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An
amusing part of 'martial' exercise is that martial is not an exercise; it is overcoming your need to survive and your
misgivings about killing. There is no 'brotherhood' of 'warriors'... 'war does not make one great', it makes
dead. It is also not an exercise, it is a self-instruction about your inner-structure.
Also, each person views his own view as correct
and names it uniquely; akin to baseball being stickball being batball being the 'neigborhood' game, being an 'imported, foreign
pasttime with a wooden stick and leather sphere' Note, 'boxing' day in Hongkong, is the day after Christmas
when the gift wrappings are burned
The Chinese exercises names are many, virtually all of the so-called 'inner'-source
exercises follow the same teaching idea : unify-join, be 'one' with a greather 'uni-verse', or empty and join-return
to a proto-source 'verse' Way; by the method of zen-[non] mindedness. Find the multitude of
all in the one., the zero.
It would be simplistic to say that the idea-pattern
series is 0-1-2-3-4...6...8 and so on; or that practice is simply the rejoining of 8-to-6, to then 4, to the three-way
trinary union of 2, to get to unity, one, and then to 'nothing' zero.
Each of the so-called inner exercises developed
and named by the chinese can be shown to each play this numerological puzzle encoded in their names.
Partly, due to chinese reasoning, has to do with
geometric-symbolism and cosmic-numerology. The chinese 'universal' view was terrestrial-sky based: the earth was 'square'-4-sided
while heaven-sky above was circular-round, 'perfect'.
The inter-communion-support between them was explained as
a doubling to the 8-posts, a mathematical convenience. However, esoteric application of this theory, led to an
8-fold immulation of heavens' circle.
null-circle-symbol {-0,
+0} {2^0, 2^1, 3} [2^2] square-symbol
The 6x8 + He~Fa is a simple, but deep numerical
code, linking to cosmology and medicine of the times. the 6-diseases, required the 8-cures; the 6-dimensions of space
were connected to the 8-dimensions of time
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Liu He Ba Fa : 六合八法拳 the 6x8 encoding. The idea of groups of numbers is a simplistic method to view and
to codify-remember either cosmos, world, or a collective knowledge; convenient, but unrealistic.
Nothing, zero, yields unity,...one, which divided,
yielding two, ...divided again yields four, from which [in both the chinese mind and its ideopictograms], yields the numbers
six and eight; 6 and 8 are each just adaptations from and joined to the number 4. Reality may 'appear' this simple, but
often, it is not; even if a connection found. The mind of man is not the 'mind' of the universe.
To the Chinese, six collects: 6-adverse influences: ie. the environment, weather, and temperature; 6-internals of exercise
kinesthetics.
To the Chinese, eight collects: 8-beneficial remedies,
8-buddhist principles, 8-symbolic joining and separations: bagua.
Tai-Chi : 太極拳
the Extreme-limit, center-balanced 'post' of 'heaven+earth', the universe; the pole-position around which the seen photonic
parts of the 'uni'-verse rotate and spin. Being 'central' and supportive to everything, it represents highest-extreme-limit.
Tai-Chi is an epicenter and axis-center
: being in the middle, it is both origin and around which other methods must orbit, traverse, or spin.
Tai-Chi theory begins in ancient chinese thoughts about numerology and cosmology;
even though later corrupted to shaman's use, the simiple couplings of binary/triplex concepts was carried with/into the 8-patterns of
pa-kua.
The principles can be found in the exercises said of Xu Xuan-ping of the Tang
Dynasty; many others however go with the erroneous story that Chang San-feng in 1400's formulated them even though there exists
no bonefide records of his existence; there exists scholarly studies of this. It is known that taoist turned neo-confucian Zhu Xi [1130-1200] enpictured the Tai-Chi symbolically as the circulating
interwoven orbs, yin/ yang; this symmetry concept also goes back to earlier conceptualisations. At Hua Shan, a pior version
using the water and fire trigrams within a circle are used; they are engraved there in stone. This is
the first symbolic representation known thus far; the swimming fish icon of Zhu Xi came later.
