ChiDragon

BTW May I have the honor to see your demo? It's optional of course. Please do get me wrong. I am not asking for proof. I beleive you based on your words.

Thank Tao, we are almost become a Taoist. You are a quarter-Taoist and I am a semi-Taoist. At least, we can make some sense out of each other and communicate. It was nice that we can picked it up where we left off from OD. Otherwise, we would be boring to death. Anyway, Taoist talk makes thing to go in accordance with the way of Tao. It gives us a peace of mind. Isn't that wonderful!

Ofc not, your trolley has wheels.

There was another saying, 不到黃河心不息. I'll let Cobie handle this one. Please translate! @Cobie

I do not use a heavy bag, rather I used a lightweight bag stand up right on the floor. When push I feel the light weight of the bag to get the yang effect. On the pull, moving my hand away from the bag, I go song(松) on my hand and let the bag follow me to get the yin effect. When doing the push-pull motion, it meets the yin-yang concept which what Taiji goes by.

Welcome! Please come to discuss about the mysterious Tao.

I wouldn't think this the way to end a valuable discussion. The ancient masters are always have humble talks about their knowledge before they going into the troublesome moves to prove their point.

Many people who have practiced for 40-50 years but still can't do it. It was because they did not incorporate the breathing into consideration. Okay, by the line of your questioning, you may assume that I know nothing about push-hand. However, I know enough to know how much you knew with all the basics. It takes one to know one. The words in bold are only the requirements help to know when to Fajin with a partner. However, if the body was conditioned from practice and done properly/correctly, one can be standing alone still able to Fajin without a partner. No?

Yes, I am possessed with Taiji. In order to master the art, one must dedicate all the time and effort into it. I am also a volunteer teaching Taiji at a Chinese community service center. I teach two hours there on every Tuesday. One hour for the practice of the 24 form and one hour of Taiji sword. Taiji can do wonders to improve one's health. Showing my ability was to encourage them to practice with enthusiasm. Sometimes, I do demonstrate Fajin introducing what Taiji can do to improve someone's health. There are not many people I can practice with in my area. Sometimes, I go to visit some Taiji Tournaments to talk and on hand practice push-hand with some participants to enhance my knowledge. As far as solo as concern, I had come up with the idea using a punching bag to do push-hand. I am getting the impression that people are insisted to have a teacher to learn from. That is very true. However, a teacher can only help one to get started. As a beginner, after learning the forms, it is strictly to practice on once own diligently. At the beginning level, the student should not expect to learn more but the basics. In time, student shall notice that there are some physically changes in the body. That would be an indication of health improvement. There are some biological change inside the body that people are not aware of and they don't care. Learning the art cannot strictly rely on the teacher alone. One had to do some investigation on one's own. To enhance one's wisdom. After mastering to art, a master may give advice rather than asking for advice. Unless, one can learn from another person with more knowledge. There was an old saying "know yourself know others." In other words, one with the desirable knowledge by listening to the words that someone uses will know how much the other knows. Same thing with any practice, a master will know the ability of one or another by observation. Now, back to the Fajin question: If you need to always exhale while doing fajin, what will you do if someone attacks you right after you have fully exhaled? Will you ask them to wait to let you inhale first, so you can fajin? Normally, a person do not Fajin unless it was in danger. A quick reflex is to Fajin by a muscle action with deep inhalation, sinking chi to the LDT. At that moment, that person is at the strongest body condition. The coordination of movement and breathing takes place. There won't be a shortage of breath. Beside, if one had mastered in breathing, one may regulate one's breath in any way. To test one ability in breathing is by how long a person can hold the breath before suffocation. As a matter of fact, yesterday, I had demonstrated by holding my breath for 45 seconds before suffocation in my class. The reason I had the sabre demo was to show the ability in breathing. Otherwise, the demo wouldn't have lasted for 6 minutes. However, it seems I didn't sense the old saying, here, "know yourself know others".

I always wanted to try it on my wife, but she won't let me. She was afraid that I might hurt her. 💔

@Cobie Since you know how to Fajin, please tell us when is the best time to do that!

This was never got out of my mind. If one who knew bout Fajin, one wouldn't have had asked such question. I'll give you a chance to think about it. I will get to the point when I have a chance to go to my computer.

靈氣 is the term that Japanese used for the medical qigong which is equivalent the Chinese term 醫療氣功(medical qigong). I don't know where people getting the idea that it has problems. BTW Thank you for the kind words!

The characters are the same 靈氣, but it has a different meaning completely between the Chinese and Japanese culture.

Yes, breath, breathe, breathing, sink breath to the dantian. Try it, it might work for everyone. I don’t know why people are getting all kinds of definitions of neidan but the right one.

Oh, a new invention of Neidan. It's wonderfully, so, you are saying that the post-neidan is the reversal of the pre-neidan.

Had anyone ever heard of Jing, chi, and shen? It is all about neidan，内丹.

