Postby Doc Stier on Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:51 pm

Strange wrote:
Doc Stier wrote:So exactly what is the point of all this? -shrug-

Doc, its about getting the basic meat and potatoes of the internal method ri
ght at the foundation. or one would be building something filmsy and the road si
gns along the way will not make sense. i just thought it was important to spell
it out. but it seems that i am making some feel that i am self righteous; but do
not understand that i have traveled the road and want to tell honest and dilige
nt practitioners the correct way.
normally, i am simple and agreeable, but on this i think diplomacy will clou
d the message. so, beggin your indulgence - zz must be practiced with visualisat
ion/imagination, if not it is just empty standing

Strange:
My question was in reference to the debate, not the content of anyone's opinion.
;)
Standing practices, whether Zhan Zhuang ( ??, lit. "standing like a post") or st
ationary standing in any form set posture, initiates a process of internal devel
opment which is perceived differently by different people according to their per
sonal preference in processing information and their personal level of experienc
e with the practices in question. Since perception is reality for most people, e
ach individual's perception of the practices is in fact their reality of same, w
hatever that may be at any given point in the process. As such, it is generally
a waste of time and effort to debate these issues, IMO, and even more fruitless
for anyone to insist that their personal paradigm is absolute for everyone. ::)
Internal work deals with intrinsic energy that isn't limited in its expression b
y such constraints. Some mental perceptions, physical experiences, and internal
skills will be common to most practitioners over time, and yet other perceptions
, experiences and skills may be quite rare to a very few individuals or even uni
que to a particular practitioner. 8-)
Conscious intention and direction of the internal process through mental visuali
zation certainly has merit and generally looks best to those who are primarily v
isual learners, while reading written practice instructions and repeating verbal
affirmations usually resonates better with those who are primarily auditory lea
rners, but merely standing and feeling the internal and external effects of the
practices is most often the only way to get a good grasp on the practices for ki
nesthetic learners.
There simply is no one way that looks, sounds, or feels best for everyone. -shru
g-
Doc