How I think taiji emptiness is

How I think taiji emptiness is

Taiji emptiness is one of the top level destinations every practitioner looks for it. And spent whole life practice try to get it. Taiji emptiness also is the top topic most good instructor or master will try to teach their student on it. And it is really a hard topic people can really explain well. I have the same experience during my learning experience.

As most good book said. There is only way is to look for good master, you can touch on their body really feel it; there is no way to understand in human langrage. I totally agree.

But now I start teaching, I have the same feeling like my master, we don’t want to wasting our student time. We wish we can give all we understanding to our student, as soon as possible, so taiji this valuable treasure of Chinese can be carry on generation by generation through all human life without lose of it. Like all my master did to me, they are never hiding anything they know, try to get me understand, they spent a lot of energy and time try to find out the way which fit me and match my availability to understanding.

Combine all my master’s teaching. I would like shoot out my understanding for every one to think about. And hope it help

From my grand master, who is water style taiji creator: master wang, zhuanghong.’s book shangshanruoshui. The book keeps talking about sinking and flowing. Talk about taiji 13 concept. Talk about relax, emptiness round full illness. From my water taiji master Lin, qiming, and my yiquan master Zhou, jindong keep adjust to me and keep telling me do not add any mind to fight, just try to feel what is the mind with no mind: what is empty but feel something still in it, it not absolutely empty with empty., it is not relaxed relax,

It is so hard to understand what it is really means, but when they adjust my poster, and feed me on, I can not feel I am using any force to move opponent balance as soon as they put my body position and my mind in the right position. How amazing it is and it really raises my interest. Combined my other master friend such as master Zhao shizhen, yiquan master and acupuncture doctor… I feel like I am putting together the parcels. about emptiness.

There are a lot of practice confusion. I spent many years try to learn how to stick together with opponent. To be full control without thinking control And also try hard to learn how to shot opponent out without using force. Songs like impossible. And my masters also keep telling me: I need believe and trust myself. For many year masters feeding me suddenly I tasted. And I realize I have to put all I learn together in the same time and unique. And once I have this I really don’t feel I am using power, because I don’t feel my bone, my muscle, my power strength. It don’t means its something out of physic, or natural law, it actually exactly follow the physics and natural law, just because my body and my mind combined together just as a perfect air balloon, I mean it is internally and externally combined as a perfectly air balloon not only externally. If I use my body my muscle only externally to be a ball, it will be a solid ball, and it will be rigid without any bounce and flexibility. But once it combined air balloon, it free to turning and free to bounce and all my bone joint so flexible and always move together just as air balloon, on point receipt a pressure, everywhere have reflected bounce pressure with the same amount. And the air balloon feeling also make me understand the air balloon have empty inside. All force tension is in the surface of the air balloon. The center of the balloon has no direction and no pressure but air if full filled. And this is one of the explanations of emptiness.

On the other hand: during I play pushing hand .I keep watching my masters and my kongfu uncle. They didn’t move a lot on their body, but every time once I touch them I will feel they are behind me about 10 feet away. So as soon I touch them I can not stand straight. I feel both of my feet off the ground. Then after they feed me I realize, they are moving their body in all direction same amount and same speed. And same time. That’s how they become an air balloon, and also they keep pumping the air into this balloon. Since I understand a little this, then I realize. How they create an emptiness by scenting same pressure at the out side skin of the air balloon, so any direct power pressure on them, their body absorb the pressure from one point, but same time they reflect same pressure out to the skin of air balloon on all direction and all point. Since this air balloon is the combination from body and mind, so this air balloon can be any size five feet or ten feed in diameter what ever depends on their level. That is why I feel being wrapped a rounded and the center behind me. But I can not feel any force from them. Which because the force on the surface of the ball is hard to feel it, doesn’t mean it is no force? And also since the force is all direction, the force towards ground being confused by force bounce up from ground. The force go against me is being confused by force pulling away from me….etc. in another words, from any touching point. The force pressure has all the same force

The third point is how to put mind reference point for setting this air balloon? To create emptiness pressure I think about there is a very common physics test when I was in middle school. Teacher use a cup, fill up water in the pot before pull out the pot he turn the cup upside down, and then keep pull the glass cup out the water, then we see the water stay in the glass without fall off. Why, because the water weight drop but the bottom of the cup will have a air space even it so small, the small air space created a same amount of sucking pressure to suck up all water , even we can not see the air space, but the emptiness is there. And that is exactly the emptiness full of the strong sucking up pressure. So it is the full filled emptiness.

I showed to my student today. About this I don’t think how to deal with the point my student push me on my arm, I put my mind think about from the pushing point, my skin in the front follow my finger pointing forward, my skin at the back of the pushing point follow my back extending backward, so the pushing point create an emptiness with full of pressure in all direction and same amount of in coming force and push back from back of my student back toward back as well. Since he only concentrates on pushing point, he will be late to feel the reflecting force shows up at his back to unbalance his balance standing.

Now we are getting into the main point. The emptiness is the point have same amount of force explode toward out in all direction, in the same time evenly. The emptiness being showed by out side pressure evenly, but nothing at the point. Which just like my grand master wang zhuanghong said, the center of the circle being identified by the premier of the circle. TThe premier of the circle being identified by the center of the circle. It is confusion but it is true.

There is a big mistake being made in a lot of good taiji practitioners, and teachers. They try to practice in the right direction without using any hard force. But actually they are turn into claps ever where on their body and their mind. Every time they feel the out side force coming in, they try to deal with it with running away from the point. Which means they are body moving away from this force point, also their mind moving away from this forcing point too? Which is so called double light, which is the same mistake as double weighted. Because the mind will stuck on the point the force at. So if the force from people has some knowledge of any kind of kongfu. People can chase in. so the running away become useless.

My master teaches me the emptiness is from this pressure reference point, extend mind at the premier of the air balloon not putting any intension at the force point. Which so called no mind, but mind every where at the surface of the balloon in all direction in same amount and same speed expansion. Not running away also not goes against, but the balloon reflection force bonking back all over to the force creator. What a beauty! What a concept of taiji.

So in conclusion, emptiness is a main point should understand to be able to practice taiji in the right way. Otherwise, either using too much force to do push hand, or relax to be claps even long time practice can not deal with any people using force to it. Understand emptiness, is the way to understand taiji jin, which is yin plus yang as a full round circle air balloon. No force is not feel force not absolute no force to make it work. All force is work follow the physics and natural law, nothing out of it. It just being confused from human sensitivity and reaction of balance.

Hope my point bring up all taiji practitioner to think and search on it.