The Pa Kua Mystery

Do enough Pa Kua Chang and something really weird happens. Pa Kua, as many people know, is that martial art where you walk in a circle endlessly.

Circles where you find loops within spirals within circles. To explain this really weird thing that happens in Pa Kua Chang, let me explain a couple of things first. Understand these things, and you will find that weird is normal in this universe, and normal is weird. Okey dokey?

The circle must consist of eight steps from beginning to end. This is about one good leg sweep, or six feet in diameter. And, of course, the beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning, and so on.

Long time Pa Kua students claim that if you explore various positions of the palms as you walk the circle, that the positions stand for various phenomena. Fire palms, water palms, lightening palms, thunder palms, and so on.

By following this analogy they have created a separate and entire universe. While this universe can occupy a student for a lifetime, there hasn’t been a good explanation for what is happening, up till now.

When you create this Pa Kua universe, you should understand that the body is a machine. Just like alternating current, power goes down and up the legs. You should confirm it with a good dictionary, at this point, that power is energy, and energy is the capacity for work, and the capacity for work is how much weight you can lift.

Energy of the body is credited with being created by the tan tien. The tan tien is a point a couple of inches below the navel. The tan tien sends the energy down and up and the legs and back into the tan tien. What happens is that the body becomes a capacitor, a storage device, and the energy can be stored for later use. But also, and most interesting, is that after walking the circle sufficient with the idea I’ve detailed here, you will experience actual lightening going up and down your legs.

You will also, as you explore the potential of the palms in conjunction with the storing of the energy, experience a barber pole type energy swirl up and down your arms. Pa Kua is not mystical, it is common sense physics, but it does take a dedicated practitioner and a calm mind to experience what I have explained here.

For the body to start acting as a capacitor one must tell the body to do so enough times and with enough sincerity, and this while walking the circle enough times. If one learns to believe that this universe is not a trap, but a journey, what I have told you here is not only possible, but even easy.

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How to Create a Motor in the Martial Arts

Here an old post that deserves a new read…

One of the more profound mysteries in the martial arts is the concept of Chi. Chi is a mystical energy that pervades the universe in mysterious ways. And, chi is supposed to be a mystical energy that after a lifetime, you can use to do superhuman things. Unfortunately, proof seems to be sadly lacking for these claims concerning Chi. Maybe there are a few people who can do things, but most people can’t, and just a few exceptions here and there don’t prove the truth of certain theories concerning the subject of Chi. Fortunately, there is a theory that will result in Chi, that is not mystical, and that will work. A motor is two terminals which result in tension. Everything in the universe can be defined as a motor. Every tension in the universe is the result of a motor. An atom has a proton and electron interchanging to create energy. A cell has sodium and potassium interacting to create energy. Everywhere in the universe that you find two terminals opposing, you will find energy, and you will find a motor. And, when you take a martial arts stance with the human body, you have increased your weight, and this causes energy to move between the body and the planet. When you shift the weight from leg to leg, from stance to stance, the weight moves up and down the legs, and this excites the tan tien, a spot two inches below the navel which generates energy for the body. Thus, there is energy, and the body is a motor, and you can call this energy chi. Here’s the problem: everybody concentrates on making the body strong, and so creates only the low level chi required to operate the body. What people should be doing is focusing awareness on the procedure. If you build the awareness it takes to create the energy, you will build the energy that will result in the ‘superhuman’ potential that people look to Chi for. Thus, do your form, build awareness, and concentrate not on the violence of action, not on building the body, but on becoming aware of what you are doing. Feel the energy going down and up your legs, feel the energy building in the tan tien, and feel your connection with the planet. Do this and you will shortly become aware of energy building in your body in a surprising way. Energy that tingles a body part just by thinking of it, energy that warms the palms upon mere thought. Energy that can be channeled throughout your body and into the various body parts, and can even be felt outside your body. Once you have started building energy in this manner, then you can start searching for more spectacular ways to use it.

