05-28-2013, 12:00 AM
Cool, Sacateca I've never seen Tai Chi used swiftly like that for self defense
Sen, yeah...what you're saying makes sense. The sensation of energy movement was inherent in the seeing it performed, when I saw it, for sure. (the rising/floating feeling with auditory signatures very familiar to me...often have that sensation before OBE...and that sun/portal...blaze that doesn't hurt the eyes..yeah I've seen that in association too)
The difference for me is about trying to bring something of that signature into what seems to be a very hard-packed reality in the tonal when I'm up and out and about in the middle of it...one that's predominantly draining via "friction" of hard elements against hard elements. Ideally, just the intended inflection of redeployment of energy, almost like a whimsical thought, should be enough...in fact there's a gradient taught in Dzogchen with respect to "gross" movements vs their more subtle analogs...the most subtle of which is simply visualizing without moving at all. Definitely their are some who exist so lightly in the tonal, "gross" movements probably aren't needed...can simply intent shift/adjustment in energy with a "thought" so to speak (although they probably still have to get up to go pee in the middle of the night ) . The rest of us muggles perhaps need something a little more aggressive to help shake things up on a bodily level.
Thus, the jazzercise
Sen, yeah...what you're saying makes sense. The sensation of energy movement was inherent in the seeing it performed, when I saw it, for sure. (the rising/floating feeling with auditory signatures very familiar to me...often have that sensation before OBE...and that sun/portal...blaze that doesn't hurt the eyes..yeah I've seen that in association too)
The difference for me is about trying to bring something of that signature into what seems to be a very hard-packed reality in the tonal when I'm up and out and about in the middle of it...one that's predominantly draining via "friction" of hard elements against hard elements. Ideally, just the intended inflection of redeployment of energy, almost like a whimsical thought, should be enough...in fact there's a gradient taught in Dzogchen with respect to "gross" movements vs their more subtle analogs...the most subtle of which is simply visualizing without moving at all. Definitely their are some who exist so lightly in the tonal, "gross" movements probably aren't needed...can simply intent shift/adjustment in energy with a "thought" so to speak (although they probably still have to get up to go pee in the middle of the night ) . The rest of us muggles perhaps need something a little more aggressive to help shake things up on a bodily level.
Thus, the jazzercise