Qigong & The Reptile Brain

"The region of the reptile brain (brainstem) is one of the most important areas for Qigong and Dim-mak. In Qigong it is used to help us to go into the reptile brain where we are in survival or reflex mode allowing the body heal itself or to help us to heal others. There is a good rule as to whether or not you are doing your Qigong correctly and it has to do with the Reptile Brain. When we are taught the basic standing Qigong, we usually begin by getting used to all of the new physical things that we are faced with and are feeling. Like the shakes that accompany the stances. Once over this area and we are faced with a mild vibration which is quite pleasant, we feel the Qi ‘lifting up’ the back and being activated at the points known as GB 20 (gallbladder points No. 20) just below the base of the skull. We feel something lifting up and ending at these points, like a sensation. Everyone’s sensation is different so it is difficult for me to tell you what to feel, better for you to feel it yourself. But be warned, you MUST do Qigong correctly and that means that every tiny peripheral is in its correct place, the weight is placed exactly in the correct place, the head is held exactly correctly, the breathing is being performed exactly and so on. I recently heard from a chap who had been doing so-called Qigong with some ‘master’. He complained that he felt ill after every session and his mind was scattered afterwards. So I sent him my Basic Qigong tape so that he could see exactly what he was doing wrong. He discovered that just about everything he was doing was wrong and thus having a detrimental effect rather than a healing effect! The worst thing that most people do when learning Qigong is to place the weight over the balls of their feet right onto Kidney One point. This is the most damaging thing that one can do as it causes ‘adverse cyclic Qi’ to be generated which can damage the reptile brain! Not many ‘masters’ realize that KD 1 point is NOT the activation point for KD 1 but rather that it is the area of the heels that activates KD 1 point on the foot, the energy input point for ground Qi. So when we place weight onto KD 1 point, it actually stops the Qi from entering into the body. However, if the ground Qi did not enter the body we would die so it must come is some how. So, it builds up to such a degree that it comes through in violent bursts, which reach right up, into the reptile brain damaging it! This is the reason that many people experience violent shakes and body movement while standing in a basic Qigong stance. Many ‘masters’ say that this is powerful, but they are wrong. The weight must be placed upon the heels thus leaving KD 1 point free of all tension and allowing a moderate and balanced flow of Qi to enter the body gradually, thus enhancing the reptile brain.

We are always told to ‘sink the Qi’. But why? The reason is that only in this way does the Qi turn into ‘jing’, a more purified and evaporated type of Qi which is then able to flow to all parts of the body, condenses and settles into the marrow as fat enabling our body to produce more ‘T’ cells for our immune system. In ‘sinking’ we allow the ‘activation points’ for the Reptile Brain to work, activating the Reptile Brain. The very instant that you begin to discover ‘sinking’ or as the Chinese call it, ‘Sung’, you will feel the reptile brain come into play. For a short time, you feel invincible but do not worry that will go away, leaving you with a feeling of well-being because in this condition, your body is free to do what it has to without external tension and the Reptile Brain is free to help you to survive. Survival does not only mean survival against physical attack, but also against disease and pathogenic attack. Tension is one of the greatest things that affects the well being of the Reptile Brain so Qigong is able to help the Reptile Brain do its subconscious work unhindered by tension. All of your glands will be able to do their allotted work. Your Thymus gland, which is in charge of balancing the Qi, will not shrivel up as it does in most people at age around 15. The Thymus gland is more susceptible to stress than any other gland. When we are younger and have not much adult stresses placed upon us, this gland is large and healthy, a tuber shape reaching down from CV 22. So when we begin to get rid of stress, this gland comes back again to control our flow of Qi again. By becoming aware of the Reptile Brain we also activate and assist the Pineal gland, which is also responsible for our perception of nature and the things around us and our place on the planet. So it is not unusual for this gland to increase in size. There are some animals whose size of this gland is half the size of their total brain at birth enabling them to be totally aware of their environment from day one and be in total survival mode.

So while many people do Qigong simply to become more relaxed, they do not know that this ‘simple’ exercise is one of the most beneficial that anyone can do to enhance the Reptile Brain, hence enhancing the workings of the whole body. See (Photo No. 1) for the basic 3 circle standing Qigong stance."