How to Create a Motor in the Martial Arts

One of the more profound mysteries in the martial arts is the concept of Chi. Chi is a mystical energy that pervades the universe in mysterious ways. And, chi is supposed to be a mystical energy that after a lifetime, you can use to do superhuman things. Unfortunately, proof seems to be sadly lacking for these claims concerning Chi. Maybe there are a few people who can do things, but most people can’t, and just a few exceptions here and there don’t prove the truth of certain theories concerning the subject of Chi. Fortunately, there is a theory that will result in Chi, that is not mystical, and that will work. A motor is two terminals which result in tension. Everything in the universe can be defined as a motor. Every tension in the universe is the result of a motor. An atom has a proton and electron interchanging to create energy. A cell has sodium and potassium interacting to create energy. Everywhere in the universe that you find two terminals opposing, you will find energy, and you will find a motor. And, when you take a martial arts stance with the human body, you have increased your weight, and this causes energy to move between the body and the planet. When you shift the weight from leg to leg, from stance to stance, the weight moves up and down the legs, and this excites the tan tien, a spot two inches below the navel which generates energy for the body. Thus, there is energy, and the body is a motor, and you can call this energy chi. Here’s the problem: everybody concentrates on making the body strong, and so creates only the low level chi required to operate the body. What people should be doing is focusing awareness on the procedure. If you build the awareness it takes to create the energy, you will build the energy that will result in the ‘superhuman’ potential that people look to Chi for. Thus, do your form, build awareness, and concentrate not on the violence of action, not on building the body, but on becoming aware of what you are doing. Feel the energy going down and up your legs, feel the energy building in the tan tien, and feel your connection with the planet. Do this and you will shortly become aware of energy building in your body in a surprising way. Energy that tingles a body part just by thinking of it, energy that warms the palms upon mere thought. Energy that can be channeled throughout your body and into the various body parts, and can even be felt outside your body. Once you have started building energy in this manner, then you can start searching for more spectacular ways to use it.

Combat Strategies in Shaolin Gung Fu!

Shaolin Gung Fu VERY Effective in Combat!

Here is the lie: Kung fu is a physical art based on mythology, and it has no modern combat applications. The point is that Kung Fu is based upon five animals, and that these animals do not relate to combat. This idea, that the animals don’t relate to combat, is, as we shall see, is so ridiculous it is…ridiculous!

The five kung fu animals In the Shaolin Butterfly are not the classical five animals. The butterfly, the crane, the monkey, the tiger, and the dragon are the five animals in this kung fu. The battle strategies of Shaolin are easily illuminated through a study of these five animals.

The first animal is the butterfly, and the stance utilized by this animal is the back stance. This stance is used because the butterfly must flit and flee to avoid damage, and the back stance is a step backward. Thus, the direction of the Butterfly is to the rear.

The Crane is the second animal, and the Crane utilizes a one legged stance. Standing on one leg and using kicks a student will achieve great balance. Thus, the crane goes in an upward direction.

The third animal is the monkey, and the stance used by this animal is the horse stance. This stance requires that a person drive their weight downward and hold their position. Thus, the direction of the horse is straight down.

The tiger is the fourth animal, and the tiger utilizes a forward stance. This stance is designed for charging, for attacking, and it is an aggressive stance. Thus, the tiger goes in a forward direction.

The dragon is the fifth animal, and the dragon utilizes a twisted stance, with the body turned over the feet. This stance is good for spinning to catch an opponent unawares, catching oneself in awkward positions, and so on. Thus, the dragon moves in a spin or a circle.

If you examine the points of a compass you will find the directions that the five animals take, and a strategy based upon handling all incoming potentials of attack. The Monkey goes down and the crane goes up, the tiger goes forward and the butterfly goes back, and the dragon circles, which illuminates a distinct possibility for lateral motion.

The directions of these five Shaolin Butterfly animals create a thorough and strong strategy with no weak points–just one of the secrets of the Shaolin Butterfly, which you can find at Monster Martial Arts.

