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The Principle Concepts : 'Water' ~
Mt. Hua ~ Numerology
(1) LHPF is a school name encompasses a collective body of forms [ie.
LHPF+qigongs+animal-forms+swimming dragon forms addended and augmenting taught by Wu YiHui]
(2) Water washing/ boxing 'washing' and its' 'swimming' application
to boxing seems to be used both before and during the Sung Period; water boxing was used in 1930-1940's and
is still used in Shanghai throughout the 1900's to current century.
(3) The water-boxing name is later reaffixed to the LiuHeBaFa
exercise emerging into America and Europe by various teachers; ...one in principle only, another in name only. Health-exercise:
water/spirit-boxing, water-style, water-boxing, water-spirit, water-method-qi-gong, spirit-method-exercise, spirit-dream.
(4) The named teaching poem, LiuHeBaFa, the 6x8-verses,
is said to have been 'found' by Lee, TungFung; 'a student' of Chen Po; Sung, YuenTung is the given author of their elaboration
the 5-word-Secret-verse song; there are now about 5 commentaries now published in english.
(5) The name of a '66-form' exercise taught by Nanking teacher Wu YiHui;
The current lineage teacher Choi WaiLun and other teachers more often refer to their exercise as 'HuaYu'
in praise [acceptable], as a high-standard [symbolic], and as a origin-source [dubious] ...as HuaYu XinYi LiuHeBaFa:
this expression is a simple two parts: 'Mt Hua-inspired + 'central ideas' or 'intrinsic-intuition' + guided by the wisdom
of Liu-He with Ba-Fa poetic-verses.
(6) An existing exercise with core principles renamed: It is known
that Wu YiHui had extensive associated exercise knowledge that he could have reworked. An existing external exercise
known as the 8 tactics, Liu Hung's Eight-Link Palms, is a collective of 8 series of forms of about 5-8 movements
each. Their great form-principle similarity suggests this, as well as their numerical relation: ie. 8x8, 6x8.
(7) An obscure exercise, based on the 'water' flowing principles known to have been taught solely by the name
water-boxing which developed further through mingling with hun-yuan and with chan chong yi-quan, both of which were and continue
to be available in Shanghai. The water-boxing completely lacks the forms of the lo hung-8-strategies which are part of the
LHBF-system.
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The basis is a feeling-flow, a Central-Axis,
a dynamic Support-foundation..to a .'water' feeling-flow,
- Water is a metaphor for fluidic-flow and property-change: it
is known dynamic-Qi-'feel' linked to, but is led by, intrinsic-dynamics.
- A central vertical axis supports the fludic peripheral
body and directs this axis to retain optimal-vertical 'heaven-earth' alignment.
- A dynamic support foundation distributed through the 'true'-axial
boney structure
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This gives rise to symmetry, parity, polaity, structure-form,
instructuring, connection
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as a Ball: Human nature lends itself
to being: soft, hard, or empty, loose-string-spagetti, and pivotal-spot. A ball is a symbol-metaphor: both a form and dynamic
reference-standard.
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A ball can be soft, solid, and empty-shell.
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A ball can be reduced to a spot
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A spot can be stretched to a string.
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A string can be rotated into a ring
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A ring can be rotated into a sphere, ...spheres encircle,
companion and enjoin.
| Lifting, Embracing, Gathering |
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First : an Anchor...a Foundation
...a Central Axis : a Support
...a Symmetrical-Parity: a Balance
Second : a Trigger
... the hands, prehensile, extend and seek
... the dynamic center of balance, of the body, follows
the hands' lead
... touch precedes thought
Water-style vs LHPF
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So-called water-style is both a principle and a pre- and a post-
LHPF exercise with a formulated-series of formed-principles. The 'water'-like teaching is more important than the LHPF-forms
released in Nanking which have taken on aspects of harder/softer or rounder/linear to suit the various later-teachers; LHPF
is thus xingyi-, taichi-, and bagua-like in practice, possibility, and comparitively. This approach is from the view-point
of wu-gong.
The waterstyle approach is a flowing-feel
without an attempt to borrow from or to compare the evolving-forms to be other than what they are. The concept that it is
a qi-gong is not even correct either. It is more of a shen-gong: a spirit-exercise of which the qi is an intrinsic part.
...the simple principles are intrinsic-sourced; thus 'water' 'spirit'-feel
...the
simple motions are intrinsic-evolving; thus 'circle' and 'continuous'
...the intrinsic standards within you- 'child' of
heaven are trinary and dual: 0-2-4-6-8-...
...the intent itself is instrinsic, the primordial 'will' of what we are.
Thus, for each, you get all these names: water, circle-wun-, 6x8, and yi-; all are alike.
You can make it all as short
as one [zhan zhuang], as flowing as you like [waterstyle], with 300-500 methods [LHPF] or longer [WCYHG], as boom as [yiquan]
fa-jing or as untractable and untouchable as waterspirit.
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Waterspirit vs. Yi-Quan :
Water-style qigong-exercise is principled on the dyanmic-patterns
of flowing.
Yi-Quan strives to build upon instructing-structure to stay within limits of stable
and flexible, it uses standing, stepping, and integrity testing in progression
to
then flowing: in unison with self, with another, with surroundings.
The Water-style relies on intrinsic-resonance, rather than the induced resonance/
cycles of idea-forms. The HunYuan and Waving-hands principles are closely allied but start from inducing thru ideation
before getting to flowing with the ongoing intrinsic patterns.
this is only part of the standing zhan zhuang foundation
exercises.
If the motions continue with the same feelings as
zhan zhuang, but as very slow, flowing, gentle movements of whole body unity, they become like taijiquan but without the complexity.
There are two diversions on this free-of-style practice:
From and taught by Yao Cheng Guang, President of Beijing ZongXun WuGuan, Beijing
Institute of YiQuan. YiQuan with the feet evenly spaced, 'imagining' wind, wading slowly in a flowing river or a
express the espirit of health 'like floating clouds and flowing water'.
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