~Erle Montaigue

Stimulation Of The Pineal Gland Through Internal Martial Arts

"It is this humble dabbler in medical science that we are able to get back the original function of the Pineal gland, like communication at a much higher level than just speech and communicating with the earth such as dolphins, whales and seal are able to do. We can do this by practicing Qigong and the internal martial arts. Back when science didn’t help at all, the ancient Chinese would simply say that when we do Qigong, we get back to normal, or what we should have been had we not been so reliant upon speech, travel, radio waves and television in modern times. Obviously, when a part of the body is not used, it becomes useless, like a leg muscle that has to be re-trained after a long illness of inactivity. We use our Pineal gland very rarely and on the odd occasion that it does work, we are amazed and call it coincidence or E.S.P. etc. These things should happen all the time but we have little use for real communication skills because it’s so easy to pick up a phone or to watch the news on the TV. Qigong helps our Pineal to work again by getting in touch with the ‘ground’ and ‘ground Qi’. This is the reason that in all internal martial arts, we are told to do nothing! This does not mean that we do not move or look or hear, but it means that our conscious brain rests while we practice thus giving our so-called extra-sensory organs a chance to re-establish themselves within our framework. However, it is not that easy of course as it takes much training before we are able to perform movements that are alien to us at a sub-conscious level. Hence the saying that it takes years before one advances in his or her Taijiquan training. It only takes a short time to learn the basic movements of Taijiquan. However, they are only that, movement! We must take these movements to a much higher level, a sub-conscious level so that they become like everyday things, like breathing or our heartbeat, they must the THAT automatic.

The reptile brain is that brain, part of the ‘Triune Brain’ that we use for survival; it is our oldest brain with the ‘Paleomammalian Brain’ (known as the "Limbic System" since 1952) being next and the youngest brain is called the ‘Neomammalian Brain’. All reptiles have the Reptile Brain, all mammals have the Paleomammalian Brain plus the Reptile Brain but it is only the higher Mammals such as humans that have all three brains.

Paul D Maclean in his exemplary work on the "Triune Brain" says of the Reptile Brain: "The remaining brainstem and spinal cord constitute a neural chassis that provides most of the neural machinery required for self-preservation and the preservation of the species".

The Reptile brain is where all of our ancient memory is stored, things like past lives, who we were and who we are, what we did and what happened to us, it’s all there for us to tap into if we wish to. Why would we want to do this? It is many people’s belief that stuff that happened to us in previous lives shows up on out current physical body. Like a birthmark that could possibly be linked back to when a previous incarnation was flogged for stealing a loaf of bread? So if we can get in touch with that memory that is causing the birthmark, then this is the first step in releasing the anguish caused by that ancient memory. The birthmark will not go away of course (many however believe that even this will disappear), however, the pain caused to our sub-conscious mind will be taken away from our knowing why. And any modern physical or emotional damage is usually easily fixed by allowing the patient to see why they are in such a mental state.

When a child is born it has to rely solely upon instinct and sensory stuff and reflexes. The child has no way of learning what is right or wrong. So it is little help to slap a child or chastise it in any way until it’s next brain comes into play so that is able to learn. When a child is slapped while still in the reptile brain mode, its only recourse is to go into survival mode (reptile brain mode) and as it cannot fight back, only cries! So how stupid is it to slap a child or to shake it to teach it a lesson when it has no way of learning!

Science now tells us that the reptile brain is that part that is in charge of these things. A child for instance knows nothing about the fact that if it fell off a table it would hurt itself, but if this happens, it will make an attempt to grab or in many cases it will not venture past the edge of the table. Why, because the reptile brain is looking after it.

Normally, there is no need to access the reptile brain in normal life. However, in order to learn properly the internal martial arts we must have access to this brain. It causes us to stand out from the so-called hard styles, as there is no mention of the reptile brain in any hard style that I know of. Hard styles are ‘hard’, they cause someone to be continually on the lookout for danger, and this is because hard styles are purely physical with little or no internal aspect. In the internal arts, we are taught that we are normal people, artists, writers, poets, schoolteachers, mechanics, mild mannered reporters etc. And we do not have to be tense and aware of an attack at any time! If an attack does happen our reptile brain kicks in and we are into survival mode becoming a raging animal fighting for our lives, with our physical conscious brain totally unaware of what is happening. We have of course done the training to cause our body to react with the correct movements but these have been done so much that they are now reflex actions that work independently from the conscious brain.

