xian89 wrote:it isn't necessarily meant to be immediately useful. Some of it is just information that might lead to further interest and inquiry.
It's the person who is interviewed that should have an interest to give a useful or meaningful answer. If you don't have that interest, why accept an interview in the first place?
Here Torben talks about "sinking the Qi", how standing Meditation as a part of it, Torben's own frustrations over the years when talking to Sam Tam about how to do it...
Most people should feel the same frustration watching this. But it is just about the kind of answer I suspected. Some fuzzy answer that doesn't explain much at all. I know what people mean and what what different things they actually do when they claim that theu "sink the qi". If you mean that you do other things instead of "sinking the Qi", then saying that you "sink the qi" is not only confusing and misleading, but dishonest and deceptive. And that is how I feel about just everyone who says that he or she does so. It's unnecessary to build fences between teachers and students... and many of these teachers probably laugh good at their students when they watch them trying to climb the imaginary fence that isn't there...
Well, cudos for Torben who at least tried getting a straight answer from his teacher.... I very much do respect his honesty about the fuzziness of this issue and that he doesn't use fanzy words and try to look good.
I have much more to say about the subject, but I'll leave it for now.