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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.

Yi versus imagination

Submitted by michael young on 2021-12-15 19:46
Salk Institute Blue Sky

I have recently began to notice the qualitative difference between the light yi associated with movement and what I normally associate with "thought". With yi, it always leads to movement or change in the body. I feel like it could be compared to wind. Yi is wind when it it fills a sail and the boat is moved along. Imagination is wind as well but it's immaterial to the boat because the sail is not up and the direction is wrong.

Authenticity

Submitted by michael young on 2021-08-31 19:53

Lately, I've been thinking about how compete UCB is. What I mean is that I can feel how there are aspects of my personality that are associated to my habitual posture. These have to released to allow my body to stretch in response to the foot couple. My whole feeling of my "self" is affected. I'm beginning to see that our collapsed structure is not the only thing that is has us mimicing Standing by doing a tall crouch. Often times, we smile and facially emote in a superficial way that is not connected to this deeper, primal, way of moving that is innate and not a cultural affectation.