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Brains don't work like a computer. Brains process the information "holographic", while computers even the multiprocessor with the highest clock speed still use the sequential logic. The secret of all internal martial arts is here: emptiness meditation (quiet mind) while body stays in martial postures for letting the brain process the sensory information. rRhHzfPqvUE VQS602KgbEs

very good explanation, totally agree with. Wuxing status can be checked here, just be advised in the equation enters not only astral influences but also genetics: http://www.healingdao.com/ziping_reading.html my predominant element also is Wood and second Water but my deficiency is Fire, Earth and Metal so for me is better a predominant Fire method to burn the excess and generate the deficient elements.

There is nothing wrong if you just watch and listen and let the body heal. Just observe the processes of transformation that occur in your body. It is wrong if you force yourself or your breath. The best breath is to forget thinking at your breath. First you should pass the pain stage. I am still in this stage. The evolution is very slow, what is shown in the video could take several years, maybe the whole life or maybe several lifetimes. Different people may have different experiences and different evolution, some slower, some faster, depending if they cultivated in previous lives, or depending of the deeds accumulated in this life, or their genes or whatever...

according to the video you should meditate minimum as many minutes as your years age. I must accept that this rule is a bit difficult for me at this point but I am a beginner so my meditation sessions are 15-20 min.

standing qigong between trees, in the morning at sunrise or in the evening at sunset when the air is cool. hVAeaHPaLw4 then breathing and closing FsaXvTKHV8w for gas trapped in your colon I recommend the taiji ruler qigong Oc1C7_vfdFA or any other qigong movements in which you stretch your body up and then you bend forward or lateral WkgurUrGzzk and don't force your breathing, just breath naturally as your movement lead you and be careful what you eat, some things if get mixed they cause bloating and gas such as meat and bread.

Taikiken (japanese name) = Yi Quan (chinese name) - same internal principles and same practice as Taijiquan/Baguazhang/Xing Yi Quan Martial applications Tuishou = Pushing Hands Solo drills Ritsu Zen = Zhan Zhuang More Zhan Zhuang

orb I learned to punch and jab but what I can tell you is that after beginning practicing Zhan Zhuang - Standing Qigong for 1 hour per day the power, speed, stamina, explosion... everything increased about double. Of course everything has a limit but I am happy with my limits and especially the fact that my limits right now are much higher than before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mRO1BpPm80 this guy shows different mudras, watch it, it may be interesting for kunluners

I am training Kunlun level 1 for 30 min each evening from the book. I think K1 is the simplest, easiest, fastest Kan and Li practice available and for only 20$ is the cheapest. It's true is not the complete system. For a complete system one needs a Grounding practice which connects to Earth energy, a meditation practice which connects to Heaven energy and a Kan & Li practice which blends the two. I think standing meditation - embracing the tree - and emptiness meditation added to any kan & li practice is all someone needs for spiritual development