So an internal stylist does not LOOK like a martial artist because he or she does not have to! We can be totally happy in knowing that that instinctive survival mode will kick in at the right time taking care of business and not allowing our artistic brain to be affected by this confrontation. To this end, the internal martial arts of Taijiquan, Baguazhang and Xing-I Ch’uan have all been developed to cause the body to move in a self-defence manner automatically and reflexively.

Western science now accepts that we have a reptile brain, so much so that the rule in judging whether or not someone is clinically dead is to find out if the reptile brain is still functioning by sending out electrical waves. If it is not, then the person is dead!"

~Erle Montaigue

The Truth

"The idea of god as a conscious decision-maker puzzles me... It just seems so unnatural or artificial/man-made. Just "our" freedom of choice seems unnatural. Now to say there is an omniscient and omnipotent consciousness capable of choice and a plethora of other human-like qualities seems just as, if not more unnatural.

We know that we as individuals are imperfect and fake. We all have our "own" ideas of whats correct; perhaps we are all incorrect. What makes one view or decision more correct than another? It all depends on ones sense of perception.

To me decisions seem so unnatural. With our ability to act and decide, it seems we complicate the natural simplicity of nature.. The most natural way is a way of no action or no mind. Ones actions and mind only complicate and for this reason receive the title, "mother of the 10,000 things". There is no such thing as perfect actions. All actions have good and bad consequences whatever they may be. In addition, so are decisions imperfect. Our decisions, values and beliefs, seem to stray from the natural truth... The "truth" is unexplainable... and when we try to title what the "truth" is we forget to title what its not. This is because we view an illusion of the "truth" through a tiny viewpoint. This is "our" perception. An illusion in which "our" false-ego manifests.

This is why it is said so many times that we will never understand the truth until we can toss our false-ego aside. And once we do this, we cease to exist. This is why it is impossible for "us", as ego-bearing individuals, to comprehend the truth. We are too guilty of complicating simplicity, and the "truth" is the most simple of all. This is why, to the individual, the farthest thing from comprehension is the "truth"; our minds are too complex to comprehend the simplicity of the natural way.

To my knowledge, The truth is comprehensible as an ego-less experience. This is why we cannot fathom it and why we cannot explain it. Our false-consciousness is limited to singular perception. This singular perception is never truly "understood". What we call "understanding", is due to how one's experience compares relative to their others. Our language - and in fact science as whole for that matter - is only a relative understanding as well. Language, and science are both tools of discriminating, dividing, comparing, measuring, categorizing, etc. Due to this, a world of intellectual distinctions is created; of opposites which can only exist in relation to each other.

Because both our false-consciousness, our language or form of communication and the way we understand our world is only strictly known relative to our man-made divisions and distinctions, we will never know/comprehend/understand the exact truth. Because of this, we must go beyond our false-consciousness and let go of our false-ego which divides us from the whole. We must go beyond language and our primitive form of communication and into a realm of definite experiences. We must go beyond science and into a realm of understanding as a whole; not an array/gradient of complex relative nonsense.

Once we realize this, and escape the limits of what we believe is our reality, will we comprehend the truth."

~The KRippled Khemist

How The System Is Controlled

"Have you ever heard that phrase, "everyone knows that mate."? Well, why does everyone know that? Well it's because the system is controlled by what i call repeaters. They're people in the situations of power and influence who just repeat what someone else tells them. A doctor is repeating what they were told at medical school and what the drug companies tell them. You got teachers who repeat what they learned in their exams and what they learned at teacher training college and they repeat that to the next generation. The great repeaters are what pass for journalists. Journalists are supposed to tell us whats happening in the world, but the fact is they don't know what's happening in the world. They know nothing! So, this is what they should be saying if they were telling the truth:

"Now over to Westminster where the latest news from David Icke"

"Thank you "you". Well, I got to be honest mate. I haven't got a clue what's going on! I'll tell you what my job is, right? I wear a dark suit, not normally, but you know, I'm just playing here. Anyways, I just came over from over there and I tell you what they told me is going on and I deliver it as if I know what's goin on and its really true. I haven't got a clue if it's true! But they tell me and they wouldn't lie would they? I mean, would Tony Blair lie about what's really happening? i mean would George Bush? Please... I'm a journalist, trust me. And so, what we call news "you", what you get paid a lot of money for reading articles about is merely propaganda that they have told me and I tell you. David Icke. BBC. ITN. CNN. CBS. SkyNews. Westminster.""

