Chapter I Tai Chi Achievement Method
Tai Ji Chuan is an advanced internal training method that integrates movement and static and develops people's spiritual potential.
According to the previous teacher, touts often sit on the straw futon at night to practice static exercises to refresh their minds. They also took pains to remind us to pay attention to the cultivation of internal qi. If the internal qi is insufficient, it will not be able to make the posture run, and it will not reach the "circle" of momentum. If the momentum is not complete, you will not be able to lift your spirits. At first, we didn't understand what it meant and our actions were sloppy, so the teacher often criticized me for waiting for nothing.
1984 In the spring, our other disciples invited our teacher to visit Xiangshan Park. That day, the teacher was very happy and we took photos together. I wanted to take some boxing photos for the teacher, so I asked the teacher to make a gesture of bright wings. The teacher deliberately didn't lift his arm and smiled and asked me to take a picture of a crane with bright wings and no figure. I said, this can only show the spirit, but can't see the moves. The teacher clapped her hands and said, "That's right. It is a bright-winged crane that lifts its arm, and it is also a bright-winged crane that does not lift its arm! " In a word, I suddenly realized that the spirit of Tai Chi's internal strength was informal. From this, I became interested in Tai Chi Kung Fu and began to explore and practice Tai Chi's internal skills tirelessly.
Don't think that Taiji Kung Fu is a Gong Zhuang-style practice before boxing, and the rigid practice of standing on a stake before boxing is contrary to the realm of natural performance. In order not to make mistakes, scholars should study and practice in the order suggested in the book. First of all, after you know and master the internal skills, you won't feel bored.
Practice being empty. After a period of boxing, we can distinguish what is a move and what is an internal skill, and then we can reflect the internal skill in a targeted way. Skillful use of internal skills, which can naturally appear when used, is the best time to practice Taiji Kung Fu. Through the practice of Taiji Kung Fu, the spirit is nourished and gradually enriched, and then the natural balance of Yin and Yang is achieved, and the perfect place is achieved.
In short, Tai Chi Kung Fu can only be practiced if it is familiar and knowledgeable.
Tai Ji Chuan is composed of three parts: practicing spirit, practicing spirit and communicating thoughts. The first part is the procedure of spiritual cultivation, the second part is the procedure of qi cultivation, and the third part is the procedure of mental cultivation. The achievement method is divided into three parts, but they are inextricably linked. After studying Tai Chi Kung Fu for a long time, you can spontaneously reflect on and grasp the opportunity to do it, and appreciate the existence of the mystery and the well-informed changes when it appears.
Chapter II Taiji Gongode Formula and Practice Method
Section 1 Practice magic methods
The connotation of art is the spirit of God, and the two are closely related and inseparable in terms of fully mobilizing and exerting the functions contained in the human body. Among them, God is in the first place, dominating all the movements and changes of the whole body, and its movement mode is hidden and alternating, with endless changes. Its function is not revealed in the logo, but applied in the unconventional situation, which is smart and lively. It is the metaphor of the so-called "the dragon sees the head but doesn't see the tail".
God's inner strength is that after he deeply understands the principle and freely and naturally grasps the law of unity of opposites in boxing, he will understand that moves are limited and empty shelves are useless. However, the internal skills described below are not limited to any form, and can be accompanied by the joint practice of moves, quietly excavated in the invisible spiritual flow, and accumulated internal strength and efficacy.
(A) Practice the formula of divine songs
The heart makes the body move from the heart, and the body relaxes.
Chaos begins to calm the mind and calm the mind.
The sky fell, the lights went off, and my heart became silent.
An empty stomach is full of self-satisfaction, angry and backlit.
Bright and dry eyes, mysterious timing.
(2) Cultivation methods
1 at the beginning, there was silence inside and outside the whole body, and there was a feeling of not knowing where I was, and there was no discomfort; This is called "nothing I don't do".
Silence to the extreme, the mind quietly, the spirit does it one brace up. Under the guidance of God, complete the whole process of chest opening, elbow extension, waist stuffing and wrist bulging in an instant.
3 The internal qi leisurely descends to the perineum (perineum in a narrow sense, that is, the perineum referred to by Taiji, refers to the soft tissue structure between the root of male scrotum and anus, and between female vaginal orifice and anus. ) turn to life, make your hands in a virtual state and start running. The operation of the body depends on the promotion and drive of spiritual power. Obeying the instructions of the cross center (the cross center is the center of the human body) can realize the natural operation without the feeling of limbs. This is called "the heart makes the body follow the heart." This heart does not refer to the heart that supplies blood to organs, but has an internal meaning, which comes from the heart (center) and the cross center of the cross chest.
Key points: it is easy to fall into silence and enter the state after having a certain boxing foundation; Only by mastering the boxing frame skillfully can we appreciate the subtle changes in practicing Tai Ji Chuan's spirit.
Obey your heart with both hands and run upward. When the internal force is relaxed to a little tipsy, the operation of both hands will be suspended on the Shu Tai. This is where the song formula "The body stops in a relaxed shape" falls. Entering the chaotic world of silence is "entering silence".
The chaotic scene here means that when the world is not open, the center of the cross is like a mystery; Then the "certainty" in the mind gradually presents the scene of yin and yang gradually separating and heaven and earth opening up. The heart will be very calm and calm, and the heart will stop in a static state. This is the artistic conception of "when chaos begins, the mind is calm".
Due to the dynamic stop of meaning and form, it turns into static state, air hugs and rises, forming a natural suspended ceiling, and then forming a halo around the top of the head, and the gas of the universe naturally enters the top of the halo, forming a blend of Yin and Yang. At the same time, both hands are driven into the exchange with air. This is the embodiment of the artistic conception of "the sky is falling and the head is light".
6 the cross on the chest is silent, and when the yin is quiet to the extreme, it will turn into the shape of yang, and then start running again, which is not only the embodiment of yin and yang as the root, but also urges the hands to stretch forward. This is where the "silent heart" landed.
7 Obey your heart with both hands and move forward. When you feel relaxed and comfortable, your hands will stop at a loss. Then, my heart naturally became "quiet", my spirit reunited and rose, my eyes lit up and I looked forward; A moment later, a fantastic air mass rushed into the bosom, entered the abdomen on its own, and reached the kidneys, making the three levels behind it naturally vertical. At the same time, the back exudes a feeling like the Buddha's back light, forming a blend of yin and yang between the chest, abdomen and back, and the whole body is furious. This is the landing place of "smug on an empty stomach, and the back light is born".
With the change of mind, turn your hands outward to palms up and slowly close to your shoulders. This process includes three links: the beginning, operation and end of the spirit.
9 put your hands together in front of your shoulders and terminate, then turn inward and enter the transition.
Key points: transformation plays an important role in connecting front and rear postures and connecting momentum. Transformation has two ends, one end is connected with the starting point of the next formula, boxing consciousness is connected with the starting point of the previous formula, boxing sinks at the end point of the next formula, and then germinates again at the starting point of the next formula. The interaction and transformation of Yin and Yang are both contained and permeated in the transformation. After the transformation, the internal gas was urged to run away again.
10 "must" is in his mind, and his spirit is lifted, making him hang on the top, his eyes bright, and his spirit is harmonious around his head, so he shows a radiant expression; At the same time, the internal qi is scattered, and my hands become very long, spinning sideways from the back of my head to the distant horizon in front of me.
This is the landing place of "two eyes are clear and dry, and the timing is mysterious".
Key points: the power of spiritual cultivation lies in the harmony between god and heart, and the harmony between heart and qi. When running, we should take God as the commander-in-chief, heart as the command, qi as the flag, and grasp the opportunity of yin-yang transformation, and the magic and mystery will naturally appear.
Practicing Qi and keeping in good health: When incredible and magical phenomena naturally appear in the process of spiritual cultivation, you must not study too much to avoid going astray. The ethereal and mysterious nature of Tai Ji Chuan's art is a major topic left by predecessors. The development and application of the potential magical function of human body will be perfectly integrated with boxing frame, which will help people to understand the meaning and theory of boxing more deeply.
Through the study of practicing mind, people can further distinguish the chaos of boxing on weekdays. The accumulated internal strength is false or true, and then we can know why and why through practice. For example, it is clear that the cross on the chest is the place where predecessors pay attention to practicing "Zhong Dantian", so when fixing the frame, all actions will be consciously made from the center and then returned to the center, so long practice will naturally determine the dominant position of boxing. The purpose of practicing dizziness is to naturally guide the true qi into the brain to nourish the upper abdomen; The purpose of practicing "life against light" is to inhale the true qi into Dantian to nourish Dantian (Dantian was originally a term used by Taoist Neidan School to cultivate spirit, and now it has been widely quoted by Qigong schools. The book Treasure of Oriental Medicine quoted the words of Shenxian Jing, which not only pointed out the position of Tian Chan, but also expounded the function of Tian Chan: "The brain is the marrow sea and returns to Tian Chan; The heart is crimson fire, in the abdomen; Three inches below the navel is the lower abdomen. Xia Dantian, the house of Tibetan essence; Every day, the house of Tibetan gas; Go to the Tibetan Temple in Dantian. " The ancients called Yuanqi three treasures and regarded Dantian as the storage place of Yuanqi, so they attached great importance to the significance of Dantian and regarded it as "the foundation of life".
As we know, intentional observance is a method and process for practitioners to concentrate their thoughts on a certain part or thing of themselves, help their consciousness to enter the static state of Qigong, and on this basis, give play to their conscious initiative, actively perceive and adjust their own functional activities, so as to achieve good results. Observing the abdomen intentionally is one of many ways for practitioners to concentrate their thoughts and stay in the abdomen. More precisely, this method belongs to the point method of observing one's own parts. But in practice, people's thoughts can't just stay at one acupoint, but only stay in a range centered on that acupoint. Therefore, it is more appropriate to understand Tian Chan as such an interval); If you understand what it means not to suck or not to suck, you will know that only when the two gases blend naturally can the real Yuan Qi be full of profit; Only by keeping the eyes consistent inside and outside can we protect and nourish the eyes.
The second quarter practice skills
First of all, the qi mentioned here is the true qi contained in the human body, which is related to the rise and fall, life and death, and has nothing to do with the breathing between the nose and mouth.
(A practice of singing rhymes
When my arm falls, my body is empty and I have nothing to do with it.
The healthy qi sinks, the spirit rises, and the internal qi on both sides rises.
Holding the dew tightly with both hands, Dan's ball appeared overhead.
Put your hands together, abdomen abdomen, keep your chest upright.
(2) Cultivation methods
65438+ should not care about breathing. Hands hanging on the ground beside my thighs, I always feel empty when I enter the mirror, as if I had lost myself. This is the landing point of "empty arms, no entry for me".
Integrity sinks into the ground, blends with the atmosphere of the earth, naturally germinates from the first step and rises up along the sides of the body, gently urging both hands to hold the inner air and lift it around, and the body has a relaxed and comfortable feeling of rising. This is the landing point of "internal qi starts from both sides with hands".
Raise your hands to shoulder height, and the center of the cross on your chest is "sure", as if a little fog drops into your palm, so you have a pious heart to accept it and blend with it. At this time, a light orange air mass naturally appeared overhead. Gather your hands in front of your head and hold the air mass. Without waiting for the hand, the air mass will fall into the abdomen and run through the whole body, showing a magnificent momentum. This is the embodiment of the artistic conception of "taking the dew with both hands, Dan's ball appears top volley, and Dan's hands are in the abdomen".
Haoran crossed the middle abdomen from the upper abdomen and fell to the ground next to his big toe from the lower abdomen. At the same time, Haoran's upright spirit keeps rising back to the body, and the body gradually feels full and comfortable. We should consciously keep a full sense of internal qi in our body and mind. This is the place of "honesty".
Practicing qi and keeping in good health: the healthy qi and internal qi mentioned in this article were called true qi and vitality by predecessors. So far, science has not proved the essence of this internal qi contained in the human body.
When exploring the mystery of practicing qi, we can't unilaterally pursue the sufficiency of internal qi, nor can we use consciousness to adjust the increase and decrease of Yin and Yang's qi and blood, so as not to go astray. The spirit cultivated at work is naturally balanced, which can't be captured by people's thinking. After a long time, people will realize the super-long power of internal qi in the application of internal force theory.
In terms of health preservation, moistening the body with qi can make the whole body blood smooth and not stagnant, thus promoting the normal circulation of blood and nourishing the whole body in all directions.
Section 3 Practice Methods
Intention plays an important role in boxing. Therefore, the predecessors have said that "this is all about meaning" and "emphasizing meaning over form", and they have insightful opinions of "intentionally or unintentionally" in the boxing theory, and also dialectically expounded the view that boxing meaning should not be biased.
Only by accurately and properly grasping the rules and scales of intentional boxing and performance kung fu can we break and transcend the conventional barriers dominated by physical movements and expand a realm of unrestrained performance kung fu.
The main point of practicing intention is to promote posture with intention to attract internal qi, but it is not intentional, which makes people look in a daze and play dumb. Passion should run slowly without demands, and the mood naturally tends to be peaceful and safe.
The origin of meaning is in the heart, from the center of the cross on the chest (that is, the abdomen). The power of practicing meaning is to consciously divide meaning and form into yin and yang, and then combine them into a ring, which is alternately transformed and connected. In such a simple action, it is easy to understand the action sequence, operation method and its derivation.
Interest and charm. However, once the order of meaning and form is reversed (that is, the form moves first), the function and efficacy of meaning immediately turn from obvious to gloomy, and scholars should take warning.
(1) practicing Italian songs.
My body is empty, my back is full of air, and my hands are moving along the mountain.
Hands stretch out on both sides of the word "mountain" with a vertical seam in the middle.
The cycle is not only yin and yang, but also the meaning of opening and closing is very clear.
(2) Practice methods
1 After practicing, I put my hands on the bridge, and then I felt tired when I had nothing in my heart. My back was full of gas, and naturally I unconsciously stuck to my back. It looks like the back of the Buddha statue enshrined in the temple shines all over my body, which gives birth to the opportunity of yin and yang transformation. Then the internal force rises, prompting hands to move from the crotch shed to the shoulders. This is the landing point of "the body is empty, the back is integrated with the internal qi".
2. The qi in front of the shoulder gathers in the center of the shoulder, then flows to the back and then divides into two sides, and then gathers around the shoulder to form one place. The flow of spirit is like sneaking along a horizontal herringbone, which is curved at the back. According to the trend of hands together, first rotate inward to your chest, and then embrace your shoulders forward. This is the landing point of "two hands walking along the herringbone"
When the hands are turned to the front of the shoulders, the gas in the collar is concentrated in the center of the shoulders, permeates behind them, and then rotates forward along the sides of the shoulders; Hands follow the flow of the spirit and rotate outward to the chest. This is the embodiment of "the two sides of the mountain character lead out and the middle is vertical".
Key points: spiritual guidance, leading hands to run around the body in circles, just like repeatedly tracing a mountain character. It is necessary to truly reflect the moment when the spirit meets on the shoulders, that is, when the hands are about to be separated to the sides of the chest; When the hand is in front of the shoulder, it is not just when the spirit is behind. Thus, we can understand the mystery of "Yin and Yang are the roots of each other" by seeing the big from the small. This is the place where "the cycle is not only yin and yang, but also the meaning of opening and closing".
Guide your hands to rotate inward with intention, and fall beside your hips with the decrease of integrity.
The "determination" in the mind is intended to guide the internal qi before the crotch to gather in the center of the two crotch and penetrate into the crotch, and then the two sides of the crotch meet in one place before the crotch, and the flow of the spirit seems to run along the zigzag; Hands move backward along both sides of hips according to the trend of spirit, and move outward from left to right.
5. The internal air in the collar gathers in the center of the crotch, and after penetrating into the crotch, it will surround the crotch forward along both sides; Hands and spirit to approach the two hips.
6 Haoran's healthy qi rises, leading his hands to rotate outward with his intention, and internal qi urges his hands to flow out to the front of his abdomen.
The internal qi in front of the waist has the meaning of "certain" in the heart, gathers in the center of the waist, penetrates behind the waist, and then whirls to the front of the waist along both sides of the waist. The flow of spirit is like running around a mountain; Turn your hands inward, from the front of the abdomen to the sides of the waist, and close together according to the trend.
The gas in the Italian collar gathers in the center of the waist, and then permeates the back of the waist. Put your hands on your waist according to your passion.
Collect works
1 The internal qi sinks, the bell hammer falls between the two calves, and the hands are rotated in front of the hips.
I want to reach out my hands, pick up the bell hanging between my legs and support it to the center of the cross on my chest, so that the internal qi will rise and make my hands rotate outward to the front of my hips, with my palms up. The back of the neck cone hangs down layer by layer like a lowered shutter, which means that it hangs down to the middle of the ankle, which means that the vertical money in the body stays between the body and the legs; Then turn your hands out and hang them to your hips. After receiving the job, I feel all enlightened and comfortable.
Training the Mind for Health: By learning the skills of training the mind, we will understand that the fusion of Tai Ji Chuan's art is not based on the memory of the brain, but on the "intimate" basis of the free operation of internal work. Therefore, practicing boxing pays great attention to "giving it to the heart" and "sending it to the heart".
Inner peace is often desirable. If you master how to use the cross on your chest, you can easily achieve peace of mind. Only after peace of mind, can you truly feel the artistic conception of peace, and you can achieve the balance of yin and yang.
In terms of health care, traveling freely in circles together can bring the whole body into a desolate and nihilistic artistic conception. Meaning is used in the heart, and its benefits are also in the heart. The heart can rest in indifferent and quiet actions. And after receiving the work for a long time, the whole body will constantly send out bursts of pleasure from the inside out, making people feel comfortable physically and mentally, thus receiving the effect of nourishing the heart and keeping fit.
Exercise to solve doubts: Tai Chi psychological method has profound connotation and far-reaching significance. It's hard to describe the true feelings of meritorious service. Especially after the work goes deep, its realm is even more difficult to demonstrate and describe. But this achievement is neither mysterious nor unattainable. As long as you follow the path of meditation and concentration, let nature take its course, run slowly, explore, grind, accumulate and deepen, you will taste the mystery and efficacy contained in the martial arts.