the same rhythmic pulsing and pressure in my left laogong as I was in my yintang.
I believe I have a reasonable, working understanding of the acupuncture point yintang and the concept of the third eye, but here's where I get confused. There is another place on the forehead above yintang called tianmu, translating loosely to "heaven eye." I do not find any reference to tianmu in my Chinese Medicine books or software. I assume that tianmu is perhaps similar to Stomach-17, i.e., not needle-able? Or maybe tianmu is simply an energy center known to Taoism, but not utilized by the Taoist art of Chinese medicine? Or maybe the knowledge of how to use tianmu therapeutically is both part of Taoism and Chinese Medicine, but was gradually forgotten or obliterated by the Communists and newfangled TCM?
Can someone please give me the lowdown on tianmu? And, if you don't mind, correct me if anything I said about yintang is off the mark.
Thanks in advance,
Michael
PS—I am totally confident that at the right time in the future my third eye will open. My life was in too much turmoil when it may have opened previously, and I thought it would be dangerous at that time to have to deal with new, psychic abilities, epsecially when there was difficulty communicating with my teacher due to the problem of translation.
Away from the specific locations of acupuncture points, the "third eye" is referred to as something that may open as the result of the practice of qigong, meditation, or internal kungfu, giving certain psychic abilities to the practitioner.
All of the above I have heard from multiple, credible sources from textbooks, all three of my teachers, and from others on this forum. I also experienced the sensation of "pressure" at my third eye during the two months a year ago when I practiced the most qigong per day of any time since learning qigong, and also while completely abstaining from sex. Because of an interruption of communication with my teacher at that time (that was before I became a Shaolin Wahnam student), I thought it was not a good time in my personal development to have my third eye open, so I resumed and increased my sexual activity, essentially bleeding off enough excess qi to prevent the third eye from opening. I was also feeling the same rhythmic pulsing and pressure in my left laogong as I was in my yintang.
I believe I have a reasonable, working understanding of the acupuncture point yintang and the concept of the third eye, but here's where I get confused. There is another place on the forehead above yintang called tianmu, translating loosely to "heaven eye." I do not find any reference to tianmu in my Chinese Medicine books or software. I assume that tianmu is perhaps similar to Stomach-17, i.e., not needle-able? Or maybe tianmu is simply an energy center known to Taoism, but not utilized by the Taoist art of Chinese medicine? Or maybe the knowledge of how to use tianmu therapeutically is both part of Taoism and Chinese Medicine, but was gradually forgotten or obliterated by the Communists and newfangled TCM?
Can someone please give me the lowdown on tianmu? And, if you don't mind, correct me if anything I said about yintang is off the mark.
Thanks in advance,
Michael
PS—I am totally confident that at the right time in the future my third eye will open. My life was in too much turmoil when it may have opened previously, and I thought it would be dangerous at that time to have to deal with new, psychic abilities, epsecially when there was difficulty communicating with my teacher due to the problem of translation.
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