3 Internal Harmonies

Here is a reasonably in-depth description of the subtler aspects that a fighter needs to consider, using the "6 harmonies" model of 3 internal and 3 external harmonies. http://www.martialtaichi.co.uk

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[slipiak]

hm, i am not sure that you are more educated in martial arts than a famous general and warrior from Ming dynasty - Qi Jiguang, who wrote the book about martial arts, and he also divided the styles to external and internal. I think, that there is difference between internal and external styles... You know, there is a lot of teacher like you... good at talking, bad at practicing... (peace)

[martialtaichi]

@slipiak

Oh - old Qi Jiguang, or "Qi qi" as he liked to be called. Yeah, sure - I'm way better than him - taught him everything he knew, in fact. Apart from the bit about internal and external - he must have made that bit up. For the record, it has been stated that the term neijia first appeared in Huang Zongxi's 1669 Epitaph for Wang Zhengnan and then apparently only do distinguish between indigenous Chinese arts and foreign Buddhist arts - this as an act of defiance against the Manchus.

[starrtaiji]

xin=heart/mind shen=spirit. Please check into your tonal use of your mandarin.

[martialtaichi]

@starrtaiji

thanks for your input - I'm afraid my Chinese is not good

[morseson]

Harmonize the 3 burners, head, heart, body,

free associating vs. planning, empathy vs. expression, senses vs. work.

body ideas(tired, hungry, heavy, light, horny) vs heart ideas ( anger, pity, love) vs head ideas ( advantageous calculations, predictability, domain).

Qi is better described as a localized heightened awareness. The effort to read Braille could essentially focus qi info the fingertips. The exercise of moving qi is a way of consciousness expansion by learning to move/fix it.

[martialtaichi]

@morseson

With respect I'd say that that tells me nothing useful - nothing I can train. I can train tactile proprioception without ever once thinking about qi simply by doing applications. My views are not very orthodox, but even the Yang family said to focus on the spirit rather than the qi because focussing on the qi is the very thing most likely to cause a qi blockage - in other words: don't focus on localised sensations.

[slipiak]

@martialtaichi oh... :D:D:D:D ok! :)

[baguaplayer]

Very nice talk. Thanks.

[ShinFuYux]

It's so depressing to know that the good schools are always so far away. :(

[martialtaichi]

@martialtaichi

now if qi could be translated as "optimal use of all natural physical and biological laws, both internal and external to the practitioner [here applied in the most strategically advantageous manner for the fighter] " I'd be more tempted to go for it.