Question: What where One Cloud’s 7 original formulas?

I don’t know Mantak Chia, like Michael & others that seen him all the time while in NY and throughout the last 26+ years,from my understanding these are the old descriptions, alot has evolved over the years. Healing Sounds not sure if they were taught by White Cloud to Mantak Chia; he had other teachers besides White Cloud…Snowlion

The formulas are: The Inner smile, Microcosmic Orbit, Opening the Six Special Channels. The Fusion of the Five Elements, Developing the Immortal Fetus, Enlightenment of the Kan and Li, Sealing the Five Sense Organs, Congress of Heaven and Earth, and the Reunion of Man and Heaven.

Excerpt from Jamapa Mckenzie article

Chia describes the mountain Taoist lineage he was to inherit from I Yun: My master’s teacher, the grand master, had studied under Taoist masters in the temples for 40 years. When this grand master understood enough, he retired to a cave to practice in solitude in solitude. He could not duplicate the environment of the temple in a cave, however. There were no statues, and no one else was around to appreciate such things as rituals or ceremonies. [So he turned inward, and discovered that it was all inside of him.] “After about ten years of studying in the Taoist temple, my master decided to apprentice himself to the grand master in the cave. But like many adepts of his time, the grand master lived a secluded life in a very inaccessible place. It was even difficult to carry enough food for the journey. Eventually my teacher made his way to his master’s cave, but after a short period of introduction, the grand master left his body during meditation and didn’t return to it for weeks. My master ran out of food and had to leave. “The next time he was smarter. When he went to the cave, he took more food and a brush. He dusted off the grand master’s body, which was in a state of suspended animation, and he protected it from predatory animals. The grand master would occasionally come back, open his eyes, and see that he was being taken care of before he’d go out of his body again.

“Finally, when the grand master came back and realized that he would soon be leaving for good, he began to teach the system to my master who stayed with him for about three years.” Once Master I Yun accepted Chia as a disciple, Chia began his studies of the Taoist way of life in earnest. From I Yun, he learned the Taoist Inner Alchemical Meditation formulas of the Inner smile, Microcosmic Orbit, Opening the Six Special Channels. The Fusion of the Five Elements, Developing the Immortal Fetus, Enlightenment of the Kan and Li, Sealing the Five Sense Organs, Congress of Heaven and Earth, and the Reunion of Man and Heaven. It was I Yun Who authorized Chia to teach and heal. One day, I Yun also gave him some advice that was eventually to revolutionize Chia’s approach to teaching. The master said to him: “The Westerners have much knowledge of the human body that can benefit us in our understanding of Inner Alchemy practice. I am too old to learn their ways myself, but you are round and have time. You should study Western anatomy.” So, caking the insights of his master to heart. Chia spent two years studying Western medical science and anatomy. During this time he created several novel methods of dissection because he needed to explore the human body in new and uncharted ways to understand how some of the Taoist Internal Alchemical changes could physiologically take place.