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Water sloshing in the barrel.

Do not do visualization / mco if your experiencing any discomfort. Ground your practice in the physical. Learn a wei dan set (a moving chi gung) that integrates your breathing and movement into one act. Taiji could be considered a weidan set if performed slowly and w/ breath intent. There are many forms of chi gung like this, they are not dangerous and double as basic martial art training. It also engages the "monkey mind" with something tangible, as you can "feel" the formless through the form. Emptiness meditations are easy once the natural inclinations towards periodic activity is regulated into a routine. Air is cleaner, Water fresher, Food tastes better, and rest is deeper than ever before. Love.

It's a natural experience from practice that cultivates Yi or mind/awareness. Please don't get distracted w/ the blossoms, while taking care of the tree, you'll have fruit when the time is ripe. Continue to let go of assumptions, even the feelings of gravity, spindriftinto dreams, create, injoy, problem solve, dance and sing. Love. Dave

Pranaman - PM me we are in the PDX area. Fong is a good teacher, if I had the extra $ I would be training i-chuan w/ his group. I have only attended periodically per auspiciousness.

A man of few words. Worth the visit. How does the last three inches of your reach feel?

When you start find wuji, no thought, attention to dantien, do moving form, return to stillness, move from stillness.

I would imagine the ideal situation for the internalist to diffuse as the thread is conceived by the mind but not yet governed by the body. Often movement is already in motion and you must either respond in opposite or in like. Meeting them at the door to turn their way, or welcoming them in/through. Either/or. Each situation is unique. There are no fixed formulas to decide the outcome, a dash of this, a sprinkle of that, wrap in leaves and herbs, roast in the pit, call it a backyard BBQ. Someone might get a tummy ache if they drink to much. Train in a way that expects a freight train coming straight at you. Whatever your art, if it be for bodily defense, it must work when it counts the most. Always expect a train.

Non-Point. Verb, Noun & Adjective Kunlun? Laughing Tigers, Crying Dragons.

In self defense calm precision splits these brutally beautiful hairs

"Why are there so many songs about rainbows... ... and whats on the other side..." Kunlun Kermit

Compliments chi gung (qiqong) as a moving whole body meditation. Postures can be cultivated in stillness, in cyclic movement (single moves) and complete sets (ie 24, 48, 108, etc.) There is body poetry and history just below the surface.

@ Bergan, Flam, Sognafjord and the one w/ black dolphins at sunset...

Identify by sound what was moved or touched. See-feel was reserved to finding teacher in same scenario, and not ending up on the floor laughing.

An observation related to practice: How would one move water through a hose w/o any water pressure?

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opponents resist cooperating partners cooperate resistance I always observe the amount of "effort" expanded on the part of any individual in executing "technique". My personal tastes look for teachers who are light and relaxed in movement, playful in attitude, and have an active/ alive interplay between student and teacher. Any technique regardless of style can be taught and practiced w/ aliveness in mind, the techniques themselves shrink and expand and the space between (transitions) techniques are very quickly realized in this way, where the traditional linear learning (step 1 - 2 - 3) takes longer to unify the technique into fluid three in one step movement.

Swimming those shoulders!

...resistance is futile...

My first yee chuan teacher used to turn off the lights and walk around the room moving objects we had to identify.

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They are Cyclic Couplets

That sums it up nicely.

I love it when someone blurts out exactly what you were thinking."

You have inspired beyond any account...