Energy Beams in the Martial Arts

The ability to create beams of energy, though I have never seen nor heard of it discussed, is at the heart of the martial arts. I include pressor or tractor or any other type of beam in this discourse. A beam is a line of energy thrust outward from thebody of the martial artist, and this beam is usually constructed upon a line, though it need not be. It can be said that your martial art is not a true martial art unless it builds the ability to create a beam of energy at will. Most martial practices on planet earth are aimed towards building muscle, or the shabby excuse of energizing body parts. The purpose of this article is to awaken the reader to the potential of creating beams of energy. The first thing to be understood is that the body is nothing more than a machine. It is an organic machine constructed of meat and bone and various linking systems. Indeed, to the person unused to a body, it can resemble a Rubic’s cube, though, in fact, it is very simple to use. To use the body as a beam generator one must practice classical forms, and understand the value of classical stances. To practice the classical stances requires work, which work necessitates the creation of energy in the Tan Tien, which is the one point, which is nothing more than an energy generator on a body/machine level. This work should be augmented by breathing in accordance with the expansion or contraction of the body. To stance, to work, to breath, to concentrate awareness along the path of the arms, to imagine. It is imagination that sets us apart from the beasts, and it is imagination that is necessary to create the idea of a beam of energy coming out of the body. You must practice until the mind is calm and then it will be able to imagine. To test your ability to beam it is necessary to use a simple and often over looked gimmick. Set up a candle and face it, punch, and stop your fist an inch from the flame. Do not trick flick the flame by leaving the line of the beam, but focus, and keep the line of the beam as straight as possible. With success over time, stop your fist two inches from the flame, then further. increase distance until you can put out the flame from across the room. Eventually, with great patience and desire, you will be able to merely look at the flame and make it go out. There are those that laugh and such practices as detailed here are of little importance, and there are those who will not persist, but seek the instant gratification of simple fighting. Then there are those who will discover the depths of their being through this simple exercise. The difference between the two is faith, belief in yourself, and the desire to awaken your true abilities, and thus awaken yourself.

Light Body Kung Fu and Walking on Water

Light Body Kung Fu is Here!

Light Body Kung Fu, sometimes called Light Kung Fu, is one of those legends that has a lot of substantiation. There are directions in old texts concerning the method, and every once in a while you see something really astounding that makes people think that such things are possible. This article is going to be concerned with offering directions for achieving that high Kung Fu ability.

Light Body Kung Fu Requires Mind over Matter!

Basic instructions for achieving light kung fu, and being able to do martial arts tricks like jumping six feet straight up, are usually childish, or esoteric. The childish are usually something like, ‘dig a hole and jump out of it one thousand times. Take one cup of dirt out of the hole every day, and in ten years you will be able to leap out of a twelve foot hole.

Let’s see: one inch a day, 365 days a year, ten years, 3650 inches divided by twelve…guy should be able to  jump 304 feet straight up. Maybe it was an inch of dirt every week? But that would still be over 25 feet straight up.

The more esoteric instructions involve things like breath to the tan tien while you do the dragon flies posture. The third chakra must be engaged on year four, and the fifth chakra will sleep on year nine. Pray to Buddha constantly while you do this.

Now, the childish and the esoteric out of the way, additional confusion is often offered by scientists. I came across the following analysis of light kung fu on a martial arts forum. Gigong is just the ability of transition of body weight between the two feet in such a way that the body weight never gets the chance or time long enough to accumulate and rest its fullness on to any of the legs in any giving period of time…and the paragraph goes on to describe shortening the cycle of stepping.

This last description is most interesting, a grand effort, but there is always a problem when somebody tries to describe something that is beyond physics with…physics. What I mean by this is that physics describes the universe, it doesn’t really tell you what it is and how it works. I know scientists will argue with this, and try to inflict their reasoning on what I say, but science can’t define the supernatural, such as light kung fu, changing wine into water, or, say, walking on water.

I had a student who could walk on water. Actually, what he did was run across the corner of a swimming pool. He would get a running start, do a couple of things with his mind, and run over the surface of the water without sinking.

What we are interested in, of course, is what he was doing with his mind. Gravity can be measured, of course; it can be described by physics, but it is still a notion that you must believe in for it to work. We are raised up to make physics work (trained by schools based in scientific thought), but the secret of light kung fu is to untrain your mind, to overcome the notion of gravity, and that takes a lot of kung fu discipline.

Going Beyond Physics With Martial Arts Chi Power

When it comes to Martial Arts Chi Power, there is an entirely different set of physics.
Physics is the simple act of measuring the universe. How dense is something, how fast is something, how strong is something, and so on.

What Can You Really Do with Martial Arts Chi Power?

