Re: question about holding the ball/hugging the tree/whatever
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 11:09 pm
Steve James wrote:I dunno. IT seems like "holding the tree" or "tree hugging" was introduced into tcc practice from qigong practices. I don't think the "hold a ball" imagery has much to do with it, but I'm not sure that it is very old at all. The combination or correlation of "tree hugging" with tcc is a relatively new t hing that only occurred when tcc was dissociated from martial arts and considered primarily a health exercise for old people.
I'd rather do qigong for health as that's more useful in the scheme of things.
Ben Lo would make people hold various form postures for a long time. i never heard it was qigong. Maybe that would have helped. When people wondered where he got his sublime ability, he said we were doing exactly what he was taught to do and did. A lot of form and standing.