Taijiquan

Name: Taijiquan | Through the Western Gate
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Through the Western Gate

Rick Barrett(Autor*in)

Blue Snake Books (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 7. Juni 2011

280 Seiten

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Intro
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration and Romanization
Introduction
A Hidden Barrier
Translation and Nomenclature
Passage through the Gate
William C. C. Chen
James Oschman
Ken Wilber
Chapter 1 - Entering the Zone
In the Zone
Knifing through the Zone
Better with Age
Waysun Liao Demonstrates Internal Power
What Is Taijiquan?
Chapter 2 - Gongfu
The Gongfu of Taijiquan
A Wordless Book
Chapter 3 - Insubstantial and Substantial
Stuff and Non-stuff
Relative Terms
Daoism and Taijiquan
Daoist Cosmology
Chapter 4 - The Western Gate
Science versus Scientism
Flatland
The Punch Line
Chapter 5 - Embracing Paradox
Nervous System Development
The Power of the Insubstantial
Getting Comfortable with Paradox
Chapter 6 - Seeing with Three Eyes
The Three Eyes
Injunctions
Three Strands of Valid Knowledge
Transrational Consciousness
Demonstration of the Transpersonal
Moving with the Way
Chapter 7 - Ask a Fish about Water
Discovering Air
Vitalism versus Mechanism
We Are Both Of and In It
Quantum Vacuum
Energy in the Human Body
Energy Healing
Not Always Present
The Copper Wall Project
Valerie Hunt's Research
Spectrum of Frequencies
The Egely Wheel
Chapter 8 - Direct Experience of Qi
Injunctions for Qi Recognition
The Power of Attention
Correct Language
Taiji Ball
Chapter 9 - Coherent Energy
What Is Energetic Coherence?
Coherence and Entropy
Life's Spectrum of Coherence
Psychophysiological Coherence
Chapter 10 - Testing Energetic Coherence
Taiji Training
Muscle Testing for Energetic Coherence
Taijiquan Forms
Chapter 11 - Accessing Energetic Coherence
Coherence: The Means, Not the Goal
Coherence Criteria
Taiji Coherence
Driving with the Hand Brake On
Rooting
Rooting the Hard Way
Rooting Results from Coherence
Stumbling Blocks
Chapter 12 - Force versus Power
Internal versus External
Keys to the Car
Return to Wholeness
Chapter 13 - Beyond Relaxation
How It's Done
Understanding Song
Chapter 14 - Tensegrity
What Is Tensegrity?
Tensegrity in Structure
Everything Is Vibration
Chapter 15 - The Living Matrix
Half-Second Delay
Liquid Crystals
Properties of the Living Matrix
Why the Index Finger?
Chapter 16 - The Living Matrix in Form and Practice
Erecting a Tent
Tensegrity in a Taijiquan Form
Standing Meditation and the Living Matrix
Coherence in Push Hands
Applications of Push Hands
Pitfalls
Chapter 17 - The Nine-Channeled Pearl
What Is the Nine-Channeled Pearl?
Energy Follows the Path of Least Resistance
Kinking the Hose
Raising the Spirit of Vitality
Chapter 18 - The Kua
Set the Knee
Release the Kua
Release and Energize
Song Kua in Practicing the Form
Chapter 19 - Now and Jin
The Monkey Trap
The Problem with Meditation
Presence
Chapter 20 - Turning the Light Around
The Body Is Not an Adversary
The Host and the Guest
The Path of The Secret of the Golden Flower
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author

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