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It was always explained to me by my first teacher as being a perception range between pain, discomfort, comfort & pleasure. (and our misconceptions thereof) Also to note is the local sensations of "burning" can dissolve, relocated, spread out, shrink, etc. This is all normal. The first step is feeling what this "burning" is that TM is talking about though. A quick way is grab any object and hold it upwards at a 45 deg angle. Drop into wuji. The first goal is 2 min. When you encounter an obsticle to your goal, search withing to find a way around. The best is to use a small barbell weight and poke your mind through the hole up to a tack on the wall. Hang the weight from the tack. When it burns, reach out and hang it up again. You're not holding it up, your suspending it on your boing. We should have a taobums wuji workshop. Would Sifu J-T host TM? Arn't he in CA? Spectrum

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That's the "tough guy" wall sit, sure to make you sweat and burn and wonder what it's for. Reason I say that is it's not training your "stance" specifically, just things related to it. Try this. Stand w/ your back against the wall. Heels touching the wall. Gradually slide into wuji. (slide your butt down the wall. Focus on keeping the spine aligned all the way up the wall. (try to remove the natural curves as you drop into wuji: feel the curves elongate down/up the wall.) Weight drops directly down your shoulders/spine/pelvis/heels&k1. Remember to open your kua. There are three primary postural "bows" that are strung when you drop into wuji. As soon as you get there (wuji) you'll feel a resting point in which going deeper shifts COG forward. (or backwards) Adjust up and down until you feel like your WITH the wall, not learning away, or leaning against it, just with it as a guide. If you want to check your alignment use a pendulum from the tip of your shoulder in wuji, you'll find it drops to the center of the heel. The weight is distributed evenly through the bridge of the foot. If it aligns forward or rear of the heel adjust accordingly. Spectrum

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Renzo shows Prayer Position in his book "Mastering Jiu Jitsu" as a defensive and entry posture. Good observations you guys are making. The only good position in one that can form answers to questions from every direction. Every stance has wuji hidden within. Spectrum

Yeah Sean PM me your address. Well David thought different - "This is actually doing me a lot of good" - I'll send you one of these to hold in your hand in tigers mouth while you practice and you'll feel it. If you hold this thing and do any tai chi moves it kinda warbles in your hand and pushes or pulls in a clearly curved direction that changes when you follow it, funny thing is when you do it inside the taichi form, you see why TCC is considered "classical" (ref: golden harmonics of human motion) I think Robs latest analogy phrase was "pull rope, push wire". Like I said, I just have a pile of these things and am feeling like it's time to share. The sticks "suggest" movements if you listen to them. Don't get me wrong, they are simply a piece of pvc, but the curve is what it really is.... much like any "weapon" which has a unique center of gravity and way in which it is wielded, these toys lighten things up a bit by suggesting spirals and directions in which might not have previously been felt or explored. A pure geometry toy to feel around with in the dark. Spectrum

Since we're on the topic of playing w/ bananas in the yard: You can combine anything w/ your banana. Don't poke your eye out. LOL Spectrum

It's a toy to play with. It'll also double as a green lawn banana and you can mix drinks w/ it! But really the uses are endlesssss, 0.618 ... a little more than halfway there ... and a perfect addition to any Taobums arsenal of tools and techniques to elevate consciousness. ...Davids consciousness does appear elevated... Anyways... Cam... I have piles of these things laying around. I'll send you one to experiment / futz with if you want. And yes it would stick right into your Kunlun cuz your body is the medium of all the movement of consciousness. Not to take away any of your attention from your chosen system, but honestly I think Max would completely jive with these. What else does Max do all day other then tune into the universe and gung out and play and do seminars? Rubics Cube? Spectrum

PS - You can mix this practice with... a n y t h i n g . lol

Contemplating still riddles Mapping inner drawings Scrambling comparisons presumptions

btt for the name game. agharta?

For tired seekers thread reference: Retroejaculation

This is what wuji does in taiji, a central point of reference in which you expand and contract to and fro. But first... everyone must find Wuji.... it's usually what.. . 3 inches away from standing up straight? I second the wall sit for warmup. Alternate w/ kneebends down to your wuji height. Hip circles are a good one as well. Clockwise, Counterclockwise, S-pattern to change directions. Of coarse Sun Salutations for loosening the Big Hinge. On the width of stance, there is a variety of stances available using your own body as measuring stick. It goes something like this. Start w/ your feet together and systematically pivot your feet from the heels and toes 45 degrees into a parallel stance. Once the first wuji is found (shoulder width) pivot only one foot by 45 degrees to find successive stances. The depth of the stance can (should but not set in stone injury/age) change w/ the width. Parrallel feet, w/ knees not passing over toes. Whole foot contacts ground. Feet suction cup on inhale, relax and align w/ exhale. Focus on settling down. Breath w/ the fine tuning. Spectrum

Cheap thrills for keeping the thread half on topic. Just a drop in the bucket. Those single moments of conscious self interest who's wake loops around to bite back. Kinda like a treasure map isn't it? The old mans beard hangs down. we are ... the process of life harmonizing w/ death? Spectrum

Reality Check. Spectrum PS - Lin are you there?

...like practical ego being a systematic illusion....

I think the context in which Castenedas postures are used in the book are very believable. What I saw as the postures themselves? <shrug> Not that big of a deal. Spectrum

Ego and "systems" are pretty big illusions. Nice catch Vortex. Spectrum

BTT for response to my question on the basic prerequisites for practice.

Lin, Interesting information on Long Hu Shan. Have you visited there? When will Shifu Chang be returning to Hawaii? I have a strong inkling to visit her school in Honolulu. Thank you and Kindest Regards, Spectrum

All these replies are thought out and mindful. Thank you. I appreciate the reflection on the discernment of movement and particully the intent. Assuming some Wudang lives on, what does its movements charactaristically represent? What is this that Lung Hu Shan Mt. Taoists escaped the Communist spiritual enema? http://www.soc.hawaii.edu/hwhp/china/biography.html Excerpt: "Dr. Lily Siou Ph.D., Taoist Master Chang I Hsiang known to her students as Shih Fu Chang was trained from the age of six at the Lung Hu Shan Monasteries in China. She was sent to the monasteries during the troubled times of the early 1950s in China. Lily's parents felt she would be safer there. She did not see her mother again for 20 years."

wasn't the first radios run w/ crystals?

Good stuff Vortex. Thank you. I have never seen this outside of reading the account in the original thesis.

I believe the moons gravitational field has an effect on the water on this planet. Why? Fact. Everything else I use discernment, based on my personal experience. Sometimes I run across systems or believes or ancient technology which supports my endeavors at inquiry into the unknown. Spiritually I suppose some people might treat it like forecasting the weather. Spectrum