Achieving Enlightenment Practicing Taiji, Xingyi or Bagua
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A new friend who bought a DVD over the weekend asked a very interesting question in an email.
Can you achieve enlightenment by practicing Hsing-I?
IĀ love the question. On one hand, I believe that if you expect to achieve enlightenment by practicing any art, you're placing tooĀ high of an expectation on that art.
On the other hand, I believe enlightenment can come at any time -- usually not when you're looking for it.
I've achieve what I thought was enlightenment by doing chi kung, particularly standing stake or the little cycle breathing exercises, sitting in a chair. A couple of times, when I did standing stake outdoors, I started by working on my posture and then I put part of my mind on my dan t'ien, while another part focused on breathing. I imagined energy coming in with the breath and collecting in the dan t'ien. From there, I imagined the energy circulating through the body.
After several minutes of this, I let my mind go and I let the sounds of the wind and the birds su...
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