by Strange on Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:24 am
Trip, what i meant was that it is easier for a person with engineering background to
understand what is going on; why a stroke is done in a particular way; how come it works/does not work, etc.
For me personally, seeing cma from this aspect ties in with what LHBF states that it itself is a
study of extreme logic. this point also ties in to my doubt about whether it is good to bring in one's emotion.
No doubt, as CJW's shared article mentioned: there are examples of humans exhibiting extraordinary strength
in particular urgent/dangerous situation; it is hard to say this can be attributed largely to emotion or
having a clear, single-minded intent of which a pure, unadulterated brain signal was sent to the muscles.
of usage, I feel it is hard to describe in word but i can tell you after my understanding of this point that
my movements are almost never in a simple straight line; always a curve, arc or elliptical in shape.
because in nature, there is no perfectly straight lines.
Also, very small movement can have a very huge difference. maybe just move, bend, arch, drop, raise one inch.
And many cma talk about uprooting, if you can understand the forces, i think you can do it much better.
as a student in the Way, I must say there as in all matters there are yin and yang.
one can understand it as an engineer, but it will not help in understanding real internal qi/energy power,
or about heavenly orbits, etc.
Or how a practitioner can calm and control his mind, not to be controlled by emotions or distractions, etc.
Some western philosophers believe that if you cannot control one's mind; one cannot totally be free.
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