windwalker wrote:robert wrote:origami_itto wrote: I actually got this correction from Alex Dong a year ago (and Doc in ...what 2015???) but ... you know... shit takes a while to burn in.
Absolutely. I asked Chen Bing to teach me how to sink into the kuas in 2005. That's a tough row to hoe. In 2013 I started working with CXX and his teaching method was to sink. Every alternation, every change, sink. And at that time, I wasn't song enough to do it correctly. It took a few more years to get song kua. I'm still working on it.
Dong Yingjie writes about a similar approach in his taiji manual.The mind must perform alternations nimbly, and then you will have the qualities of roundness and liveliness. The Thirteen Dynamics Song says to pay attention to the alternation of empty and full.
...The alternations of intention are like a flask half full of water: tip it to the left and it floods the left half, or tip it to the right and it floods the right half. If it can be like this, not only will you have obtained the qualities of roundness and liveliness, there will also be pleasure in the movements of your hands and feet. Once in such a delightful state, nobody could stop you from practicing if they tried.
I have friends who studied with Dong Kaiying who said he used this analogy as well.
"Song" does indeed take awhile to develop,,maybe even longer to understand the point of attaining it....
not using force..
Dong Kaiying, used to teach in HI I believe...
along with some of the other family members...
Alex, his father Dong Zeng Chen, and Dong Hu Ling were there, don't know who else.