I forgot to add to the Taijiquan complete formula: 1/7 Qigong/Neigong 1/7 Emptiness meditation This is very interesting subject and I wanted to share some thoughts from my personal experience. I wanted to learn martial arts maybe because I am a fearful person. I learned a lot of techniques from different styles but when it was to use them I saw that my body was too weak or couldn't react or had a response way to exaggerated. I found that one of the most important thing in MA is self control. I trained myself and ultimately I could control all my body (at a certain level) except one thing, I couldn't control my fear. So I found that ultimately everything comes to fear control or as they say "Flight or fight response". Actually FEAR is a very healthy mechanism, it keeps one ALIVE and INTEGER. It is inside us maybe from the very beginning, from the time we were protozoa unicellular beings. Fear is the mechanism that tells one there is something unknown in one's field of perception. FEAR increases one's AWARENESS. A sleeping person have no fear, and one cannot sleep if is afraid. I am talking here about CONSCIOUSNESS and UNCONSCIOUSNESS. This is maybe way deeper than the reptilian brain. The brain is just a machine - like a computer - and the mind is like the software. There are a lot of recent theories how the brain works. There is a theory in control of automatic systems that uses the NEURAL NETWORKS. These neural networks use a special kind of logic which is called FUZZY LOGIC. What is interesting is that you build a mathematical model, a software program, you train it and it can give the results for what you have trained it. The more you train it the more precise and faster are the results it gives. The same way works the brain, it uses the fuzzy logic inside its neural network and gives you the fastest way possible the most precise response. So, coming back to FEAR, it is the response of the mind that something wrong, unknown and dangerous is happening inside your field pf perception. Which makes one AWARE of the danger. The more AWARENESS of the situation the more one may control it. one MAY but doesn't mean that one CAN. This is the difference between the people who train only their brains by visualization/imagination techniques and people who train MIND and BODY for REAL situations. This is called EXPERIENCE but one don't need too much experience if one know how to shunt the mechanism of fear inside the mind and body. The mechanism of fear has two components: one is the mind - software program - which gives one the solution and send an electrical signal to the body to execute, the other is the mechanical - electrochemical processes - which is the hormonal "Flight or fight" response. The hormonal response is the ADRENALINE release which gives one faster heart beats, insensitivity to pain, faster reactions. All of these are useful in life threatening situations. Benny Urquidez said that in combat sports there is no fear for loosing life but there is allways fear of PAIN. Paradoxically during a fight one don't feel pain at all because of the ADRENALINE release. one feel FEAR when the ADRELANINE is released in the blood stream. If you feel small amounts of FEAR you became aware of the situation and decide that you control it and you stay and FIGHT. If you have too much adrenaline release then you feel too much fear, there is a trigger limit like a switch, your body tells to your mind is too much for him to bare so you should FLY. This is the PANIC button, the best thing to do is to run but there are some people who paralizes themselves in case of panic because their brain doesn't find any solution for the situation. If one don't feel fear at all, this is a pathological disease they are in a constant danger of breaking their bones falling from heights or crossing the street. They are never aware of the danger arround them. After the danger passes the adrenaline goes away everything goes to normal and the body and mind record the situation as a lesson for future similar events. But there is a little problem, along with the adrenaline release one release some amount of CORTISOL. Adrenaline action on short term but CORTISOL stays for longterm. Every time one encounter a fearfull situation one increase the cortisol levels which stack up until reached the limit where one feel STRESSED. The only thing that counteract the cortisol is SEROTONINE. Serotonine works like a damper, softens the chemical reactions, actually it is called the relaxation hormone. Serotonine is secreted in the digestive tract after one eats. There are others ways to counteract cortisol such as DOPAMINE - the pleasure hormone or OXYTOCIN - the orgasmic/love hormone. In these cases the stressed person need a good f_ck. But this is another discution for another topic. In conclusion everything comes to training and balance or what I call fine tunning. Everything depend on how the body works, how much chemical reactions it produces and how the mind control these processes. Ok, this is the theory and now here comes my personal experience with Taijiquan. - If one train in weightlifting one increase the strength (testosteron levels) but also increases the cortisol levels. I think testosteron is Yang Fire of Kidneys and cortisol and adrenaline is Yin Fire of Kidneys. Nitric oxide also is Yang Fire. The problem with weight lifting is that