~David Icke

Christianity

"Christianity is a religion with a dubious history, yet many of the doctrines and stories are worth study. It is a religion which was created for political reasons. Constantine, The Emperor of Rome, knew one of the most basic tenets of government was the control of its people. The governmental control of people becomes much easier and effective when that government is able to also assume a "divine" authority. Although Rome holds no exclusive right to this idea, they certainly have etched their mark on history, enforcing their particular political machine. Christianity is the product of a governmental council acquiring and examining as many of the world's religious doctrines they could find; in order to create a "One World Religion". They took ideas and doctrine from Egyptology, Mithraism, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Torah of the Jews, and many others, picking the parts they wanted to include, altering them as they wished, discarding the parts they did not want included, and finally compiling their own plagiarized (and altered) writings to create the new Catholic (one from all) Bible. Since this was a plagiarized and altered conglomeration of many older works, many symbolic tenets have managed to retain their original meanings."

~James Arthur

Tai Chi

"As we all may have heard of that Tai Chi Chuan-"the ultimate fist"-was originally developed as a martial art; however, with those seemingly flimsy forms and stagnant movements, can Tai Chi Chuan really live up to what it claims, the "ultimate"? The answer is yes, and no. No, technically, Shao Lin Kung Fu appears to be stronger and more, however, no matter how many forms one would like to add up, the ultimate form remains "formless," or form-free form, so, yes, Tai Chi Chuan reaches the "ultimate" by pushing beyond forms, and that is called "Tai Chi."

Tai Chi (太 極 ), literally means "the grand terminus," as it is taken from the meaning of "beyond the ridge of a roof." However, the metaphor goes beyond mere forms, Tai Chi is also the result of the whole classical Chinese view on existence. Didn't ancient Chinese "live" the same way we do, typically, the life phenomenon that described by science? The answer is actually quite surprising, no.

To account for their existence, sages of ancient Chinese devised a theory known as "Yin-Yang (陰 陽 )." According to the ancient classic "Huang Di Nei Jing," (黃 帝 內 經 , Yellow Emperor's medicine classic, which lays the foundation of the Traditional Chinese Medicine, or TCM), a Yin-Yang, or Yin and Yang, "have name but no form," that's to say that Yin-Yang is not a real mass but a set of "properties" that depicts how all things that come to being perpetuated and/or withered.

Literally, Yin and Yang are only referred as a sense of direction: the direction facing the Sun is called Yang, symbolizing "visible"; facing away from the Sun is called Yin, symbolizing "invisible"; nevertheless, they have been developed to become the metaphor for the two opposing forces of an existence. However, it's not because they are a pair of opposing forces that they can be called Yin and Yang. The forever-entangled web of Yin and Yang depicts some interesting properties.

A pair of Yin and Yang has four properties: 1.) Dui Li Tong Yi (對 立 統 一 ): They are the only two "opposite" forces that form the "whole." 2.) Xiang Ke Xiang Sheng (相 剋 相 生 ): They "suppress" and "nourish" the opposite at the same time. 3.) Wu Ji Bi Fan (物 極 必 反 ): They revert to the opposite side when they push beyond their limit. Last but not least 4.) Ji Jin Ping Heng (極 盡 平 衡 ): They maintain a dynamic balance, which is called "harmonized Yin and Yang," where ten-thousand things all flourish, so is the world/universe.

