taichistudent Posted January 24, 2015 Anyone noticed having a high charisma by cultivating practices? I remember this one guy doing zhan zhuang for many hours a day and wherever he went people just stared at him. He attracted a lot of people. Â A still mind becomes a powerful mind and does the same. Â Anyone has had the same experienes? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
C T Posted January 24, 2015 It maybe magnetism, but it could also be that average people are naturally curious and easily attracted to captivating or new sensations and/or energy fields. They can't describe what it is, or put their finger on it, but they feel something; curiosity aroused, naturally they want to look, a bit like wide-eyed kids at the zoo gleefully taking in strange sights and sounds. I won't say the animals have charisma, would you? Â Maybe one or two animals have been trained to be clever to add to the fanfare, but the attention these trained animals get are just as fleeting as any other animal or reptile there. Basically this means there is really not much difference between the observer and the observed, its actually mutually arising, but because of habitual dualistic conditioning, humans tend to grasp at what their minds tell them is something fascinating, but this too is usually fleeting - attention lasts only as long as the time it takes for the next fascination to show up. Similar dynamic to the zoo scenario. If one understands how things mutually arise, then the curiosity and the fascination, the distractions and the fanfare wanes, to be replaced by a real sense of interbeingness. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
taichistudent Posted January 24, 2015 Well said CT! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