[ Note: the application of the cosmological patterns to a martial exercise to be called Tai Chi-boxing
太極拳..was not of archaic usage, but modern; when the senior member of the Yang Family demonstrated it
for the Manchu [per their order] it was remarked that 'it seemed like the tai-chi 太極 motions'. Thus it is erroneous
to to discuss this naming backwards historically..and only somewhat as a principle.
Ba-Gua
: 八卦 - the multi-fold patterns turn around the center, divide and join ..in a
dual-triplet appearance; the planets and stars of the universe, rotate or spin; the ether of the cosmos itself, does
not. The illuminated 'stuff' we can see, is less than 4%. The relation of binary to trinary symbolic-numerology
is credited to the mythic Fu Xi; the interpretation of their 'meaning' is entangled in the unclear general elborations
of the Change Classic, the Yi-ching, which appeared later and is as much to ideas of neo-confucians as
to neo-taoist.
Ba-Gua is the pericenter, it orbits and/
or spins and/ or crosses back and forth around the center, the tai-chi; as an idiotic-idiom, it could be said that ba-gua
runs circles around the tai-chi competition. In truth, they are interlinked and is is more likely that where part of
a joined teaching [ suggested as a basic and an advanced set of wutang circuling exercises ].
As for names, it also should be said that the ba-gua name,
although current, was unlikely first used; a pre-name was xian-tian-wu-ji, before heaven, nothing, a more cosmological
term closely linked to circle-orbit-walking meditation; a later naming was yin-yang-pa-pan;
the ba-gua-palm name appears during its public teaching in Beijing [which was more of this knowledge combined with Lo Han
Shaolin boxing.]
Xing-YI, Xin-Yi, Yi- Xinyi-ba: 形意拳 心意拳 五行拳 意拳 心意把
Xingyi is Form-of-the-mind, xinyi
is Heart-center-feelings with Minds'-awareness, innermost-Intuitive-response; the first is form-originating, the later is
intuition-responding; the xinyi-principles are basic to the mind-intent or original-intent concept of yiquan, LHBF, waterstyle,
and wunyun- or qi-aikido. All of these titles/ names are joined and are similar, each view is deeper, none is whole correct.
Xinyi is direct but cursive,
advancing but corner-cutting; as an idiot-idiom, it could be said that xinyi runs 'corners' around its' competion. In reality,
it is central in form and principles to both the taiji and its' bagua-circling. Simple san-ti triangle stance walking
will intrinsically result a continual circle step..as long as the step is not right to left alternately. Thus, it is a trait
of naive teachers to say that xinyi- is linear/ zigzg, while only bagua- is circular. Bagua itself circles and exits the circle
or enters the circle as does xinyi-
Numerology : Numerics :
All chinese martial arts
play somewhat with numbers; if the core aspects can be embraced by just two (2) movements, why are 108-form movements preformed;
of if 66 plus 2 more form movements are needed, 66-for the core forms, and two (2) more for the beginning and ending, which
are usually not named, why the deception?
Note below that a reference
is usually made to x2 or to x8 in this numerology.
There is also the possible aspect of numerology...which can be confusing :
8 x 8 =64
8 x 8 + 2 = 66, 66 + 66 =132
[ For the Std. Nanjing-66 series and a doubling for left and right sidedness ]
8 x 11 =88 [ This was attempted by Wu Yi-hui also.]
8 x 12 =96 [ This is the Shandong-96 series. ]
8 x 13 =104 [ This is for the Henan-104 series ]
This pattern tends to link to the number selections, 8 being 'significant' to some
Chinese in many ways; it also does show up in science.
Note that a reference is usually made to either x2 or to x8 in this numerology.
The number 8 is = 2 x 4 or 2 x [2 + 2]; 2 being a prime number.
I sometimes consider an abstract approach to answer simple patterns
66-form 66 = 六十六
96-form = 九十六
Liuhebafa, 合 八法 拳 Jiang Jian-Ye 姜建业
104-form 104 = 一百零四
105 = 一百零五
106 = 一百零六
37 = 三十七
108 = 一百零八
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