Do enough Pa Kua Chang and something really weird happens. Pa Kua, as many people know, is that martial art where you walk in a circle endlessly. Circles where you find loops within spirals within circles.
To explain this really weird thing that happens in Pa Kua Chang, let me explain a couple of things first. Understand these things, and you will find that weird is normal in this universe, and normal is weird. Okey dokey?
There are eight steps from the beginning to the end in the Pa Kua circle. This is a good sweep with one leg, or about six feet in diameter. And, of course, the beginning of the circle is the end, and the end of the circle is the beginning.
Classicists claim that as you walk the circle, and put the palms in various positions that the positions stand for various phenomena. Thunder palms, lightening palms, water palms, fire palms, and so on. In this analogy they have created an entire universe. This universe can occupy a student for a lifetime, but, really, won’t explain what is really happening.
You must understand that the body is a machine when you create this Pa Kua universe. Power goes down the legs and up the legs, just like alternating current. You should know, and confirm it with a good dictionary, that power is energy, and energy is the capacity for work, and the capacity for work is how much you can lift.
The tan tien creates the energy of the body. The tan tien is a located a couple of inches below the navel. The tan tien creates energy which goes down and up and the legs and back into the tan tien.
What happens is that the body becomes a capacitor, a storage device, and the energy can be stored for later use. But also, and most interesting, is that after walking the circle sufficient with the idea I’ve detailed here, you will experience actual lightening going up and down your legs. You will also, as you explore the potential of the palms in conjunction with the storing of the energy, experience a barber pole type energy swirl up and down your arms.
Pa Kua is not mystical, it is common sense physics, but it does take a dedicated practitioner and a calm mind to experience what I have explained here. For the body to start acting as a capacitor one must tell the body to do so enough times and with enough sincerity, and this while walking the circle enough times. If one learns to believe that this universe is not a trap, but a journey, what I have told you here is not only possible, but even easy.