you train not only the body to produce chemicals but you train the mind to react the way you train. This is why the weight training should be specific training as seen in the Shuai Jiao videos. This is external traditonal training and I am pleased to see that more and more is used in MMA. In my opinion the only strength you need to use is your bodyweight. But not in a dynamic way because the dynamics of strength training is not the same as dynamic of a fight. A real fight is only 3 to 30 seconds. All is about reaction and flight or fight response. - The best way to train the strength is maintaining static postures - Standing Qigong. In army these are called STRESS positions. Because at the beginning you feel incofortable, you feel pain, and you acumulate STRESS (cortisol). But in time (several months) of daily training your body slowly react and changes the chemical balance. The body begins to like it (produces dopamine), relaxes (produces serotonine), decrease the stress level (reduces cortisol) and increases the speed reaction and pain tolerance (adrenaline effect). What I observed is that practicing Zhan Zhuang the adrenals squeeze due to abdominal breathing and slowly empty them in the blood stream so that you allways have some adrenaline in the skin or in the neural pathways and terminals (which I call closing the acupuncture points at external injuries) but in the same time you have smaller PANIC response which means that during an fearfull event you never reach the threshold of FLIGHT, you maintain your cold blood - cool mind. The abdominal breathing stimulates the serotonine production in Dantian, which I think corresponds to Earth element in taoist alchemy. Nitric oxid has a very short life of only several seconds inside the tissues, because it is an unstable gas he reacts quickly with the substances arround - which I think is the Fire element. This element is activated by the reverse breathing and the balance of oxygen/CO2 in the blood stream. In my experience the normal breathing (buddhist way) decrease the fire, while the reverse breathing (taoist way) increase it. Does not matter the breathing patern (budhist or taoist way), what matter is the fire should be kept just as required to cook the internal cauldron (the Dantian) not too much, not too little. This is standing qigong which normally strenghten your legs and your upward posture. It gives the rooting or the body awareness. If you need to increase the strength of your arms or your chest the same priciples may apply. Hand standing near a wall, or fist standing with body reclined in lateral are basic exercises from Shaolin. Hai Deng is the most famous monk who could stand on one finger (you can see him on youtube). My teacher can stand on four fingers with the hands in sword fingers mudra for 30 seconds. His chinese teacher can stand in only two fingers, the pointing fingers of each hand. These skills shows how much stress their body can bear and how much training they put into their mind and body. - The best way to train the brain to react is to learn the martial forms (ALL Taijiquan forms are martial) in a slow manner. The slower the better, the slower you move the more AWARENESS for what you do and what you feel you have. The more you train the neural network, the better will respond in critic situations. This is the role of individual forms and linked forms in a taolu. The traditional taolu-s are the best because they are longer to perform and require more concentration from your mind to be AWARE. Traditional 108 form in Yang style or Yi Lu in Chen style can take 30 minutes to perform in a very slow manner. - Then you need to have the same training with a moving alive target - a real person. Here comes the Tuishou exercises. In pushing hands the same principles apply, the slower the movement the more awareness, you feel the forces but you cant use them. So you need also to use strength on the weaknesses of the adversary. This is called Fa Jing. The problem here is that all the masters uses the Fa Jing only on their pupils. But this is not always true or not quite accurate. The real masters are they who had real fights in their youths or adulthood, who were beaten and who tasted the pain and the dust. They who know that fight is about taking by SURPRISE, FAST and LETHAL. Which ultimately leads to "Flight or fight response". In our days either you live in a high criminality rate neighbourhood, or you go to combat competitions. Otherways one cannot test their limits. All the great masters in the past followed the same path. Pain and suffering, trial and error. - Here comes in the scene Qigong training. If you fight or you are training hard, allways there are injuries and accidents. In my experience the Qigong I practised healed my injuries a lot faster than average person. Qigong should be part of all martial arts due to its healing qualities. - Ultimately meditation gives you the control and power over your mind and what lies beyond. I just began to meditate so I have no much experience, and for me it took a long time to be convinced I need to do it. Thanks to this forum and its great Taoist bums. What I know for sure is that meditation increases the field perception, if nothing else it clears the mind, it is like defragmenting the information storage, clears the good healthy info of viruses and trojans in my head computer.