Based on Yin and Yang, the ancient Chinese view of life is not as a "fixed" entity but the flow of Yin and Yang two Qi (energy). Life begins as the world/universe forms. According to the Yellow Emperor's Classic, before the beginning, the world is neither thing nor non-thing called Hun-Tun (渾 沌 ), "chaos." Out of chaos, an order emerges, against stillness something is moving, a motion comes to exist. The primal motion is called Yuan-Qi (元 氣 , the primal energy). As Yuan-Qi splits and breeds Yin and Yang, life begins to taking shape. As life force breeds "Nian" (念 , thought), and thought forms mind, and mind in turn acknowledges the existence of life, life comes to being. As life perpetuates, Yin and Yang continue to evolve, where Yang floats to form the sky and Yin sinks to form the earth. As the harmonized sky and earth nourishes the ten-thousand things, the universe forms, and we human-Ren(人 )-prospers among them.

With such fluid, changeable characteristics it's easy to see that the world/reality based on Yin and Yang is not fixed. Such fluidity poses a difficult challenge to the westerners, who in general have a dualistic worldview such as a physical world-body-and non-physical world-mind-are two separated entities. However, the worldview of Yin and Yang presents a different reality.

Still, what may be the Yin and Yang exactly in this physical world? Breathing: inhale is Yin, and exhale is yang. Body and mind, where body is Yin, and mind is Yang. The harmonized body and mind is also known as Unism (Yi-Yuan, 一 元 ) where mind perceives and the body responses spontaneously. In such spontaneity, the distinction of body and mind vanishes and the two merge into "Unism," the total harmonious state of mind and body, a state of what is body is mind and what is mind is body. And that's the world of Yin and Yang.

In Tai Chi, our bodies are viewed as: The Tai Chi body is One, left and right make Two (Er-Yi, 二 儀 ); up and down make Four (Si-Xiang, 四 象 ), that's our four limbs; elbows and knees make Eight (Ba-Gua, 八 卦 ); plus hands and feet that total fifty-six sections make a total sixty-four sections (64 Gua) of the body. As the body is formed, so is the mind, as it acknowledges the sixty-four sections of the body. So, if mind ever wants to move the body to go where it wants to and balances against external force at the same time, it must coordinate all those sixty-four sections into one harmonious unit, and that's quite a complicated balancing act. Various Tai Chi Chuans or internal exercises were developed to explore and to achieve that end.

To reach the state of Tai Chi, the body must be allowed to reach the maximum performance. It's when the maximum performance reaches the ultimate state, Tai Chi transcends the physical body into Unism.

The transcendental path begins with Tai Chi Chuan thirteen steps; known as "Eight Jings and Five Directions (八 勁 五 行 )." "Eight Jings and Five Directions" happen naturally, some does without even knowing them. However, knowing them makes the method even more certain.

Jings(勁 )are mental power which utilize Qi to maintain the body postures. "Eight Jings" are Peng (掤 ), Lu (履 ), Ji (擠 ), An (按 ), Cai (採 ), Lie (列 ), Zhou (肘 ), and Kao (靠 ), which are eight principles and techniques to use Qi to move and to reshape the body on a static footing.

Peng is to pressurize the body and to project the Qi to the outside edge of the body (like a toad expands itself before a fight). The foundation of Peng is the Bow and Arrow stance. The Bow and Arrow stance is front leg "Bow" (bent) and back leg "Arrow" (straight). As the back leg pushes straight, we are neutrally forward. Some practice Peng with a bent rare knee to maintain the flexibility. However, such "improvement" does not concur with the nature of Peng-to Peng like "the way air fills the void."

Yielding and resisting at the same time, Lu is to reduce the Qi from the outer edge of the body without losing contact of the outside forces. The key to Lu is to shift the weight back to back leg and maintain the balance with it.

Ji is to squeeze; Ji is robust, covering space-time without "a hair spread of separation."

An is to push; expanding the Qi like a running stream, subtle but last, the way of An is to push intensively but steadily.



Cai is to pick, formless but delicately balanced.

Lie, splits or spins. Lie is to spin by rotating the hips.

Zhou, elbows, means using elbow for shorter distance.

Finally, Kao; Kao is to strike like "falling mountain," unstoppable yet no bouncing. Kao illustrates the idea of "being there at the right time and the right place."

