Originally Posted by
Scott R. Brown
The foolishness of your comments, demonstrates your own ignorance more than it reveals my own!
If one wishes to be an accomplished martial artist, all that is required is to train hard and train frequently over an extended period of time.
This is what occurred first, THEN the experts who did this thought carefully about what they accomplished and came up with words and concepts to express their experiences in order to share them with others.
The words used were chosen according the the culture and level of knowledge available at the time. To confine oneself to these ancient ways of viewing experience is foolish and unproductive. We do not do it when it comes to medicine, we do not do it when it comes to aeronautics, engineering, diet, etc.
That is not to say there is not some valuable information available from the old ways, but they are not the final word on anything.
The reason I avoid discussing these terms is not because I am not familiar with them, it is because I have matured past them, and do not allow the archaic terms and their modern misunderstanding and misapplication of them define my direct experience.
One of the common errors of some people is to confuse a theory or principle with its practical application. Just because something is old and mysterious sounding does not make it special, complicated or necessarily right.
If one wants to understand the processes that occurs within the generation of power, all they need do is train hard, frequently and for a long period of time, and then use their own intelligence to investigate what they experience directly for themselves.
The experiences of others may be helpful, but to conform ones own direct experience to a limited traditional definition is to rob oneself of independent understanding. If one does not possess direct and independent experience then one is still a novice and does not have much authority on the subject they pretend to be an expert on.
There is a difference between the person who reads a treatise detailing the taste of an orange and then tries to claim expertise on the taste and one who has actually tasted an orange. The one is merely an expert on what others have said upon the matter, there other is an expert on the matter.
Those who have spent hours, days, years training their qi are NOT significantly better fighters or athletes then those who have not. This is a demonstrable fact. In fact, I challenge anyone to find a significantly large group of elite athletes that participate in any form of qigong training and demonstrate that such training leads to superior performance.
If elite athletes could be demonstrated, factually, to have more developed qi preservation and utilization, it would reveal that qigong exercises are a waste of time, and that qi development is cultivated by hard, frequent training over a long period of time.
This is my argument! If you wish to avoid being a troll yourself, address my point and not your misrepresentation of my motivation!