Over at the Taijiquestion blog I posted a great article from Neigong.net (see blogroll links). Tonight I read another article from the Neigong blog, and was blown away; it’s as remarkable as the other one, perhaps even more so. What I’m talking about is: http://neigong.net/2007/01/11/how-to-train-your-spirit-and-energy-to-drive-the-body/.
The import and implications of what’s being talked about are so major, I won’t even try to comment on it here. The title of the article, contained in the URL I’ve copied here, describes the subject matter. This evening I was driving to a meeting of an organization I belong to. High summer in Northern California, a country highway connecting two towns, trees small and large all around, farms, houses, and the vaulting sky above. My mind was full of the Shen-related concepts and methods discussed in the article. A catch-phrase came to mind (I’m pretty good at catchphrases): “I don’t end at my skin”. Not the most elegant epigram perhaps, but to me it hits the nail right on the head. So I’m going to try to carve this real-ization into my consciousness. And hopefully, my taiji.
Normally this is the kind of stuff I would post over at Taijiquestion, my Mark II blog. But I have a specific reason for putting it here instead. In my previous post I asked a question, namely what is this “Holding Nothing” form that my teacher includes in his 108 Yang forms; why is it there; and what does it have to do with a martial art. Amazingly, the answer appears to be contained in an article I stumbled across “by chance” less than 12 hours after I posted the question. What I didn’t realize was how all-encompassing the answer could be. But that’s my own slowness of comprehension at not grasping the idea of holding ”The Ten Thousand Things” in my hands. What this means is that I think my teacher is wiser than I knew.
However I’d still welcome any readers’ comments on the posture, or any of these related matters! 
