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caesar wrote:I'm still in very beginning of learning to be loose while doing the form...so my mindstate is often a bit tensed or frustrated.
As to the OT, the mind is still. I am thinking that is what you meant, but the title suggests something else.
Monsoon wrote:As to the OT, the mind is still. I am thinking that is what you meant, but the title suggests something else.
As I stated in the OP, unless you are claiming this to be your mind state, that I was asking what people actually experience as opposed to what they are expecting to experience.
Monsoon
It seems China was a great source of learning for you.
wpgtaiji wrote:
The reason you may be having trouble with this is...
Those in the field wouldnt waste time on anonymous forums!
The entire form is done in perfect harmony with yin and yang (which is our natural state), and your thoughts are free to be aware of what they want to be aware of
The reason you may be having trouble with this is...
I guess the clinicsl meaning of the word MAY (which is the word i used) is different.
The obsession on insignificant things i have experienced before.
Monsoon wrote:Yes, I am aware of the concept behind 'seating the spirit', but I have never seen it explained with an attempted link to physiological structures.
I don't wish to offend but you are anatomically incorrect. The cranial nerves can be viewed in several ways: for instance, 10 of them arise from the brainstem (2 don't); or 4 originate in the pons, 4 in the medulla, and 4 actually in the midbrain. Either way, in adults, all the CNs are situated in the tegmentum (part of the brainstem) which is at the base of the midbrain not sitting on top.
Also, an awful lot of people (not surprisingly considering the difficulty of this field of study) do not really understand how brain cells function, often resorting to very simplistic models: electricity, plasma streams and so on.
However, this should not detract from the practices we indulge in. We don't need to know how the brain works in order to make the practices effective, just as we don't need to know how a car works in order to drive one.
Getting a little off topic there! Good to discuss though.
BTW, in meditative practices, at least the ones I am familiar with, detachment from the world is not the goal.
Monsoon
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