Earl Grey

What you believe is most important to you, and everyone else with what they hold sacred follows the same rule...this is why there are so many heated discussions on this matter, especially when our friend Starjumper was still around. What I find is that what I practice isn't so much as believing it so much as believing in the basic laws of gravity--it works whether one believes or not. The opportunity to make skeptics into believers, however, is a waste of time and takes what precious time there exists for cultivating into prostituting oneself at a certain point, which is why the demos of the people I know eventually are reserved for potential students or existing ones, and everything else is parlor chat.

I've seen people run backwards, fall over, and when they get back up, they're still feeling the fajin as the push is still happening causing them to run backwards uncontrollably. Terry Dunn has this exact video I refer to and he and my other teachers don't mind people don't believe it or are very certain about how fajin should look like. Nobody should be able to fajin with his face either, but David was on the receiving end of a fajin with his friend's face, knocking him through three crates and breaking them in Hong Kong. The best way to approach these demonstrations I have found is to be both open and skeptical simultaneously, but not contrarian and self-certain.

This is what you refer to, but people still call it fake.

It took me five years of the ten I've studied, but once I finally learned fajin, it felt like all the people so certain of themselves about what is real and what is fake became uninteresting to me. I recall how every time someone was telling me that it's a waste of time to study the internal arts and how certain they were of MMA or their own practice of what IMA can and can not do. There is simply no explanation that satisfies them, but in the end, what I have done works and these MMA people aren't faking their reactions anymore.

https://highpeakspureearth.com/mickey-mouse-batman-and-the-green-lama-tibet-in-the-world-of-western-comics-fiction-and-games/ I am amused how the contrast is with far worse Asian depictions of Tibet, especially Chinese and Indians looking at it through their own stereotypes. Creating "Others" is not uniquely western.

Most internal arts are not taught correctly, especially if taught incomplete or wrong. Most people don't have the patience to dedicate to it a lot of effort and time, as there's no hacking it like some modernists like to do. Those who have fajin and rooting did it properly and gave a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. Those who want it need to do the time and have the right practice--there's no way around it and whether you believe you have it or not, it will show in your skill, not in what you feel.

Depends. One student in our school got knocked into the ceiling fan during a push hands class from the fajin. Yes, Dwai’s teacher is not doing the same thing.

Modi has been on a disinformation campaign for a long time and the ministers in the government have a tendency of underreporting too.

Yes, a video can be easily faked. The above both look fake unless you know what to look for. From a Xin Yi framework: Fung and Mizner both have the skills of linking, rooting, competing, contracting, contradicting, song, and fajin. This is seen in their muscle chains, tendon and joint strength, and the lower back movement. Outside of a Xin Yi framework, I can’t describe what else they are doing relative to their practice.

I can tell you that it's precisely the opposite of that based on my experience with Xin Yi--but I don't hold my breath that anyone will believe it until they feel it, and only when they've trained it can they see what's actually happening with fajin. It's the same thing as this...which is verified both by my teachers JR Rodriguez and Terry Dunn as being the real deal.

It looks like woo to some people, but I've seen the same thing with several teachers...there's actually a little more technical development that has very little to do with qi and the more with the rewiring of the body according to Xin Yi principles that are also overlapping with Taijiquan. Case in point: the MMA people who have come to my teachers have experienced the same thing both seated and standing in attempts to try to prove my teachers were fakes and ended up enrolling later when the results were not what they were expecting.

The part that Taostillness said is worth repeating.

Steve, we hammered things out both on the public moderation thread and privately, so as far as I'm concerned, next week is a new start and everything I hope will finally be behind us all now that just about everything I can say about my grievances has been aired. Moving forward, I can certainly help out with suggestions for improvement, so tomorrow is another day and the hatchet has been buried. Let's just hope that the rest of the forum, past and present, and future, all can find something that works. This isn't splashing watercolors or oil paints delicately on a canvas, this is playing with clay in a workshop: sometimes it's too cold and hard, other times it needs to be held for a little while to develop better malleability from some warmth, then you can play--but you'll always need to allow for a little mess here and there until you get comfortable, familiar, and inspired.

The things you are seeing are relative to your healing and what happens to you. One person doing the same meditation will have the energy do different things for them. It is not a cookie cutter practice. @zen-bear Sifu Terry will answer in detail later.

The problem with this idea is that FP doesn’t work that way—ANY exercise in FP that you do cultivates unique qi that’s intelligent and goes where the healing is needed. And volume 7 however has the sleeper first meditation and volume 2 has the waker-upper.

I will say something more substantive later when I am not on my 2-5 minute limit to make posts since this requires more thought.

Er, no. HHDL does that for basically any Indian leader, regardless of party (and many global leaders too). Tibetan refugees see themselves as guests, and fear angering any Indian leaders - they'll never speak out.

Those crazies are predominantly the alt-right and their “natural alternatives” to cure coronavirus.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/if-modi-wishes-dalai-lama-it-will-irk-china-and-win-india-some-local-support-near-the-border/ar-BB16ngu7 Not to mention the need for international support to distract from Kashmir and recent clashes with China. 🤣

All I can say is you’ve said you’d let this go...twice. 🤣 and you are citing a lot of material from the disinformation campaign from Modi... and I am somehow displaying ignorance. 😁

Need I also say the magic word, KASHMIR?!

"Modi is a self-made man, coming from an abjectly poor background, struggled to the top of Indian political system via hard work. People might say many things about the BJP, but in reality, it is a party for the middle class of India. And Modi has the support of the majority of the Indian polity, vocal naysayers notwithstanding." That's so so wrong. He's an upper caste Brahmin leading a party with only upper-caste brahmins (all North Indians, mostly Gujurati). But sadly the latter is true - it does dominate the middle class, but even in his last landslide, he didn't win a majority of votes. How about his love life and his significantly younger partner? Or how his office is filled with air purifiers? Also, he royally fucked up Covid-19. India will overtake the US soon, and the economy will suffer for years. Ah, right: the whole “Have you ever been to India?” argument much like people tell me Marcos and Duterte are good for the Philippines or that Jokowi being re-elected is good for Indonesia and how Suharto was great. I don’t see much objectivity on your end and don’t claim objectivity on my end either—but the things I’ve cited are so far unanswered by you—something you have done before when you’re not interested in getting to the point. Sure, let it go. 😁

Ain’t saying it’s a left or right thing... Modi is a beast and the hypernationalism along with treatment towards Muslims and non-Hindi speakers doesn’t reflect the achievements you speak of there. Populism and making India into a Hindu state as opposed to secular while changing the traditions like the aforementioned Kumb Mela and very similar approaches to dealing with, critics not unlike Duterte or Bolsonaro for starters. 🙄

Modi is who Trump wishes he were and the the non-Hindi speakers and non-Hindus have very different opinions of the man. Saying you’ve got your sources and talking about the man’s character makes me think of how Trump and George W. Bush’s fans characterized them. BUT: I shall bite my tongue because this kind of exchange ends up the same as when ralis tried to bring up issues and facts during the alt-right era of the forum...