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UCB as a cultivation path

Submitted by michael young on 2022-03-04 15:06

I have recently had an evolution in my view/thinking on The Mental Models. My previous approach was to try to approximate the feeling by moving or stretching. I would stretch my foot and along my ankle, knees, and pelvis in a way that would produce the sensations called for. I'm not saying this is not  good practice. But, it is not working the Mental Models. It is body work. It will not lead to the transformation Sifu is pointing toward. It will only lead to a limited physcal skill that can't carry us forward to emptiness or the ability to "just move". The Mental Models are MENTAL!

Disoriented

Submitted by michael young on 2022-02-24 19:57

On my journey of undoing I have noticed that at times my upper torso actually feels like it is detatched form my lower torso. It's like two building blocks that are not just separate blocks but they aren't even stacked over one another. They are significantly offset from one another. When this feeling is clear enough I can "better stack" them and my body feels comfortable. I know that this is not the mental model we are looking for. It's just an observation. Feeling my body with this kind of clarity ibecome acutely aware of this kind of intense sense of physiological disorientation.

Yi - Mental Expectation

Submitted by michael young on 2022-02-15 18:48

One of the best, and most frustrating, things that I have been realizing is that I have to STOP DOING this stuff to approximate the models. It's also that most liberating things. This is not some amazing insight that I have had. This is simply the teaching as given by sifu. But, I am hard headed and overly ambitiousto try to produce some effect. I thought that was the thing because other systems use that approach. This is the very thing that sifu is pointing at that makes any system with that approach are "dead ends". Not that they don't produce skills.