windwalker wrote:origami_itto wrote:[
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Who said anything about Buddhism or chinese philosophy? I'm talking specifically about the strategies, tactics, practices, and results associated with Taijiquan.
Full stop. No silk Pjs or cowtows, just practical methods for getting more out of life.
You do understand what the methods are based on.
For example lets take the name "taiji" why call it that,,,
what does it mean, where does it come from
One could look at what noted a master says
Translated by a friend
Taiji by Gao, ZhuangFei(Tai Chi), it is both scientific and philosophical.
These two are combined together, using boxing principles and boxing methods.
So I think it means that if you don’t have the knowledge of Tai Chi and the understanding of the word Tai Chi, you won’t be able to practice Tai Chi very well.
What is Tai Chi? It is Wuji(infinity), Wuji generates Youji(extremes),
Youji generates two characteristics, two characteristics generate four images, and four images generate eight trigrams.
always interesting
Would post a clip of his functional usage , probably wouldn't be received very well...
In Taiwan...
All about functional usage,,, demoed through PH
In working with his group,, practitioners of many years....
Related the practice to the cultural underpinnings from which it's based on, perhaps giving them a
different appreciation of something they grow up in..
wayne hansen wrote:Just to clarify my statement was not about Buddhism
It was about what you put in you get out
The original statement is an inch of meditation an inch of Buddha
I go back toCMC
Three essentials
Right method
Persaverence
Natural talent
Nothing
Magic
everything wrote:Nothing
Before the Big Bang, there was empty space.
There had to be energy to cause exponential expansion.
So it was “Wuji”.
My point is these ideas are the same.Magic
My point is not that there is magic in “X”, but if you cannot do the “trick”, it feels like it the same way a card trick seems like Magic.
Or redefine “X” as “athleticism”. Or some weird thing like “eccentric”.
People who can do X don’t say it’s magic.
But our focus here is on explanations which remain within the realm of physics. There are three broad options to the deeper question of how the cycles began. It could have no physical explanation at all. Or there could be endlessly repeating cycles, each a universe in its own right, with the initial quantum state of each universe explained by some feature of the universe before. Or there could be one single cycle, and one single repeating universe, with the beginning of that cycle explained by some feature of its own end. The latter two approaches avoid the need for any uncaused events – and this gives them a distinctive appeal. Nothing would be left unexplained by physics.
everything wrote:I think that was the popular theory for a long time, but now they think it’s a cycle of bangs
https://www.space.com/what-came-before-big-bang.html
This gets even more confusing. The “one point” is part of the continuum. Possibly there is a “negative” “side”. Maybe there are multiverses. It kind of leaves Physics to go into Metaphysics. At the “end” of Physics, we have philosophy.
NeverMind how confusing talking about tai chi is here LOL.
always existed
The current understanding is that everything existed in a one dimensional point. Everything, including empty space. Like it wasn't just hanging out in empty space and we're just filling it with stuff. The space doesn't exist outside "The universe" and everything existed already
So we know what space is. It's the distance between things and the area they occupy.
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