While Eight Jings are used through out the forms, however, they can be easily found at the beginning of the popular Yang style long form. As it begins, "Zuo (left) Peng (左 掤 )" then "You (right) Peng (右 掤 )," we expand our space. Once we expanded, only way to move without changing the footing is to retreat, Lu is to shift the weight from the front leg to the back leg. To balance the yielding, we resist by "Soothing the Phoenix Tail" (Lan Que Wei, 攬 雀 尾 ) which in essence is Lu. To regain the space lost during the retreat, we squeeze in; Ji by pushing the forward knee and shifting the weight forward to occupy the space. Then Lie to split the Qi in "Open," and An to push in "Close" (Ru Feng Si Bi, 如 封 似 閉 ). Cai to balance the changes in the beginning of "Single Whip," and finish the "Single Whip" (Dan Bian, 單 鞭 ) by a symbolic Kao by pushing the left palm and the left knee forward into positions. Kao, though a trace may be found in Yang style "Slate Fly (斜 飛 式 )," however, it is better illustrated in Chen style's "King Kong Nails Fist" (Jin Gang Dao Chui, 金 剛 搗 捶 ) in the synchronicity of fist strike and foot stump.

As Eight Jings display Qi statically, "Five Directions" are used to carry the motion. "Five Directions" do not just mean some static directions, but also imply the orientation of the self, the front, the back, the left, the right, and above all the center. The emphasis of the orientation may seem trivial, but, is the front what the eyes facing, or what the body facing? To step forward heel first, are we moving forward or backward? Orientation cannot be done by just to discern the directions, it must also be felt. In feeling, we traverse the No-mind land, where No-mind is a state of mind where mind is no longer there.

In the No-mind environment, the front can be referenced by proper alignment of these three lines: the eyes line which forms the vision, the shoulder line, and the waist (hips) line. In a natural standing position, these three lines are generally parallel to each other; the body is then said to be "straight." The vision is the front, Yang; the invisible part is the back, Yin. Come with the front, there are sides, left and right.

Turning means when all three lines change direction to maintain a "straight" alignment. When these three lines are not parallel, the body is said to be "twisted." As the body "twists," Yin and Yang change. The orientation is lied on the sense of this balance of Yin and Yang of "straight and twist."

By moving forward, moving backward, turning left, and turning right, combining with twisting, spinning, Five Directions describe a dynamic environment where we remain centered.

Doing Tai Chi Chuan, by the ancient Tai Chi Chuan classics, is actually "feet stepping Five Directions and hands wielding Eight Jings" (Jiao Cai Wu Xing, Shou Hui Ba Jing , 腳 踩 五 行 ,手 揮 八 勁 ) to deliver the Qi to go where we want it to go. In Tai Chi Chuan, power, as Qi, is "issued from the feet (heels)," (Fa Yu Gen, 發 於 跟 ) "controlled on the waist," (Zhu Zai Yu Yao, 主 宰 於 腰 ) and "displayed in the hands" (Xing Yu Shou, 形 於 手 ). To achieve the maximum effect of Qi, Qi must be expanded along the least resistant path. As the Qi issued from the heels travels upward through knees, hips, back, to shoulders, elbows, to wrists, and displayed in hands, Eight Jings are used to open, close, move, and twist the joints to provide a proper channel (body posture) for the Qi to flow through.

As Eight Jings synchronize the body movement with the Qi, the least resistant path is reached when the body movement matches the Qi it delivered. As they do, Eight Jings transcend the whole body into interwoven of Qi, that is shaped by expanding, contracting, twisting of the joints along the lines from heels to the fingertips.

In Tai Chi Chuan practice, hands are held as "Yin-Yang Hands." The palm represents Yin, the back of a hands represents Yang. "Yin-Yang Hands" is referring to a two hands' relation that is one hand is Yin (the palm), the other hand must be Yang (the back). Yin-Yang Hands are maintained through out the forms; that is, when one hand moves, both hands will move in a synchronized fashion; one hand turns to Yin, then the other hand will turn to Yang at the same time; one hand moves up, the other hand moves down to balance the change. By our nature, the movements of Yin-Yang Hands describe a "ball" where the palms are moved along the surface of it.

When we play the ball by moving the wrists, we are playing a small ball. Normally, we control the ball by moving the shoulders, which will give us a ball about the size of our chests. And even bigger ball can be wielded if we control it from the heels. As Five Directions expand the ball by moving the heels to where Eight Jings are most efficient, with Eight Jings and Five Directions pushing the body to the maximum performance, the movement of Yin-Yang Hands describes the elusive "Tai Chi Ball."

