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"emptiness" in the video

Postby everything on Tue Apr 26, 2022 4:36 pm



ok suppose we already criticized this video the usual ways from the usual know-it-all povs.
it isn't "internal" enough. give up "internal" and do fast>slow, strong>weak, young>old.
not enough "fascia". this won't work against Tyson, navel gazing hippies, blah blah blah.

Q: what were you hoping to see instead?
Q: esp for the know-it-alls, what kind of questions do you have? it's not possible to actually know everything, so surely people have some.
Q: whether you think you know it all or not, what would you show?
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Re: "emptiness" in the video

Postby origami_itto on Tue Apr 26, 2022 5:34 pm

Better link? That one isn't working
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Re: "emptiness" in the video

Postby everything on Tue Apr 26, 2022 7:00 pm

that's because it's "empty" so may be a bit difficult to follow.
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Re: "emptiness" in the video

Postby Doc Stier on Tue Apr 26, 2022 7:24 pm

everything wrote:that's because it's "empty" so may be a bit difficult to follow.

LOL ;D
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Re: "emptiness" in the video

Postby everything on Tue Apr 26, 2022 7:26 pm

hahahaha IYKYK.
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Re: "emptiness" in the video

Postby everything on Tue Apr 26, 2022 7:28 pm

but seriously, there are a lot of replies from people in a know-it-all tone, yet from some different direction, to the usual clips. but, logically, no one person actually CAN know everything.

since it's too difficult to understand the "emptiness", what would you want explained instead? or if you somehow think you know more than everyone, what do you want to explain?
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Re: "emptiness" in the video

Postby Bao on Tue Apr 26, 2022 8:58 pm

what were you hoping to see instead?


Instead of what? There’s nothing to see. I was just hoping to see something. The thread is posted in videos.
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Re: "emptiness" in the video

Postby everything on Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:13 am

That’s correct
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Re: "emptiness" in the video

Postby GrahamB on Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:31 am

Is this what emptiness looks like? I've always wondered....

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Re: "emptiness" in the video

Postby origami_itto on Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:34 am

JFC, man.

I don't think you can really show emptiness in a video.

Maybe you can talk about it.

One aspect of emptiness is extraneous muscular tension that would impede the store/mobilize/release of jin, we must be empty of that. - Physical - Earth

Another is reducing the "noise floor", extraneous electrical activity in your nervous system, avoiding or mitigating the effects of adrenaline which are no good to anyone. - Mental - Man

Likewise preference to employ a particular technique would impede your ability to apply the CORRECT technique for the context, so we embrace emptiness and wuji in our attitude. - Spiritual - Heaven

I don't know how it is possible to demonstrate... perhaps with some lab equipment you could show the conscious control of the heart rate, for example, but emptiness itself... dunno
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Re: "emptiness" in the video

Postby everything on Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:37 am

Lol, the video is empty to all but Secret Rare Style members.

I’m just wondering what people ACTUALLY want to see (doesn’t have to be empty).

Since most responses are along the lines of:
- my Super Rare Style is better and this sucks
- this would only work in the Super Rare Style Bubble with Compliant Cult
I mean Club member
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Re: "emptiness" in the video

Postby origami_itto on Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:39 am

Oh all I really want to see is civility and curiosity.
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Re: "emptiness" in the video

Postby everything on Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:44 am

Yes this is a sort of roundabout test for those attributes
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Re: "emptiness" in the video

Postby everything on Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:52 am

origami_itto wrote:JFC, man.

I don't think you can really show emptiness in a video.

Maybe you can talk about it.

One aspect of emptiness is extraneous muscular tension that would impede the store/mobilize/release of jin, we must be empty of that. - Physical - Earth

Another is reducing the "noise floor", extraneous electrical activity in your nervous system, avoiding or mitigating the effects of adrenaline which are no good to anyone. - Mental - Man

Likewise preference to employ a particular technique would impede your ability to apply the CORRECT technique for the context, so we embrace emptiness and wuji in our attitude. - Spiritual - Heaven

I don't know how it is possible to demonstrate... perhaps with some lab equipment you could show the conscious control of the heart rate, for example, but emptiness itself... dunno


Great thoughts. Didn’t think of those.

I don’t know how people would show those either.

Think videos of Fedor bouts might come close. His Super Rare Style is quite calm. He clearly had technique preference, though, but it mostly worked.

But that wouldn’t be our Super Rare Style of interest.
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Re: "emptiness" in the video

Postby windwalker on Wed Apr 27, 2022 10:09 am

@everthing.

:)


interesting post...

Some of the maybe mis-unable "what ever" understandings

May come down to culturally interpretations of the same event or activity


for example

Western artists rely on shapes, colors, lights, and shadows to convey a scene.

Chinese painting uses the power of suggestion to capture the essence of objects,
while traditional Western painting relies on the meticulous depiction of the object's forms.

Chinese symbols evolved from artistic depictions of subjects.


The differences between approaches quite striking, intriguing.

understanding, knowing, appreciating, one has to either be trained, or perhaps have an
innate understanding that may come from, being surrounded, born into the culture it originated in

Thinking some might know this story

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