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My teacher gave s the analogy of a room and its function. Its function is to house people and/or things. Its function is only possible because it is empty. If it were not empty nothing can be stored in it. At the mundane level thats how it works. To consider it a bt more, emptiness is the potential where functions may arise.

Define freak-out. Irrational fear or anxiety is associated with what in Ayurveda is called "Vata" (or wind) imbalance. To regulate that, spend your hours in a simple manner, eat vata pacifying food -- Also, avoid extremely cold or hot weather, drink room-temperature water...plenty of water. Do gentle stretches etc. Ghee is clarified butter (you can find it at any indian grocery store) and it is great for regulating vata. Back off from doing energetic cultivation, your body needs to get used to dealing with the energy first. Do some standing meditation, focus on your LDT and bubbling wells...try and release energetic build-ups into the earth (but don't overdo it). And stop intellectualizing so much...don't give a crap about "which chakra, what effect, etc". Too much intellectualizing moves energy into the head. Walk a lot (don't run)...maybe 3-4 miles a day. Go to bed early -- easy to sleep well if you are physically tired. Good luck! PS. Don't be too hard on yourself. Usually when you churn in the deepest recesses of your being, crap that has fallen to the bottom tends to surface. Recognizing the crap for what it really is (CRAP) and letting go of it (ie not obsess with it) will help you get through it. I still have residual effects of this that started 3-4 years ago. Just be patient and try not to be self-obsessed.

More evidence to show that materialism unchecked cannot coexist with spirituality and reminds us of the importance of resolving latent psychoses in presence of a genuine teacher. It also shows that organized spirituality is an oxymoron...only independent quest matters...on that lifes greatest quetions must be delved into in slitude of the self....not in a group.

Take up taiji chuan

So you practiced some tui shou as well? Or was it just the 108 form set? And we ever did hear your theory about bioenergy and ATP...do share

Newtons third law

In that case you are using your own external force to trigger internal response....like compressing a spring by pushing it against a stationary object...

All the explanation I have heard suggests that either they (those who told me how it works) are wrong or you are wrong. Based on what I know, external force is absorbed through the bone structure and issued back through the connective tissue of the body, not muscle. Muscle works in a localized manner, connective tissue works holistically. Also when I have felt it in my own body, it has felt like a wave simultaneously sinking down and rising up. Eg, in the push form, there is wave that travels down from the finger tips, back and back leg into the ground while simultaneously a wave travels up from the back leg, waist, back, shoulders, arms and out through the finger tips. this is a sensation that is different from the localized qi that we get with the empty vs full limbs or parts of the body. When my teacher issues jin (very mildly) during push hands, it feels like electricity, not a force vector from a purely mechanical action.

Hi chidragon, I can empathize with your need to correct misconceptions regarding your native knowledge system. May i suggest that you posit your major issues regd taiji misunderstandings and how you see they can be removed (ie wrong knowledge). The borderline combative, condescending approach that you demonstrated doesnt do much in terms of illumination. I asked your whether you consider jin to be a result of musclular action and you said yes. But imlk, force from muscular action is li. Jin is internal force, rising from transformed qi. Thats why it feels like electricity sometimes and has wave like characteristics...it is non newtonian. It is hard to "interpret" words from a foreign language into another. I see that all the time in sanskrit and topics of yoga etc. its bet to let jin be jin, li be li, qi be qi...because they are untranslatables... One can give analoges...eg qi is like .... Or jin is like...etc.

I have had similar experiences. In most cases i just walk away...in one specific instance i could not. I used to work fr a major stock exchange at that time and there was a major power outage in our datacenter. I got called in on an emergency, all hands on deck kinda call...and i took the elevator to the office floor before heading down to the basement where the it infrastructure was. As i got out of the elevator, i ran into the cto...a man with a very strong, intimidating kind of energy. And the anger of having a major (human induced) crisis at hand had prbly made him livid. As i got diwn and came face to face, i said "hi...how're you doing" and he directed hs wrath at me. I felt my center waver then i almost automatically regained control. The look on his face was almost comical as i took back control of my energy ( where subconciously he was prbly used to bulldozing small-fries like myself)...i respnded back to his angry retort of "how do you expect im doing this morning" with "dont wrry...we are here, we will take care of this situation" in a unthreatened, friendly maner. The intensity of the situation dissipated and ge started smiling....

Vajrahridaya Why i am enlightened by just hearing that name

as odd as it may sound, high kicks in real life application are very rare precisely for the same reasons. I practiced Goju Ryu Karate for a few years and my teacher always told us to not use high kicks in street fights, but to do sweeps and target knees and ankles to maximize damage, minimize effort. But like you said, the choice is the fighter's based on his/her experience and skill.

That is such a cool design idea Chi Dragon T shirt design? This one's better -

Hey that Chi Dragon's avatar!! I want one too

Its got to do with opening and closing. Fully extended arms and legs (joints) are closed. Opening and closing have to be slightly mixed with each other, so one can transform into another...that's why arms and legs are not fully extended, imho. (implication is that open and close are associated with yin and yang respectively)... I need 2 gold stars a chi dragon T-shirt now

Okay...then we don't have anything further to discuss

So in your opnion fa jin is force resultung from fast twitch muscle action?

It is used to "deny" absolute bring by manufacturing this elaborate consciousness storage cloud

http://www.gbolarts.com/pages/notes_archive/notes_044.html what exactly is meant by softness? First, do not mistake softness for being limp or lifeless. What we are talking about here is being truly relaxed. You must rid yourself of all bodily tension and stiffness. This will take a lot of dedicated and sincere practice on your part, because no matter how relaxed you may think that you are, you can always become even more so. Each time you practice, spend sufficient time with your loosening warm-ups, (neck, shoulders and waist), so that you release any physical tension. Then go into Preparation, and stay there until you can truly calm the mind. If the mind is not calm, the body will not be either.

Amazing! I'm sure that wasn't the way you wanted to learn it... A japanese girl who was my physiotherapist was also a black belt karateka. She would talk about her teacher having extreme yang power that he wasn't completely able to control. So, he would sit in a room in middle of chicago winters with windows wide open, sweating and red (i forget the sensei's name).

Hi Taomeow, Thanks for the anecdote. How did your teacher accidentally fa jin you?

My teacher refers to fa jin process like throwing a stone....or shooting an arrow...in that the jin is directed and let go off...its easy to conceptualize but hard to do.. Do you have any thoughts on this you wouldnt mind sharing?

Fa Jin is not hard...the effect is...