Zhan Zhuang Practice Videos

[Aetherous]

"Anywhere in there is there mention about returning Ming by TCM?"

 

It's what you suggested before.

 

Hopefully it is clear for you now.

 

Thanks.

 

Of course the Su Wen doesn't discuss TCM...TCM was invented in the 20th century.

 

Su Wen chapter 1 does speak of life extension, which is what I was saying...feel free to go take a look. Furthermore, TCM deals with yuan qi...go read a basic book on it to see those words used. It deals with prenatal and postnatal. There are also schools of thought in Chinese Medicine which dealt with the prenatal, such as the fire spirit school, whose practitioners lived over 100 years.

 

Not interested in further discussion with you. If you are going to choose to continue saying wrong things about subjects you're not educated in, it won't reflect positively on your lineage here at the forum...it's just more negative behavior.

[SeekerOfHealing]

Exactly. Not knowing basics of TCM and practicing neidan can be disastrous. Even chan practitioners learns TCM to learn basics how to deal with issues in meditation. 

[Arkady Shadursky]

I have learned zhanzhuang from a wide variety of teachers, and have had in depth discussions with many teachers and long-term practitioners. It is as Opendao says: there are "many variations to get different effects."

 

What one gets out of zhanzhuang is in large part a question of very subtle adjustments to posture (we're talking stuff that you need to have physically done to you, because just hearing it or reading it or seeing another person in a photo or video do it is not enough--your mind thinks it understands but your body doesn't know how to "obey," and thus you need your body to be put into that position time and again until your body remembers). The other important factor is the "mental instructions" or 心法, ie, the instructions you receive about what to do with your mind while you stand there.

 

Both of the above factors are very different from teacher to teacher and practice to practice. They are just about impossible to convey in writing or even in video. Because of this, what you get out of zhangzhuang from study with one master can extraordinarily different from what you get out of practice with another.

 

Due to these complexities, even though one might practice for hundreds or thousands of hours, it's still next to impossible to be in a place where one can make accurate and informed statements about the forms of zhanzhuang that one has not personally experienced.

Walker, thank you very much for saying this.

 

This experience is really priceless and it only could be expressed by the one who made the way through and found out what the real zhanzhuang is!

I can assent to every highlighted word.

Thank you.

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Best Regards,

Arkady