Taiji – Celestial Art
化神为虚

Life Confirms 90%/10%

Most of a persons waking life is absorbed by their perceptions, conceptions and reactions to the outer world. Less than 10% is connected with inner perceptions.

When a person is in the half-sleep state, their outer awareness recedes to reveal a little more of the deep body sensations and the body's etheric energy field, but their abilty to act reduces dramatically.

When a person enters the dream state, their ability to act and their later recall of the astral world is very small.

When they enter deep sleep, their ability in the celestial world is certainly less than 1% of waking consciouness.

True Taiji training

will gradually increase the ability to perceive, think and act on each of these internal levels.

Relentlessly a persons centre of gravity will shift first to the world of the lower dantian (deep body sensations and etheric energy field), then later to the world of the middle dantian (deep emotional energies), then finally, with correct, sincere practice and long perserverance, the centre of gravity will establish itself within the celestial world of the upper dantian.

The words above are not merely imaginary – they are known to be true from my personal experience and confirmed by the personal experience of my teachers.

Higher Martial Art

Grandmaster Zheng Manqing (Cheng Man-Ching) said that his teacher Yang Chengfu had told him that in a time of emergency his deeper nature would take over and all that he had trained in a truly deep sense would appear and work much more effectively than it did when practising. Grandmaster Zheng doubted that until the first time he was really attacked and his teachers's words proved correct.

Zheng Manqing later told his students, "You cannot see my real skill while we are training. It can only appear in a situation where it is truly needed." HigherMartialArt