posted on Mar, 10 2008 @ 08:54 AM
The concept of "meditation has been around since recorded history, most recent (human history) goes back approximately 5 thousand years although I
feel the earth and life on the earth is far older. Anyhow the oldest traces of "meditation" go back to the Vedic Culture of India. Meditation is an
active dicipline of gaining self control and developing greater self control of one's mind and colusion with ones body. Many learn self control and
focus in other ways ,, and usually is associated with some sort of modern surivial,, concentrating to remember numbers, directions.
Meditation in the since of Martial Arts is being in-tune with your body and its movement,,in Thai Chi the beginner meditates and and focuses their
body movement and intent, which you can see visually. Masters and Grandmasters in different disciplines generate much greated "chi without visual
movement, as their bodies and minds are trained and disciplined to the point where "intent" is manifested without any obvious physical movement. For
instance my master could very simply break a person's forearm with an index finger with little or no movement.
More important is that through meditation you one can enhance your personal health, relieve stress, gain insight into the world around you.
Developing Chi in excerciese (Chi Kung) and different forms of meditation (I do standing meditation) can lead to skills and abilities that have been
attributed to "Chi" masters since the Vedic times (India) and spread into China and the rest of the Asian contienent.
There isnt much more you can do to explain to the un-initiated, those of us who have experienced or practice meditation and Thai Chi Wyan and other
mediative practices can only share its reality and effect in our (my life) like Twinkies,, you are free to partake or pass. It does make a difference
to me if you do or dont. The people who practice these techinques I believe enhance the Karma mental state for the rest of not only mankind but all of
nature's inhabitants.
Either way I wish you well, if you leave in NYC I would you could use all the peace of mind you could come across but thats an assumption on my
part,