Last night at class we talked a bit about walking the line between Hun & PO, the world of physical reality and the realm of the energetic reality. To experience true taiji one must experience this at least once while doing the forms. I say this because if you never experience the energetic realm then all one can hope for is multifaceted relaxation. On the other hand, if one gets totally absorbed into the realm of Po then the ego mind does not function and no lessons can be brought back.

Learning and understanding what these two realms are, what can be learned from them and how to train so that we can take advantage is high level taiji. But without knowing that any of this exists means that you are trapped in the grosser levels of training.

Later a student also asked me whether I ever experience synchronicity and or premonition. The answer I shared was “all the time”. The conversation then turned to how these experiences could in fact actually happen.
 
To be short, one must learn that neither time nor space are absolutes. One can intellectually learn this from a myriad of educational resources but that would not be enough. One has to experience this truth in order to know it. Once time and space has been experienced to be the constructs that they are, only then will one be able to grasp the fact that all information is available at all “times.” So “seeing the future” or getting a premonition no longer seems mystical, in fact one starts to learn that this skill should be harnessed and mastered in order to live ones life to the fullest.

Parting thought…

The forms, the breath, the meditation are all just strategies. Strategies you say?
Strategies for what..???

Peace
Rod