Episode 199 - "Understanding the Force"

In my previous posts on the Taiji principles, I discussed the concept of "Getting back to the Origin" and the Stages of "knowing oneself" and "knowing others".

These are the keys to decipher the meaning of "Understanding the Force".

In the "Know Your Own self Stage", you "understand the force" after you have started activating your sleeping parts. This is what we call the "tapping into the sacred portion". What we need to do next is to train up the other sleeping parts of the body. This "training" required then is different from "normal" training. Once you have activated a sleeping part, you can intensify the activation of the other parts while you are walking, stopping, sitting, or lying down. That means you can use your mind to call up the other sleeping portions while you are engaging in normal daily activities.

In the "Know Others' Stage", the training is different, you should learn how to adhere to and get contact with the other's body. You learn how to make use of the force of the opponent and control him. That's where the push hand training come into the picture. You learn how to adapt and adjust to different movements of the opponent and respond with "reflex action".