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Recieved: 1999/03/26 16:16
Subject: Re: [K-list] Bodily Area On Which To Focus During Chakra Medita
From: Antoine
On 1999/03/26 16:16, Antoine posted thus to the K-list:
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:26:58 -0000
From: Thomas Bradley <ThomasBATnospamaromascan.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [K-list] Bodily Area On Which To Focus During Chakra
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Dear Antoine,
<< Thank you very much for your reply. You mentioned that
switching from one chakra / energy system to another gives you an
identity crisis. Do you have opinions on training in more than one
system, as opposed to switching from one to the other? >>
Thomas, i would say it's a question of balance, and it depends mostly on
how you like, or want, or are made to open to this world.
You don't feed the same ingredients to a strong flower like a rose, or a
fragile and sensitive flower like an orchid. The most beautiful rose
usually comes from places where nights are cold and dry, but the sun hot
during the day. The most beautiful orchids comes from deep jungles,
where the humidity level and temperature is almost the same night and
day, and the sun filtered, for for the flower to drink only the higher
rays of light from the indirect sun.
What is fun with us human, is that our individual identity pattern
(flower type) may change with time in one lifetime. Sometimes we need to
survive and yet explore the stability, like exploring only one
discipline for a while (the stable ecosystem of the jungle to the
Orchid) and others times we need to explore more the pulsating variation
of switching from one system to the other.
To be honest, i cannot tell you which "path" is best to you, i have only
my personal experience to refer to. It's for you to find out what suits
you best at this point in your life. Maybe in you something already does
that, i leave you the pleasure of discovering that inner guide, if it's
not done already.
<< Do you feel that one form of chakra training is more natural than
the other, and can you tell me a bit more about your experiences with
training in Wing Chun with Chi Kung? >>
To me, no form of training is natural...
Spontaneity is natural to me, and the funny thing is that i have to
train my self to simply remember in all my being what it was and is to
be spontaneous in all moment. Some training forms are better than other
for some. But the fact that it's a better form of training of than
another, is only relative to the way i am stuck into a routine that i
identify myself with.
In this way, my experience with kung fu may interest you. Some
medication create a damping field, so that a flower sensitive to cosmic
vibrations, like the Orchid is, may still survive when exposed directly
to the hot sun (i.e. all the vibration of this wild society). The
martial arts part of kung fu, associated with the chi-kung part of it
(like in Mantak Chiak), those the same thing, in it's basic exercises,
as some medication. It helps you create a solid backbone and leafs to
your being (or all the colors of the rainbow mentioned by TG) so one can
resist more to the direct sun with all it's colors. The difference with
medication, is that kung fu, or any strict discipline of some kind, like
your five year plan in life exposed in an email, helps one to structure
himself or herself to become more open to a more spontaneous, natural,
living and perfect balance in all situations.
You are lucky in some way Thomas, most people start as a rose and pass
years and years to work to have the sensitivity of the Orchid. You
already have it, you most probably simply need to allow leafs to grows
in a balanced way, so fear may change into a so rich flow of life.
Enjoy spring,
Antoine
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