Thanks Sifu, thanks Andrew Siheng.
We have just done the Xingyiquan course, and Sifu gave us many chances to ask questions, and plenty of warning to have our questions ready, yet I have only just now thought of one which seems linked to this. I have heard or read from other Xingyiquan sources, interviews with other Masters etc that Xingyiquan means mind-intention boxing, mind-body boxing, or something like that but what it actually means is that the mind can become so powerful that when it pictures or imagines events or things happening, those events can be made to materialize.
I've been told that first of all this means in fighting, ie the Xingyiquan master imagines himself going through his opponent, imagines the opponent being felled easily and so forth, but that later on this ability can be used in everyday life, to conjure up job opportunities and so forth.
I would have liked to ask Sifu about that on Xingyiquan and whether we have an equivalent saying and phenomenon in the Shaolin arts, but I think the answer is probably succinctly contained within this answer to Question 5.
So thanks again.
“Mind thinks, events materialize” is the greatest lessons I have had from my sifu, Sifu Ho Fatt Nam.
I've been told that first of all this means in fighting, ie the Xingyiquan master imagines himself going through his opponent, imagines the opponent being felled easily and so forth, but that later on this ability can be used in everyday life, to conjure up job opportunities and so forth.
I would have liked to ask Sifu about that on Xingyiquan and whether we have an equivalent saying and phenomenon in the Shaolin arts, but I think the answer is probably succinctly contained within this answer to Question 5.
So thanks again.
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