The Secret of Pa Kua
[I:http://mymartialartsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/AlCase24.jpg]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.
Let me explain a couple of things first, before I explain this really weird thing that happens in Pa Kua Chang. You will find that weird is normal in this universe, and normal is weird, if you understand these things. All righty?
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.
You must understand that the body is a machine when you create this Pa Kua universe. Power goes down the legs and up the legs, just like alternating current. You should know, and confirm it with a good dictionary, that power is energy, and energy is the capacity for work, and the capacity for work is how much 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 energy can be stored in the body, and the body becomes a storage device, a capacitor. After walking the circle enough times, holding the idea I’ve told you here, you will experience actual lightening going up and down your legs. Also, exploring the potential motions of the palms, you will experience a swirling barber pole energy swirl up and down your arms.
The point here is that Pa Kua is not mystical, but it does take a calm mind and a dedicated practitioner to experience what I have explained here. One must walk the circle enough times, and tell the body enough times and with enough sincerity, for the body to start acting as a capacitor. It is possible, however, and easier as one comes to believe that this universe is not a trap, but a transit.
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