Normal physics usually hinges on a couple of set in stone guidelines. For instance, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Gravity. These kinds of physics are called Newtonian physics after Isaac Newton.
Newtonian physics hold true for the universe, but they are relative when considered in light of where in the universe you are. If you measure a pound on earth, and a pound on Mars, there is going to be different mass, or size, or whatever, to that pound.
In the martial arts you can change physics, and make them relative without leaving the planet. This ability to alter physics is the ‘second set of physics,’ the physics is beyond physics,’ of the martial arts. It should be pointed out here that this second set of physics can be noted in practices other than the martial arts. However, the martial arts tend to ‘grow’ them consistently. It does take time, however, and there are practices which can develop one’s ability in this enhanced physics outside of the martial arts.
The physics of the martial arts are inherent in the concept of chi power, or ki energy, or some such similar term.
For the first set of physics one need merely drop an object, measure the velocity, the degree of bounce, and that sort of thing.
For the martial arts, and this is measurable in karate, kung fu, kenpo, or any martial arts system that has stances, one need merely stand with the feet spread apart and have somebody push on the shoulder.
At first, the person being pushed will be uprooted. But, by the simple expedient of sinking the weight, settling the energy of the body downwards, the stance becomes immoveable, and the person can no longer be moved.
There is no physical change in the stance. One does not lower the body physically or in any measurable fashion. This feat is done with the mind, by a mere change of mental intention within the person.
There are two things that should be noted as a result of this phenomena.
One: such energy is incredibly useful, for when channeled into blocks, strikes, kicks or what have you, the energy necessary for the technique becomes less and less, and the effectiveness of the technique becomes more and more.
Two: if a phenomena cannot be measured by measuring the physical universe, then it is likely the second set of physics that you are dealing with here.
A third thing to be observed, perhaps even more significant, is that this second set of physics, this martial arts chi power, is developed most easily and with the most factual accuracy through the practice of arts such as karate, tai chi chuan, kung fu, and so on. Simply, martial arts with stances treat the body as a motor, turn on the energy, teach one to use it, and tend to make the separation from Newtonian measurements to ‘otherworld’ and more ethereal measurements much more obvious. You can learn more about this subject in the book Matrixing Chi, available at Monster Martial Arts.

A Method Of Fixing Your Body Using Taekwondo, Kenpo, Aikido Or Any Other Martial Art

A Perfect Martial Arts Body!

I’m going to put a whole bunch of stuff together here, but it’s the straight goods. Stay with me, work your way through it, and you’ll be able to fix your body using the martial arts, and this means virtually any art. Karate, kung fu, taekwondo, aikido, kenpo, any art, and I recommend looking into a discipline such as Yoga.

First, I want you to understand that life is motion. To the extent that something is able to move, it is alive. To the extent that it can’t move, it is dead. This is an important thing to keep in mind when following the advice of this article.

Second, you are Awareness, and you are encapsulated in flesh. You can perceive with and through flesh, but you can’t perceive without Awareness. This is actually the prime factor in virtually all religions, and is core to the construction of the human being.

Third, for this example we’ll assume you have an injured shoulder. Take a push up position, or a modified push up position, and close your eyes. Look through your shoulder.

We are not utilizing the five senses, we are just becoming Aware. Become Aware through your good shoulder, now become Aware through your bad shoulder. This is to say that you should become Aware through your good shoulder, then become Aware through your injured shoulder.

You are actually becoming Aware of your Energy Body here, and you may notice that the two sides of your body are different. What you want to do is make the bad side like the good side simply through the fact of becoming Aware of the differences. Believe me, your body will go to the correct DNA structure without the need for anything other than just becoming Aware.

One last hint, you must relax. You can’t force the body into the proper DNA prescribed structure, all you can do is relax, and let the body/Energy/Mind stop holding the body in the injured position. Finally, do this through your martial arts practice, no matter whether it is Tai Chi Chuan, Pa Kua Chang, Hapkido, or whatever, and learn to course the Awareness through any stiff or injured body part, and that’s all there is to it.

Unfortunately, Man has become convinced that he needs doctors, pills, surgery, alternatives, and all that sort of thing. No, you, the spirit, the I Am, the Awareness, is what fixes you. And you can fix yourself of most any injury, or even illnesses, merely by doing the motions of Karate, Kung Fu, Aikido, or any other Martial Art, if you simply take the time to become Aware and use the method I advise here.

