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principles foundations theories coming soon...but for now think about this:

 The Lineage

The word "lineage" in the practice and study of Internal Arts, connotates a family tree connecting a practitioner with their teacher and their teacher's teachers. The "lineage" is sort of an authentication of studying a system of practice that has an unbroken connection of valuable knowledge which has been passed down for many generations from teacher to teacher.

My belief and experience of the "lineage" is much more than a family tree or explication of a lengthy line of teachers. The "lineage" is a living energetic configuration of information that is the aggregate knowledge of practitioners who obtained some level of mastery and made the particular art their own. The 'lineage energy' exists in and of itself waiting to be discovered by those who make the art a life's practice. I believe when a person, in their practice of life,  align themselves on many levels, they become attuned to the existent lineage energy and become a conduit for its expression. The lineage comes through them as something that can be seen and felt and passed on....

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Resonance is a process of storing wave energy. One of the human body's systems is that of a complex, dynamic tuning fork. That system itself  having a frequency, a wave of its own, being able to suck, push, and pull other wave motions, store up the energy of waves, configure wave patterns, and discharge waves.

As modern as technology is, the definition of a wave is: a "disturbance in space." Disturbance being movement of something and space being emptiness.

If a wave is coherent, it has the ability to receive, and store and send information!

Coherent means the wave has a stable frequency (pattern) No noise. An unending smoothness.

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In the Emptiness

immeasurable quiet

pervasive stillness.

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Alignment and Relaxation (releasing) are a dynamic event. The body and universe are in constant flux. Quiet the mind, calm the heart and feel the many pulses of life within the many bodies. Harmonize them, create a condition of resonance between them. The body is an instrument that can be very finely tuned. Find the natural wave motions inherent in the bodies. Make a symphony of movement.

  Only working on the body is limited. For the body to open and function completely, work must be done on clearing the emotional, mental, psychic and karmic levels. Every wave influences all waves. The clearer you become in all the ‘bodies’, the more flexible, fluid, ethereal, and invisible the physical body becomes.

 Align with Nature. What does this mean? The seminal environment of Nature is that of gravity. Align with gravity! The human body has a most profound and 'natural way' to align with gravity. Learn and feel these alignments. Stand. Gravity is forever dynamic. You do not sink and be static in posture. Sinking is dynamic.

Gravity collides at the center of the Earth creating a pressure wave that expands out of the surface and into the atmosphere of the Earth. (...the Heavenly energy descends giving rise to Earth energy..) The dynamically aligned body can sense/play this wave form. To align with it helps the body to harmonize and heal. Feel for the subtlety.

Learn to feel and function from the center of your “Being”. The mind is everywhere within you; Wake it up! The mind ‘morphs’, the energy ‘configures’, the body moves; simultaneously. Have fun, steal a few seconds here and there and play throughout the day…

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Out of nothing: something; with the dimension of space/movement/time. A circle that experiences all dimensions. How many ways can a circle be played?

Space and Time,

these two begot the third:

Movement.

Movement creates the ten thousand things

Stillness annihilates unknowingly.

It can be difficult to be stillness. Our Earth spins around its axis at near a thousand miles an hour. The Earth hurls its orb around the Sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour. Our Solar system races within the Milky Way galaxy at five-hundred-fifty-eight-thousand miles an hour. The Milky Way galaxy winds its way through its Local Group system of galaxies doing six-hundred-forty-eight thousand miles an hour. And thoughts? Near the speed of light burning along at one-hundred-eighty thousand miles a SECOND! 

Stillness is found in movement through reference.

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One of the biggest problems/challenges faced in the life practice of internal arts is honesty. Growth of internal practice demands complete self honesty. The freeing and moving of chi in the deeper internal levels forces us to face reality without the ego's subjectivity. Deep fears will be loosened and rebel the light of day. Many a practitioner will overwork and struggle to maintain an image in which they hold themselves while the freed forces of nature will unrelentingly keep putting a mirror and message before them. They will see it but not look at it. They will hear it but not listen to it. If the internalist doesn't surrender to truth, all systems of their human existence will move more and more toward imbalance and illness. The practitioner either quits the practice or continues a life of quiet desperation hidden behind the creation of distractive noise hoping no one will notice the teetering existence subsequent to the superficial facade...

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Space is the predominate 'thing' in the body, in the universe. There is more space than there is of any 'thing'. It is the space within the cup that is useful. It is the space between four walls that is useful. It is the space within the body that is useful! The strong and noisy cannot fathom emptiness. Space is not empty. It is filled with the subtle potentials (quantum vectors) of mind, energy and spirit. To the initiated, space is coherently manipulated to interact with every aspect of the physical body.

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First, I fight. 

Then I learn how to fight. 

Then I learn why I fight.

Then I learn how not to fight.

Then I learn to heal myself.

Eventually I learn to heal others.

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Battlefield tactics:

first create confusion,

confusion leads to doubt, 

doubt leads to worry, 

worry leads to fear, 

fear leads to paralysis,

paralysis leads to death.... 

yield.

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You repeat doing a move to explore it, to study it, to understand it. Practice doesn't focus on 'getting it right'. In the practice we learn to listen and feel and move with/the mind. Listen and feel interactions, non-actions and interpret by 'being' and not through thought.

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Discover your 'feeling mind' within the physical body. This mind permeates the physical and ethereal body. It feels itself, its interactions with its environments. Quietness, stillness, and alignments dictate the ability to experience this 'feeling mind' and how and what it can move. Pushing hands with someone who can do this, one's body can receive a cellular communication of information that enhances practice/experience.

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Emptiness exists without cause. Inherent existence is a production by causes.  One can realize the emptiness of inherent existence and realize phenomena exists due to the faults embedded deep in our minds. Without training, the unlearned mind consents to the false appearances of phenomena to exist in their own right. Emptiness is not non-existence of the mind. Emptiness is an existent quality of the mind that can be perceived directly through practice. It is this mind that allows transformation. Emptiness, the nature of the mind, can combine with the undifferentiated nature of compassion. Monkey mind is a vehicle for ego entertainment not transformation.

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