From the author: A confessional narrative about the lessons of comprehending the Tao Being a student of the Master of the Tao is a difficult test for the psyche... of those around you. If I talk on the phone with the senior administrator of the U-Sin center, Lena Noskova, and say hello to the Master, those around me tense up. “Tell the Dragon that I hit the floor with Bai Hui as a sign of gratitude” - who wouldn’t flinch at such a remark?! They may even condemn you for swearing, not knowing that Hui Yin is the point of connection of all feminine energies of the body, that is, the “lower pole,” and Bai Hui is the center of connection of all male energies, the “upper pole.” You can’t explain it to everyone. At the very beginning of the training, the master suggested that I breathe through Ming Men, this is also a point - on the back-middle channel. I didn't succeed at all! And the Master put my palms on his kidneys and began to breathe. I clearly felt two “lobules” moving under the muscles - to the right and to the left, as if expanding and contracting. Then this “trick” scared and delighted me at the same time. But no matter how hard I tried to somehow move my kidneys, nothing worked. Only after three years of study did I accidentally remember this lesson and, having nothing else to do, decided to try my hand. Oh miracle! My kidneys were moving! It was so simple and natural, as if I had been breathing through Ming Meng all my life, I just didn’t attach any importance to it. All night after the opening, I could not sleep and moved my kidneys, like a baby who was given two rattles, and he rattles tirelessly. As they say, make a fool pray to God... The next day I rushed to the mentor with questions. Firstly, I read a lot about kidney breathing, ovarian breathing and other types of breathing. I wanted to hear the Master's version. At the beginning of my studies, his versions surprised me because they differed significantly from the versions of the authors of popular books about the Tao. But over time, I got used to the unexpected. The same picture is observed in psychology: popular psychology can describe a variety of fantastic phenomena, but none of them has been confirmed by representatives of fundamental psychological science. In the same way, the book market is flooded with books about the “pop Tao”, because the topic is becoming more and more popular, and there are very few serious experts who are also capable of writing books. By the way, serious Tao masters in China do not popularize their activities, do not write books and do not allow themselves to be filmed. Only since the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century have videos made by modern Chinese qigong experts begun to appear on the Internet, and there are not many such reliable videos in Chinese. Teachers who inherit the traditions of ancient schools prefer to follow the rules adopted several thousand years ago and pass on knowledge only by word of mouth - to students who have passed the test. But let’s return to our Hui Yins. I asked the Master why the books translated into Russian describe the breathing of kidneys and other liver, but nowhere is there a technique for breathing through “unnatural openings,” namely, through the entry points into the channel. The mentor replied that it was easier to explain to ordinary people the technique of working with energy. After all, if you follow tradition, you must first talk about the main and backup channels, and only then explain what kai-he is and why movement in the Universe and in the human body is based on this principle. Channels and points seem to representatives of Western civilization to be something mysterious and unreal, but all educated people believe that kidneys exist. So it turns out that it is easier to explain the processes of filling the body with energy using reliably known realities. Suddenly it turned out that my energy state had changed after night vigils and moving my kidneys, and it was time to try a new practice associated with “tea qigong”, that is, with tea ceremony as a form or way of working with energy. We drank ten-year-old Da Hong Pao. A rare example, because traditionally this type of tea is drunk young, and only a few.