exorcist_1699 Posted December 5, 2015 (edited) In the world of qi , you should follow the principle of ' Less is more, none is most ' . The less your mind intervenes, the more and higher-quality qi you get ; the closer you approach the no-mind state , the bigger your internal qi expands to merge with the immense qi outside , and you get the most from it . Taoist alchemy is in fact simple, only people's mind complicate it . Edited December 5, 2015 by exorcist_1699 10 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shanlung Posted December 10, 2015 Just like the Tao. Eat when hungry and drink when thirsty and that will always be there. Qi and chi is like the Tao. Thinking of qi or chi is nothing but thinking of qi and not of the real chi. I needed to be thrown about on my ears and bum to learn humility and beat out of me my imaginations of chi running here and there before I finally latched on if I stop kidding myself, and when it is so needed, the chi I been yearning of will be there. Maybe you need the same too, and if you are lucky enough to meet Masters and not the dime a dozen masters all eager to tell you the chi here and chi there and chi everywhere. Idiotic Taoist in peng li ji ann http://thedaobums.com/topic/24575-taijiquan-styles/page-4 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rara Posted December 17, 2015 I had to stop thinking and reading...including time away from this forum. Now I just sit on my chair and laugh Thoughts are there, but they are nothing to do with me. They can carry on though, that's what they do. Meanwhile, I'll continue to "be". Chi is naturally here, and if I am "just being", I'm not getting in its way 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
exorcist_1699 Posted December 22, 2015 (edited) Our daily ,always fluctuating mind, no matter it is doing a lengthly mathematical calculation or randomly thinking of unrelated stuff, to the immense world of qi , is some kind of ' noise ' that the less it happens , the deeper we can march into that mysterious world ... A state of extreme quietness is the proof of how well we do the job , arising even when we are situated in a noisy environment. As Lao tzu said : " 致虛極 , 守靜篤 , 萬物並作 , 吾以觀其復 " . " Push nothingness to its utmost , hold quietness to its extreme , then everything turns its real face to you" Edited December 22, 2015 by exorcist_1699 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rara Posted December 22, 2015 The chi that can be spoken is not the eternal chi XD Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
centertime Posted December 23, 2015 In the world of qi , you should follow the principle of ' Less is more, none is most ' . The less your mind intervenes, the more and higher-quality qi you get ; the closer you approach the no-mind state , the bigger your internal qi expands to merge with the immense qi outside , and you get the most from it . Taoist alchemy is in fact simple, only people's mind complicate it . What does it mean to "intervene"? Can you give me examples? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
exorcist_1699 Posted December 24, 2015 What does it mean to "intervene"? Can you give me examples? For examples, you deliberately circulate qi in a pattern you think it should be , or you visualize something so as to enhance your feeling of qi..etc; 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites