johnwang wrote:A 100% fast form training is also boring.
johnwang wrote: I may be the last person on earth who doesn't care about "meditation". I didn't care when I was young. I also don't care when I'm older.
johnwang wrote:Bao wrote:Form practice with very, very slow and with even movement (pulling silk) is good for meditation, to empty and clear your mind.
I may be the last person on earth who doesn't care about "meditation". I didn't care when I was young. I also don't care when I'm older. My mom must drop my head on the ground when I was a baby.
Giles wrote:johnwang wrote:A 100% fast form training is also boring.
Boring for who?
Bao wrote:johnwang wrote: I may be the last person on earth who doesn't care about "meditation". I didn't care when I was young. I also don't care when I'm older.
...To be honest, it feels a bit strange to hear a person who is almost only interested in fighting not being interested in meditation.
Steve James wrote::) OK John, how fast can you do your form? Can you do it in under a minute to the same standard as you can do it in 10 minutes?
Steve James wrote:The way I was taught, the form is supposed to be a form of meditation "in motion" aopt sitting meditation.
D_Glenn wrote:Doing the slow form for an hour, without having to think about the movement or the choreography, because you have already memorized it, allows you to be in a state of Wuwei, ..
Trick wrote:D_Glenn wrote:Doing the slow form for an hour, without having to think about the movement or the choreography, because you have already memorized it, allows you to be in a state of Wuwei, ..
Ok, there probably are people that do the form like this, probably a lot of people.
But this is not TaijiQUAN, because it has absolutely no direct connection to the “quan”thing.
Slow taijiquan is not meditation, however it’s a good mindful(ness) practice because the mind must be at work all the time. When one has gotten the choreography right, then it’s time to step up to the important mind work, the ones that are relevant for taijiquan to be taijiQUAN, an hour of not doing this is an hour of nothing, not even wuwei
Wuwei does not come around from forced nothingness, but from action under some form of“pressure”.
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