Hundun you are right, there is no real fight in those videos. It's just about Judo/wrestling in general speaking 'grappling' and how to use Taijiquan. The guy who tried BJJ technics didn't succeed because the other guy every time broke his bones alignement/ body structure/composure from the beginning That is why the standing practice is very important, because you know/feel how you should be, while you know/feel how your adversary should not be. This can be done only at the contact when the two oponents touch each other. You can claim that any boxer can knock out a grappler. Yes its true but only if the grappler does not know how to defend. The best tool against a boxer is grappling because at some point the boxer will touch the grappler - you can see that in any box match when the two fighters hug each other. You know there is a saying in Thai Boxing: "Kicks beat fists, elbows beat kicks and knees beat elbows" I must add the Taijiquan saying: "Shoulder/Hip strike beats Elbow/Knee strike (Kao beats Zhou)" In Taijiquan there are the 8 forces: Peng, Lu, Ji, An, Cai, Lieh, Zhou, Kao and each one beats another. The mastery is to use the one who beats the adversary's force. When you change the force this is the flow. When you apply the force this is the strength. And by the way I'm a great fan of MMA

Darin I have great respect for what you have achieved. I am (was) a fanatic of Taijiquan combat skills. I have done Judo in my teens and Karate Kyokushin and I have to tell you there is no match for Taijiquan. I used Taijiquan in Sanshou competition and I won due to my Taijiquan practice. I have not lift a pound of weight and not run a yard, but my secret trainining (which i stolen from my instructor) is that two months before competition I trained at home 1 hour / day in Zhan Zhuang. In my club I have no match except my instructor which is way stronger than me (in China he trained two hours a day in Zhan Zhuang one hour in the morning and one hour in the evening) and a guy who is 50 lbs over my weight (I am 170 lbs 6ft1 which is not an advantage in grappling). The secret of Taijiquan is the rooting(strength) combined with flexibility (flow). That's it. Nothing else. You have the 13 forms (8 forms and 5 directions). 4 pounds deflect one tone. This is Shuai Jiao the chinese version of Judo. There is no way a Taiji master would loose a fight in front of a wrestler This is the best ever Judo master: http://youtube.com/watch?v=CUne9Xg55og This is a fight between a disciple of Chen Man Ching and a famous shuai jiao champion in Hong Kong in the years '60-'70 http://youtube.com/watch?v=gVBnMIjQ-Xc Actually in modern Shuai Jiao they adopted the same 8 hand forms and 5 directions from Taijiquan because of their efficacity Various examples how to use Taijiquan in sport combat (no cooperation in these clips) http://youtube.com/watch?v=2HbTdQKZ52k http://youtube.com/watch?v=H-BN5cKNAX0 The complete formula in Taijiquan training is 1/5 Standing 1/5 8 forms 5 directions and fighting applications 1/5 Taolu - solo study 1/5 Tuishou - pushing hands - dual study 1/5 San shou - free fighting

I totally agree with you. Actually tensegrity movements purposes is to create body awareness and strengthening of the tendons. Read the CCs books and you will find somewhere don Juan's explanations. ANY Chinese martial art have the same purpose. Bodhidharma introduced martial arts to a Chan Buddhist monastery because of that. There are a lot of religions/spiritual schools that created such exercises for the same purpose. Gurdjieff created sacred dances inspired by the sufi and other esoteric practices he encountered in central Asia. Gurdjieff Sacred Dances By performing such movements you destroy bad habbits (wrong crystallization) and create the so called "crystallization of the soul". Any school that combine meditation (mental exercises) with body exercises is a genuine school. I am not saying that tensegrity doesn't work. What am I saying is that for don Juan lineage of Mexican sorcerers tensegrity was the only thing available in their time and place, which they perfected in their own way and which was the only thing available for western people back in the 60s - 70s. Today the spiritual market is different and abundant...and you have a lot of choices to pick. peace P.S. tensegrity means tension and integrity, these principles are in all internal martial arts such as xingyi, bagua, taiji, yiquan

ok back to the topic Instead of doing these lame magical passes I prefer thousand fold doing my kung fu practice http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uIXeXQMErWc (this is not my style but you have a pretty good idea) check this at minute 4:30 and you will see what really means "unbending intent" http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HMxTKAnMZ4A

Not really true. Actually the lineage of sorcerers does not come from Mayans tradition but it's a mixture of teachings. Here is the lineage of CC: Don Juan, Don Julian who was European immigrant, Don Elias, Rosendo, Lujan ... etc http://wanderling.tripod.com/osorio.html http://wanderling.tripod.com/death_defier.html If you read all the CC books, somewhere Don Juan talk about the origins of the tensegrity movements which came from Lujan who was taught by an asian immigrant (maybe chinese) some sort of qigong exercises I personnaly had a friend who learnt these movements at tensegrity seminars and when I saw her performing the movements I adviced her to learn the original forms.... i.e. the chinese versions