Yogata () The Yoga Kata is recommended for people wishing to rehabilitate injuries, get stronger, or just get started. Head over over to Monster Martial Arts and pick up a free book.

The Martial Glow of Good Health!

Martial Arts Awareness Turns on the Body!

A Phantastic Phun summer to you!
Man,
a work out a day…
It’s giving me some great ideas.
Have you ever noticed that?
That when you work out regular
you get ideas?
I mean,
you just get calm,
get the chatter out of your thoughts,
and suddenly you see things,
make connections.
And,
the more you work out
the better it gets.
I tell ya,
a work out a day is better than what the doctor ordered.

And,
speaking of doctors,
let me share my own personal get well method.
There are a couple of things you need to do to make this work,
but when you can do it,
things really happen.

I got my black belt in 74.
Then,
a few years later,
people started calling m a master.
I never said anything,
I just kept working out
and people started calling me a master.
It was weird.
And,
tell the truth,
I was too busy to really pay much attention.
The martial arts were just pulling me along.

Anyway,
when I hit Black Belt I was pretty well CBMed.
(Coordinated Body Motion)
by the time I hit mastery
I was pretty well matrixed.
I still had a lot of work to do,
but my arts were making sense,
fitting together.

Anyway,
when I CBMed
I experienced a bunch of stuff.
When I hit mastery I started to glow.
It sounds mystical,
but it’s not,
it’s just that a well tuned body,
not stop by a mind full of chatter
will glow.
Like a machine turned on.

Now,
what do you do with a glow.
Well,
whenever I am injured,
or sick,
I just glow into that body part.
Let’s say I break a toe,
I close my eyes
become aware of my toe,
and feed my awareness into it,
and there is a sensation like glowing
in my toe.
Like pleasurable pins and needles,
but much finer,
like a balloon filling up with warmth.

Now,
I do other things,
I do a lot of things,
but that is my mainstay.
It is directly a result
of martial arts practice,
and it grows stronger.

Anybody can do it.
But,
it gets better with CBMing,
and it is massive when you’re matrixed.
Remember,
CBM is to arrange your own body
so it moves logically and in order
(harmoniously),
and matrixing is when you arrange your art(s)
logically and in order
so they all fit together
harmoniously.

Now,
CBM
I talk out in a lot of books.
I say it quick and concise,
usually in formula,
and then I move on.
Look,
CBMing is to use the body as one unit,
do an art long enough
and it might happen.

Matrixing,
however,
without my data
will not happen.
Hasn’t happened ever
on this planet
before I figured it out.

So,
I know you know a lot,
I know you’re smart and can figure things out,
but if you want a leg up,
Matrix Karate is the main course,
it gives the basics of Matrixing,
and you can apply that matrixing
to any art you study.

You want to matrix Tai Chi?
Krav maga?
Kenpo?
Simply do the Matrix Karate Course,
and apply it all to your art.
Plug in the forms and techniques and concepts.
Do the actual matrixing applications drill
watch your mind slow down
watch all the inner chatter stop,
and start to see life as it really is.

Anyway,
there’s my pitch,
and if you have any health problems,
try my glowing method,
and keep trying it,
because the more martial arts you do,
and the more you try it,
the better it will work.
It is a cumulative thing.

Got to go now,
but you guys and gals remember,
a work out a day
keeps you in play.

Have a great and healthy summer!

http://www.monstermartialarts.com

Al

=o)

“A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.”

The Ordered Development Of Chi Energy In The Martial Arts

If you think the martial arts are about fighting, you have the wrong idea. They are about discovering the truth of you, they are about sculpting the energy of your body, they are about exploring your true potential. This bit of writing is a simple breakdown of how chi energy progresses in the Martial Arts. Check the video, it proves chi power, and then consider the rest of this article.

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 creates explosive power. This is hard chi that is common to kenpo, taekwondo, and any art which has striking and blocking in it. Learn the explosive power of Karate and this will enhance the energy 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.

Finally (though this is a limited list I present) would be a study of Tai Chi Chuan. This is suspended energy, and itt is a superior form of energy in a million ways. I have met many martial artists, however, who have lacked competence simply because theydidn’t understand the early types of martial arts power mentioned in this article.

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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