everything wrote:I/we have some "unconscious competence" with structure/energy body without having any "conscious competence" (kind of against this learning model that says conscious competence comes first). trying to "think about it", things get more difficult to do correctly. Very Taoist mind-is-in-the-way.
origami_itto wrote:Thinking on this more, if you are actually colliding, then your sensitivity is simply not on point and you're moving carelessly.
But you are also cultivating NOT USING that strength. You should be using precisely the right amount of force to accomplish precisely the task at hand.
The root of practical application is Zhan, Nian, Lian, Su. Stick, adhere, join, follow, without letting go and without resistance. That should start on contact to achieve attachment.
So why bother with the conscious at all, the subconscious has access to more information and can make better decisions faster. So this is what they talk about when they talk about action without Yi.
I don't know if there is a separate word or concept for the subconscious mind in Chinese, I don't believe the concept really existed in western thought until Freud and Jung started publishing in the early 1900s
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