The Ba Gua Enigma !

When you do Pa Kua Chang something really bizarre actually happens. Pa Kua, I should tell you, is that martial art wherein you walk circles endlessly. Circles where you find spirals within circles within loops.

To explain this really weird thing that happens in Pa Kua Chang, let me explain a couple of things first. Understand these things, and you will find that weird is normal in this universe, and normal is weird. Okey dokey?

The circle takes eight steps from beginning to end. This is about six feet in diameter, or one good leg sweep. And, of course, the end is the beginning, and the beginning is the end, and so on.

Classicists understand that as you walk the circle, and put the palms in various positions that the positions stand for various phenomena. Thunder palms, lightening palms, water palms, fire palms, and so on. In this analogy they have created an entire universe. This universe can occupy a student for a lifetime, but, really, won’t explain what is really happening.

To understand what is going on , when one creates this Pa Kua universe, you must understand that the body is a machine. Power goes up the legs and down the legs, like alternating current. One must remember, at this point, that power is energy, and energy is the capacity for work, and the capacity for work is how much you can lift–and you should probably get yourself a good dictionary and start separating these terms.

The energy of the body is generated by the tan tien. The tan tien is a point which is located a couple of inches below the navel. The tan tien builds energy which goes up and down the legs and keeps passing through the tan tien.

What happens is that the body becomes a capacitor, a storage device, and the energy can be stored for later use. But also, and most interesting, is that after walking the circle sufficient with the idea I’ve detailed here, you will experience actual lightening going up and down your legs. You will also, as you explore the potential of the palms in conjunction with the storing of the energy, experience a barber pole type energy swirl up and down your arms.

Pa Kua is not mystical, it is common sense physics, but it does take a sincere practitioner and a calm mind to experience what I have explained here. For the body to start acting as a capacitor one must tell the body to do so enough times and with enough sincerity, and this while walking the circle enough times. If one learns to believe that this universe is not a trap, but a journey, what I have told you here is not only possible, but even easy.

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