Re: Thoughts on Qi
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2019 9:06 pm
It's not very hard to learn a soft art.
People do it all the time at judo, BJJ, etc.
It is difficult to learn internal martial art, though. And these arts might not be soft.
Mostly it seems like it's because people don't do internal or get lost in words that have no meaning or get lost in MA before they know anything.
So basically people are in their own way.
This is one reason why it seems more interesting to keep MA and qigong separate.
Just don't worry about the two as an integrated thing.
Back to the original topic,
It doesn't seem like we really sink or store or get full.
Yet that is what it certainly FEELS like.
If someone (hypothetical student) wants to know what to do, it doesn't seem hard to use these descriptions that others have used. Their value is not based in some double blind science experiment defining something measurable with instruments - it is ART. No one will be as good as Lennon and McCartney by doing some better analysis.
Why is that hard to understand?
It's probably because letting go of tension in the form of useless thoughts is what is most difficult for people.
Just listening to the body and finding a feeling that isn't commonly talked about outside the arts is difficult for people.
People do it all the time at judo, BJJ, etc.
It is difficult to learn internal martial art, though. And these arts might not be soft.
Mostly it seems like it's because people don't do internal or get lost in words that have no meaning or get lost in MA before they know anything.
So basically people are in their own way.
This is one reason why it seems more interesting to keep MA and qigong separate.
Just don't worry about the two as an integrated thing.
Back to the original topic,
It doesn't seem like we really sink or store or get full.
Yet that is what it certainly FEELS like.
If someone (hypothetical student) wants to know what to do, it doesn't seem hard to use these descriptions that others have used. Their value is not based in some double blind science experiment defining something measurable with instruments - it is ART. No one will be as good as Lennon and McCartney by doing some better analysis.
Why is that hard to understand?
It's probably because letting go of tension in the form of useless thoughts is what is most difficult for people.
Just listening to the body and finding a feeling that isn't commonly talked about outside the arts is difficult for people.