NP-Taiji MayX 2018

[Keith Davis]

This sounds like pretty good advice.

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On May 31, 2018, at 10:03 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Joeseph.
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> In some ways, I think, the early feelers/mappers of the human energy fields are like shaman, explorers into hidden terrains.  The maps help, but aren't definitive, so dogma should be discarded at the start.  Intuition is the best "skill" on this turf.  Intuition should always be indulged on the spiritual path.  The Cosmos usually protects the naive seeker.  It wants to be discovered.  "It" IS ultimately us.
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> The more one studies the different ancient paths, the more they seem to agree, especially at their highest cosmological levels.  I think what feels best is the way to choose a path, until your path chooses you, and that rule still holds afterwards.
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> David Morris
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>> > On May 31, 2018, at 10:48 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>> > One of the key teachers of Tai ji, particularly on the west coast, Chungliang Al Huang, who learned his practice in China and taught for decades at Esalen, always used key Chinese words and pictographic imagery as part of how he taught. He always insisted that the pronunciation of chee/Qi/chi/ ji  sounded most like Ji or jee, always spelling the word as Tai ji.   He had a very philosophical, open approach to the forms which drew on Taoist thought and practice. He emphasizes inspiration and mind body connection over formal precision. On the other hand his own forms are stunningly graceful and probably very precise expressions of his tradition. In his classes he encourages a movement from traditional forms to a dancelike free form exploration centered in how the forms have been integrated into individual mind body.  
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>> > In response to David Morris:  In Al Huang’s book Embrace Tiger Return to Mountain, he talks about the origin/inspirational source of the forms/movements. The word Ji Gong, or Qigong, means the discipline or study of Ji (maybe Mike could give a better translation), and in that sense Al Huang is in agreement with David that the formal movements came out of an exploration of the flow of ji in the body. When you think about it, where else could the formalized knowledge come from? This would also be the source of the Chinese medical maps of energy flow.
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