As the balance of Yin and Yang shows a way to Tai Chi, Tai Chi Chuan is to learn the balance of Yin-Yang Hands to learn the harmony of Yin and Yang. As Yin-Yang Hands form a Tai Chi ball, practicing Tai Chi Chuan is actually learning how to roll the Tai Chi ball. "Tai Chi Ball" is the "perfect" ball. When you find the "Tai Chi Ball," you'll know what Tai Chi Chuan is, the formless form. As Tai Chi Ball transcends the forms, the next step is to transcend the mind.

"Tai Chi is the gateway to Tao(太 極 乃 入 道 之 基 )," proclaimed by the Tai Chi Chuan founder Zhang San-Feng (張 三 丰 ), lays the intention of the practice, Tai Chi Chuan is a moving meditation. And Tai Chi Chuan traverses the universe by "moving" through it.

Tai Chi Chuan begins with Wu-Chi. Wu-Chi symbolizes the state of non-existence. Tai Chi begins as we breathing in. As the breathing continues, two things happen: the sensation of the breathing and the sensation of the weight. As we feel the sensations, there is mind. Come with mind, there is the body. Initially, the mind and body are not separated, just like a new born baby's mentality--it thinks as it moves. It is the later learning that separates the mind and body. Thus, to unify the mind and body, we have to un-do the learning.

For no way to anchor a mind, we use breathing to hold our mind. The strategy is as Qi drives the body, mind also rides along. So, eventually they meet. Qi is spawned out of Dan-Tian (丹 田 ). Dan-Tian is a point in the body where breathing is initiated. Located close to the center of gravity, Dan-Tian is also known as the "weight." To move, we have to move the weight first, it is the "control at the waist." Supported by our feet, the weight is rest on either or both feet. The foot that holds the most weight of the body is the anchor point, which depicts a sense of direction: it is inward when we move toward the anchored foot, and it is outward when we move away from the anchored foot. As in term of Yin and Yang, inward is Yin, outward is Yang (陰 入 陽 出 ). Thus, breathing in is inward, and breathing out is outward. Then, to flow with breathing, we move our bodies inward when we breathe in and outward when breathe out. As the practice continues, our bodies develop a rhythm that is synchronized with breathing.

With mind concentrates on breathing, and breathing drives the body along, we are in the position to make the transformation that unifies the mind and body. Notice how thought disappears when the thought touches its true reality? When the idea of body (mind) and the body are in perfect harmony, thought disappears. Mind reflects only the pure senses of the body, and the body flows with breathing on its own. Finally, as mind and body merging with breathing, mind forgets self and the body loses its form. In a mess where a unified mind and body prevails, we find that we are no longer performing but being performed, as without mind, we are only the media. The perfection that we experienced is not ours but the making of nature, the ultimate reality, Tai Chi.

As Tai Chi Chuan practice moves through the initial stage of forms to the state of ever-perpetuating Tai Chi Ball to the natural state of mind and body, nature trues. As the body moves according to its nature, mind un-learns itself and re-learns the true essence of nature, thus, becomes a No-mind. With No-mind, the body moves with its natural agility and grace. As mind and body merge into a unified mind and body, where mind "sees," and the body "does" spontaneously. In Tai Chi Ball, Qi is "here" and "there" all at the same time. Tai Chi Chuan transcends the universe into Unism. As body moves naturally coordinated, mind merges into Unism; mind forgets self, and body loses its form. When we reach the stage of "no body and no mind," all is left is Unism itself, we will have entered the realm of Tai Chi. Tai Chi Chuan is the "ultimate fist"."

~Ichin Shen

Psilocybin Fungi

"Life is art. Life is choices computers can't make; self expression. Life is self expression.

Is travelling to "my" new altered state of consciousness like obtaining the truth? Thus me feeling like my egofull self is on the correct path, or is it me creating a truth identical to "my" truths, and thus feeling self accomplished when really my truths are no more or no less false than my trips.

Life's a trip.

Is the path of nature no mind (egoless) or am i already one with the path of nature and my choices like everyones are the natural balance in application (egofull)?

Words suck...

Life is so fucked, why would i wanna even try to figure out all that is? Sometimes it's just best to find comfort in societal norms and just call it that.

