World Of Swords

If you think the martial arts are about hitting people, you have the wrong idea. They are about discovering the truth that resides within you, they are about sculpting the energy of your body, they are about exploring your true potential as a human being. This bit of writing is a simple construction of how chi energy builds through the Martial Arts.

I should say, before we begin, that this is idealized. It happens as I say it happens if the art(s) you are studying have not been overly corrupted. Unfortunately, most arts have been corrupted, and only a study of Matrixing will revert them to their true potential.

We begin with Karate because it is simple, and because, having been the first martial art to hit it big in the US of A, and many parts of the world, Karate styles form an underpinning or basis for most other arts, even should they be overly different in their constitution. The cultures of the US and the world, you see, have gravitated to it, and many people have an underlying philosophy of Karate imbedded in their thought when they study other martial arts.

Karate deals with explosive power. This is hard chi that is common to kenpo, taekwondo, and any art which specializes in high impact striking techniques. Study the explosive power of Karate and this will build the chi power of any other art.

Once one has 'awakened' to the potentials of energy through Karate, there are many potential paths to follow. This writer prefers the path of Shaolin, for that art provides a 'rolling chi energy' type of power. However, if one hasn't become competent in Explosive Power, it can take many years, perhaps even decades, to properly develop this power.

After Shaolin Kung Fu one might consider a study of a Wudan style art such as Pa Kua Chang. This is a more drawn out variety of chi power, and the energy doesn't just travel up and down the legs, it spirals through the limbs. Again, most systems have become too corrupted to impart this efficiently (without many years of study, and even then there are problems), and one should make sure they have suspended chi power and rolling power from Karate first, and Shaolin second.

Last (though this is a limited list) would be Tai Chi Chuan. This is suspended energy, and it is superior in every way. I have met many people, however, who have lacked workability because they didn't study early types of martial arts power.

In closing, the arts are not separate, they are merely different slices of the same pie. One needs to study the whole pie if they wish to learn more than a slice. Further one should study Matrixing Technologies if they wish to make heads and tails of the whole thing.

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The absolute truth of the martial art known as Tai Chi Chuan is easily seen in a symbol that nobody understands. If you read to the end of my words here you will understand that symbol, and it will enlighten your practice of the martial arts. I am speaking of that symbol of the grand terminus which we call yin yang.

The symbol we call the Yin Yang is two fishes swimming is night and day is good and evil is...silly. The Yin Yang symbol has nothing to do with those beautiful but pint-sized observations possible to our short lived species. The Ying Yang symbol is actually an empirical observation and quite mechanistic approach to life in this universe.

Everything in the universe is a motor. A motor is defined as tension between two objects. Doesn't matter whether the tension is push or pull, just that the tension is, and that is what holds our universe together and...keeps it apart.

A simple little atom, with its protons and electrons, forever chasing and never catching each other, is but a motor. A cell, with sodium and potassium bubbling their happy little lives away, is just a simple, little motor. And this dichotomous viewpoint of the universe can be expanded to include all the combined motors, even through the confusion of machines, up to the repulsion and attraction of celestial bodies that sweep through the universe.

Doing Tai Chi you are pulsing energy up through the legs, across the generator, which is called the Tan Tien, and down the legs. Back and forth goes this alternating current, and the generator bubbles forth its unique energy called chi. Imagine the generator as a little cup of tea, being stirred through gentle motion, not to slosh over the sides, but to be mixed in motorific fashion, just enough to froth up a bit of steamy chi.

As you do Tai Chi you become aware of the space that your body occupies in space, and awareness hollows out the receptacle for this chi. Eventually the golden elixir, summoned far more efficiently and efficaciously than any ancient alchemist might believe, fills the body, becomes responsive to the wish and desire of the student/philosopher. Good health, strength and endurance, mental clarity, all are the product of a body made to function the way it was designed to be functioned.

Animals practice tai chi endlessly in the simple stretches of their natural movements, and wonder why we don't. Babies demonstrate high levels of Tai Chi, and are robbed of this ability through the cultural expectations which accompany the aging process. And, the space of yourself being found out, you know the answer to the questions...who were you before you were born, and who will you be after you die?

I sell nothing by telling you of this, I only search for people who can understand, and give away my knowledge. Can you have what I have said? Can you realize the truth of the eternal you that all love and none see?

Al Case has analyzed the martial arts 4O+ plus years. He has written hundreds of articles and had a column in Inside Karate. His work is available in a free ebook at Monster Martial Arts.