tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020010160030365744.post5394259067684221591..comments2024-01-14T00:30:28.922-08:00Comments on Taoist Meditation: The mythical yin and yang in tai-chi nei gungPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15867403006412320812noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020010160030365744.post-39059641699689028502012-10-27T01:08:30.420-07:002012-10-27T01:08:30.420-07:00Thanks for your continual enriching the "beef...Thanks for your continual enriching the "beef" here (assuming that there is indeed some in the first place..:):)). Once it is out, it is part of the public domain (for good). I always joke to my friends about this blog: it will be here forever, like the sun and the moon, not until Google decides to close this Blogger thing down (or it being out of business, which is quite unlikely). Look forward to reading more of your valuable comments in future.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15867403006412320812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020010160030365744.post-17198227161617174302012-10-27T00:47:51.545-07:002012-10-27T00:47:51.545-07:00Thanks Paul. I think that these demos only show th...Thanks Paul. I think that these demos only show the body conditioning achieved after this particular nei kung practice, necessary for free fights. I am sure and I am already feeling it has much more deeper influence concenring the health of the body and mind.<br />In all the cases your writings are a good interdisciplinary brige as well as East-West.<br />Thanks again and keep it on. Iv Chohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00511255331650537532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020010160030365744.post-88970331663191292442012-10-26T21:23:20.363-07:002012-10-26T21:23:20.363-07:00Thanks for your sharing. I'm sure different pe...Thanks for your sharing. I'm sure different people or lineages do tai-chi or tai-chi nei gung with different objectives. Wang learned from CTH, and he had a different approach, and training people to take punches or do jumping onto abdomen demos didn't seem to be his reason for writing the book (Boxing and Muay Thai I believe will have their own methods in this area, which of course I'm not interested in either). Hope you would share the research you mentioned some day....looking forward to it. Thanks again!<br /><br />PS: I pleaded guilty to be one "arm-chair" teacher as per your definition....:):)Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15867403006412320812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020010160030365744.post-15485729458139339922012-10-26T06:03:26.159-07:002012-10-26T06:03:26.159-07:00Actually in CTH lineage I met nobody (up to now) d...Actually in CTH lineage I met nobody (up to now) doing a channel meditation, for the internal strength the guys just do the nei kung and even an average/ordinary guy (not great figther) after 100 days proper Yin can withstand easily kicks and jumps onto his abdomen from 2 meters high. I try to do a reasearch explaining this.<br />Some examples:<br />http://youtu.be/1W7zqk7oduI<br />http://youtu.be/FB0BqHV5kx8<br />My belief is that CTH produced such a good pure tai chi fighters winning tournements in Lei Tai because the stress was put onto the practical side of the art, the mythical side was given to the "'arm chair'' tai chi masters/instructors. <br />Concenring the mantra it is a short one (and the same for everybody) paying tribute to the one who is considered to be the founder of the art. And it goes very well with the last part of the Old Man (no chaneling and chakras). I do not see any miths inside.Iv Chohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00511255331650537532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020010160030365744.post-91033081284452489792012-10-26T00:39:20.141-07:002012-10-26T00:39:20.141-07:00Mantra is an interesting thing. TM guys love it, ...Mantra is an interesting thing. TM guys love it, and TM instructors will tailor-made individual mantra for each student and bid him keep it secret and personal (therefore mythical). I don't work with mantra in my practice, and Wang didn't seem to, there was none in his book. My believe is that if a meditator can focus his mind through point or channel meditation, there is really no reason to complicate it with a mantra. But for some, a mantra might be helpful, though doing it mythical or not, is of one's own personal preference...:):)<br /><br />Thanks for sharing, as always.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15867403006412320812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020010160030365744.post-16742186867070950452012-10-25T11:50:50.524-07:002012-10-25T11:50:50.524-07:00Good.
Interesting, does the book describing the &q...Good.<br />Interesting, does the book describing the "24 styles tai-chi nei gung" mention (for the 3rd part of Old Man Burning Cinnabar) the mantra which has to be chanted as in the CTH transmition? Iv Chohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00511255331650537532noreply@blogger.com