Is that good enough as evidence? http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T6UTGkC73GE electromagnetic energy (photons,electrons,protons) travels by radiation and conduction (contact), termic energy travels by conduction and convection (flow) , gravitational energy does not travel but it influence through field and there is a serious debate if there is some kind of radiation (gravitons) but still not solved in scientific community. Qi has all the attributes above, is radiating, it heats, flows and has a gravitational (or anti-gravitational) field. or there is an interaction between Qi and all the other physical phenomena that we can perceive without perceiving the real cause behind the same laws that apply to particles, atoms, molecules, apply to people as well http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BiJdQvTcYMc

If you are in Beijing and lookong for a Bagua Zhang master I recommend you to search for Zhu Bao Zhen: If you are looking for Taiji and/or Qigong I recommend you Chen Xiang the disciple of Feng Zhiqiang http://www.taichiacademy.com.au/magazine/feature55.htm http://www.nnrs.org/feng_visit.htm http://www.56.com/u74/v_MjgxODQwODc.html http://www.56.com/u18/v_MjgxNjExNTE.html http://www.56.com/u16/v_MjgxODQ1NTc.html If I would be you that I would do

Yes I forgot about that... it's the sword finger hands from taichi

I've found these images on some yoga sites, it appears to be the ring finger mudra. I verified myself during meditation it seems that work, but maybe is just a placebo effect I searched all over the internet for asian statues showing Buddha, Guanyin or Shiva or any gods or godesses but all of them show the index or middle finger mudras. The only images I found showing the ring finger mudra are the christian icons:

check your imbalance of Yin/Yang energy with this table: http://sacredlotus.com/diagnosis/yinyang_table.cfm at your age retention is unnatural. retention should be done normally after age 30-35... maybe later in life

"Medicine man, I'm ill" 2000 B.C. "Eat this herb" 1000 A.D. "This herb is pagan, do your prayers!" 1850 A.D. "Your prayers are superstition, better drink this potion" 1940 A.D. "This potion is useless, better take this pill" 1985 A.D. "This pill is useless, better take antibiotics" 2000 A.D. "Antibiotics are artificial, better eat this herb" 2012 A.D. "Herbs are low energy, better eat Light" ...

@mantis For a good erection you need nitric oxide. You metabolize NO from arginine. Actually dr. Lin's formula for erection problems is ArgiNOx which is arginine with some herbs and vitamins. Here is the composition of ArgiNox. http://lin-institute.org/herbs/arginox.htm You can take them from any bodybuilding store or diet supplements store or directly from foods. The problem with arginine is that if you already have herpes virus you can trigger an infection outburst. The only way to neutralize the herpes infection is to take l-lysine thats because lysine blocks the assimilation of arginine at the level of intestinal tract. Here you can find a list of foods with the amount of arginine and lysine they contain: http://www.herpes.com/Nutrition.shtml as you can see the highest lysine/arginine ratio is for milk and processed milk products while the highest arginine/lysine ratio is for nuts and seeds. Also if you practice yang breathing, reverse breathing or any other taoist breathing technique such as iron shirt, actually you increase the nitric oxide in the blood. When Ron Jeremy sais that he can obtain an instant erection in the lockroom by swallowing several gulps of qi you should read "he increases the amount of nitric oxide in the blood and send it by his will through conception vessel into his penis" I assume at 16 yo you are in the puberty so you don't have the maximum testosteron level, you will have it at around age 21. you can figure it out the level of testosteron by the amount of bodyhair. actually the bodyhair is the result of DHT which is burned testosterone. That means testosterone burned in presence of nitric oxide. I believe that Fire/Yang sexual energy is mainly these two neurotransmitters. Be careful also with the inflammation of the large intestine or others tissues, you can inflame seminal ducts, epididym, prostate or even the testicles because nitric oxide is the main agent in the inflammation tissues mechanism. So my advice is to be careful and use small steps and at any wrong sign to take back two steps. Seek the balance in your body. Water/Fire - Yin/Yang you need both. I hope these infos will help you

here is explained why the penile exercises are dangerous and how to grow your penis naturally by the ballooning effect: http://www.actionlove.com/extra/penilex.htm http://actionlove.com/image/fig6-17b.jpg