I would like to consider vastness further. A bit of this discourse will be a reflection on a couple of quotes out of Colin Wilson’s book The Mind Parasites. If you enjoy science fiction with a fair splash of H. P. Lovecraft thrown in, then you should definitely read it. It is well worth your time. Another note I should mention. I had a bunch of notes I wanted to include in this post, but I can’t seem to find my journal. I am afraid that the Blue People have stolen it. What? You don’t know about them? I suggest you watch The Twilight Zone episode “A Matter of Minutes”, which aired January 31, 1986. Anyway, I think this post would have been a bit richer had they not misplaced my journal, but, there you are. I shall carry on without it.
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In my years of practice with martial arts, one of the fundamental aspects, for me, has been my practice of qigong. This is fundamentally a form of moving (usually, though at times it is standing only) meditation designed to calm the mind, strengthen the body, and help the practitioner learn the concept of the mind directs the qi and the qi directs the body. One of the most basic forms of this is called “Standing like a Tree”. The practitioner stands in a rooted (feet shoulder width apart, back straight, top of the head rising) posture with their arms out in front of them roughly at the level of their shoulder as if they were holding a large beach ball. This posture is designed to help the practitioner achieve a state known as wuji. Wuji is a compound word comprised of wu “without; no; not have; there is not; nothing, nothingness” and ji “ridgepole; roof ridge; highest/utmost point; extreme; Earth’s pole; reach the end; attain; exhaust” A translation of this in terms of qigong can be “that which has no pole” or “ultimate nothingness”. |
Lasciel AnnwynnI am one of those. Yes, that kind. I poke around in the corners and lesser explored paths of life looking for it's mysteries. There is so much magic in the world when you open your perception to it. Look with eyes of wonder. Archives
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