everything wrote:yi->qi->jin
Graculus wrote:
I’m not sure what the message here is, except that it is not as easy to train effectively as one would like, and time is not always an accurate measure of effectiveness.
everything wrote:Graculus wrote:
I’m not sure what the message here is, except that it is not as easy to train effectively as one would like, and time is not always an accurate measure of effectiveness.
yes realistically everybody (else) is probably doing it wrong, including myself. but only for the sake of (theoretical) discussion, let's assume one can actually "sink qi" and "mobilize qi" to work on "jin" using "yi". of course that may be meaningless, woo-woo, a translation or history question, or "some other made up thing" that forms a red herring for most people, but let's assume it means what it says for a moment, lol, and people have some rough idea that the "what" question is answered. if it were a fairly concrete thing like "boil water", or "lift x amount of weight", we know a certain dose gives us a certain result. time is not the input, but we know with absolute certainty at least for now the earth will spin and travel around the sun, time will pass whether we train or not, and we have a hard limit on it, it's a "non renewable resource". plus we do have other priorities.
everything wrote:probably already discussed to death before, but what would you think is the "minimum effective dose" (smallest dose for desired outcome, e.g., you don't need to get water past 100C to boil it) for "internal development"? let's just call it yi->qi->jin for conciseness. is it really 8 hours per day? 6? 3? 5 minutes? for a decade? 3 decades? 10,000 hours?
origami_itto wrote:Some of us still have jobs and families and more responsibilities and tasks than time.
When I'm old and unimportant and nobody needs me for anything I'll have all the time I need for the training I want to do, in the meantime I have to get the most bang for the buck
origami_itto wrote:What is it you're trying to get? Maybe I can help you find it.
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