Sorry, the video is all in Chinese, let me clarify what is the objective of the video. Perhaps you might want to reconsider on original thought. It is not a push-hand competition, rather it is a push-push situation. The idea is to test the strength of a Taiji master. The test was done in three rounds. Each round is one minute. After three rounds, if Chen still inside the Taiji circle wins. In the competition, both opponents are pushing each other. It was all yang-yang forces without any yin-yang effect. If it was push-hand, Chen would have guided the incoming force to the right hand side. In the same token, Chen could have had pulled forward to step out of the circle by his opponent. Hence, there was no huajin was involved.

Here is my PPJ.

Where does all Chen's power coming from? The power was coming from Fajin. The power of Jin that was acquired from the practice of Taiji. However, one must be aware that Jin was not developed by the practice Taiji. Taiji will only condition the body to have the ability to generate the energy to Fajin. To initiate Fajin is by the contraction of the muscles. As soon the muscles are relaxed, Fajin is deactivated immediately. In order to maintain continuous Fajin, Chi, 氣, must sink to the lower dantian at all time by the abdominal breathing method. How does Fajin to generate it power, I think I had said enough in the few posts above. Some people thought that was all speculations. So, let it be, science will reveal its truth. Peace!

Assuming that everyone knew what rooting is all about, let's evaluate what do you mean by "not sending, that rooting" Hopefully it is not an insult to Master Chen Xiaowang. The surface of Taiji circle is smooth and slippery. Just just fighting by the weight of his opponent, alone, without a good foundation of rooting, Master Chen wouldn't even have a chance to stay inside the circle. If you have noticed that Chen's right leg was never moved, that is the indication of good foundation of rooting which gives him leverage and balance to stay put. He applied Fajin throughout the whole body. He is not just fighting against the weight of the opponent, but also the pushing force. It is obvious that Chen weights lighter than his opponent. Hence, Chen has to use more power to overcome the difference in weight and the pushing force. So, we can look at it mathematically: Jin = the force Chen has to generate W1 = the weight of the opponent W2 = the weight of Chen F1 = the pushing force of the opponent. Jin = (W1 - W2) + F1 is how much power that Chen has to be generated to overcome the force against him to stay inside the circle.

性命雙修 , the dual cultivation of Xing and Ming is a Taoist practice. The esoteric terms of Xing and Ming stands for mind and body, respectively. Xing is the cultivation of the mind and Ming is the cultivation of the body. It is a Taoist practice to become a better person or a perfect man(真人) by doing the dual cultivation at the same time. PS Now, I got this out of the way. I hope we'll be back on to the main course of the OP. Thank you.

FYI Cheng Man Ching, 鄭曼青, was a herbalist. I'd read his autobiography. He have a special encounter with the Yang family. As I recall, He cured an ill for the mother of a Yang Taiji master. The Taiji master was also a herbalist, he was afraid to give the herbal medicine to his mother. It is because that is his mother and he just become uncertain that he might prescribed the wrong medicine. However, CMC over heard that and knew the herbal medicine is ok to use for his mother. So, CMC gave the same recipe to cure the master's mother. At first, the Yang Taiji master did not want to teach CMC Taiji because it is a traditional family secret. Since CMC cured his mother, then the Yang Master taught the Yang style family Taiji to him.

In the Chen Xiaowang video, the demo was to have Chen stays within the Taiji circle while the weightlifter is pushing him. The weightlifter is pushing Chen by Fali(發力). However, if Chen has not practiced Taiji, he would be just using Fali(發力) to defend himself. Thus he would have had been pushed out the circle in no time. Chen is a master of the Chen style Taiji. He had used his Fajin(發勁) ability. Indeed, he stayed in the circle during the whole time of the competition. He almost went out of the circle though. There is a difference in blood circulation. The weightlifter is required to hold up the weight, for some time, by muscle contraction. It will cause vascular constriction until the weight was dropped. However, a Taiji practitioner always have the muscles relaxed. Vascular constriction takes place only during Fajin. During Taiji practice, the contraction and relaxation of the muscles will have a much better the blood circulation. It is because during muscle relaxation, the blood goes into the artery from the heart. During the muscle contraction, the vascular constriction of the vein helps to squeeze the blood return to the heart. Those are the difference between the two systems.

Introduction to muscle conditions with mitochondrial dysfunction. The growth of interest in mitochondrial research over the last decade is related to the knowledge that mitochondrial content and function exhibit plasticity in response to changes in metabolic energy demand. Exercise is a stimulus that is well known to induce increases in mitochondrial content within skeletal muscle. However, decrements in mitochondrial content and function can also take place, forcing muscle to derive a greater fraction of its energy from glycolysis during the stress of energy demands. Such decreases in mitochondria are readily apparent in muscle fibers subject to chronic disuse, providing evidence that muscle activity is critical to maintenance of a normal, healthy mitochondrial pool. The above explanation shows the effect of exercise between Taiji and weightlifting on the mitochondrial density. Ref: https://journals.lww.com/acsm-essr/Fulltext/2021/04000/Exercise_Is_Muscle_Mitochondrial_Medicine.1.asp