I become cynical, because every person is constantly trying to fulfill something that is false to the source. But whats worse is they call it "truth", and what's far more worse is that i am guilty of this...

When i experience or realize what life is, i don't know what to do other than have or fight a seizure.

The feeling of faeries on my neck (green, blue, white, red faerie dust)

Why is something something?

Life is so... FUCKED

I don't know anything...

I just became false music in false action.

When i realize we are, i become scared for myself.

The difference from nirvana (egoless) and maya (egofull) is a seizure.

A picture only is a bunch of colours coming together.

How come just taking a second to experience "now" is titled strange or weird by society

Ego really is so false to all but so true to the one or individual.

I am having so many FUCKED, plethoras of epiphanies and paradoxes and i don't even know what half of that means???

I'm scared if i eat psilocybin mushrooms one more time i'll end up in a monastery in tibet meditating (Anatta)

Fuck art. Art is an illumination of false ego.

Is the reality we manifest based off of what we as a whole find comfortable? Is it something emplty of essence we create falsly to fall back on when we reach the stage of unknowing/egoless/no self, or what i like to call a seizure?

Everyone needs psilocybin mushrooms! but fuck that... what i just said is only my false ego emanating.

Peeing your pants is just peeing your pants. Everything just is to the egoless.

Enlightening is tossing aside/not givin a fuck about what means everyhing to you.

Everyone is a kindred soul... just that! No need to look past that. One can't without bringing in his or her false ego

Walking is the new dancing.

It's ok that i don't know how i am.

The ultimate truth is a disease to society or to oneself for that matter. Enlightenment is a disease to society.

There is no mushroom, it is all self pursuing no self.

To be enlightened is to be cynical about everything.

That bass tickles my asshole."

~The KRippled Khemist

The Source

"The universe... An endless void of infinite possibilities.
Truely nothing is but the universe/nature/the source of all.
In order to experience this one must abolish ones ego to form a union with nature.
In doing this, one ceases to exist, one ceases to question and one just is.

The power of nature is so great; it is the source of all.
When the absolute void is, the great polar opposites freely flow/oscilate.
And this is why nature is so vibrant and powerful.

Wherever exists polar opposites exists a potential difference.
And a potential difference creates/generates a constant flow of movement.
Thus, nature never ceases to act, yet never acts at all in the first place.

The way nature follows is always the most natural path.
Like water at one relative gravitational height flows to a relatively lower gravitational height to achieve a stable state.
The water doesn't act, it only takes the most natural path.
Now imagine a void of polar opposites (in stillness integrating and in movement differentiating) constantly following this natural path with no awareness of time and no end in sight.
This is nature.
This is the universe.

This flow creates/generates energy, and this energy is everywhere and infinitely potential.
The only reason one perceives "personal truths" is due to our false-ego which titles one an independent individual/self seperate from the source of all.
This forms/gives us our state of consciousness and is the reason we take the roll of the observer/participator in this void.

It all depends on the observer/participator as to how they perceive this void of infinite possibilities.
But because of the ego, one titles what one perceives as "things", thus one is the creator of the 10,000 things and one's consciousness shapes one's illusion of an external world.

Titling a void of potential infinite possibilities as "things" and defining each "thing" with more "things" creates a neverending complexity constantly straying farther and farther from what's true.
Once one titles or defines what one percieves, one fails to recognize what truely is. What is, is the void of infinite potential unique to all limiting forms of consciousness.

Creating this "neverending complexity" is like trying to define god. Once one states what god is, one limits what god is and fails to recognize it's infinite potential. The ego manifests constant illusions and constant complexities. The reason one cannot truely understand the nature/the source of all, or even the meaning of life for that matter, isn't because it's too complex of a concept for one to fathom, but because it's an experience too simple for ones complex "self" to comprehend/experience.

To reach this enlightened state of being one with the source and it's infinite supply of great energy, one must diminish the existence of the ego through meditation. If one too creates an empty void in oneself, free of stiffness,suffering and intention, one will reach an internal state of free-flowing polar opposites. In turn, creating/generating a healing/strengthening flow of energy most commonly referred to as "chi", "ki", "prana", etc."

~The KRippled Khemist

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