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Our good old ancestors, having learned this method,taught it to the general public. Kouk-sun-do(It is called as KSD hereafter except in big titles or main subjects) flourished in the Three Kingdoms Era(around A.D. 300~A.D.700). However, KSD was forced to leave the public and go into the mountains due to the political persecution during the Chosun Dynasty and Japanese ruling period. Thus, KSD descended secretly in the mountains until Master Chungsan met his G.G. (Great Grand) Master Chungwoon. After coming down from mountain, Master Chungsan revealed again it to the public in 1967. At the age of 12, Chungsan met Master Chungwoon at the Tae Hahk Mountain in a strange twist of fate and received lessons in KSD from the Master for more than 20 years. Mastering KSD, he left the mountain in 1967 and started to spread it in public. He wanted people all over the world, regardless of religion, race, and nationalities, to be healthy and enjoy a better quality of the through the KSD practice. In April, 1970, he opened the KSD Training Center in Seoul, Korea. Since then, a great number of people including people of various nationalities as well as Koreans, have practiced it, and have enjoyed a better life. At same time, Chungsan also attempted to train his successors who are now operating branch training centers in many cities all over the Korea. The practice of KSD involves lower abdominal breathing along with special postures. The breathing practice improves and revitalizes the autonomic nervous system and self-healing and restoring forces of our body. Hence, all diseases disappear spontaneously. Continuous lifetime training results in genuine health of body and mind. The major advantage of KSD over other practices is that it is the safest way. KSD has three practicing stages : the Chung Gahk Do stage, the Tong Ki Bup stage, and the Sun Do Bup stage. In the Chung Gahk Do stage, we mainly focus on body training, of course we do the simultaneous training of body and mind. In the Tong Ki Bup stage, we concentrate on spiritual training. In the Sun Do Bup stage, we practice to unify mind and body completely with universe. Without having a complete and healthy body, it is hard to reach a high level of spiritual training. Because lifestyles today are very complicated and lead to the weak body condition, it is not desirable to consider the body as the shadow of the mind and regard only the spiritual practice as of great importance. It thus may be harmful to train just the mind or to suppress the body desire through fasting and penance, Practices, which use the brief and simple methods of expelling the impure fumes(toxine and wastes) of the body and then directly enter the spiritual practice, are not appropriate to us today with our weakened body conditions from living in our complicated society. Since we practice first the Chung Gahk Do stage in
KSD, which mainly focuses on body training, and then enter the Tong
Ki Bup stage, in which we train the spirit intensively, KSD is the
safest and most appropriate method for us today. Moreover,
KSD has nothing to do with religion. Is does not promote any
religious position or faith.
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