Dear all,
I am starting this thread to talk about my experiences learning, or rather not learning, Shaolin Wahnam Chi Kung from a book. I made a reference to that in a reply to Jeffrey, here
I mentioned that I made a mistake learning from Sifu's book. This needs a bit of clarification.
I started learning from Sifu's book a few months prior to my first course. I could learn from the book in the sense that I learned the technique of Lifting the Sky correctly. I could not, however, generate an energy flow. The main reason for this, of course, is that I did not have the skill of entering a chi kung state of mind. I did not end up doing it wrong, like Jeffrey, as I did not add anything to the instructions. I just ended up doing a technique.
Maybe I could have generated a bit of energy flow after a year or more if I had not taken any courses with Sifu. But that is a big maybe and I might well have given up long before as nothing much happened.
"There really is no substitute for finding a great Master if you really want to learn the Art." That was my first thought after my first hour at Sifu's course. Comparing the two, learning from a book and learning from a Grandmaster, I can say that what I did before really had as much to do with Chi Kung as playing football. In order to do Chi Kung, you have to generate an energy flow and that I could not do. In that sense I might as well have been playing football.
There was, however, something very good that came of it: the wow-effect. Because I really believed until then that I had been doing Chi Kung. To then experience the true wonders of real Chi Kung, that was simply amazing.
If you have similar experiences, or completely different ones, then I invite you to share them here.
Best wishes,
Roeland Dijkema
I am starting this thread to talk about my experiences learning, or rather not learning, Shaolin Wahnam Chi Kung from a book. I made a reference to that in a reply to Jeffrey, here
I mentioned that I made a mistake learning from Sifu's book. This needs a bit of clarification.
I started learning from Sifu's book a few months prior to my first course. I could learn from the book in the sense that I learned the technique of Lifting the Sky correctly. I could not, however, generate an energy flow. The main reason for this, of course, is that I did not have the skill of entering a chi kung state of mind. I did not end up doing it wrong, like Jeffrey, as I did not add anything to the instructions. I just ended up doing a technique.
Maybe I could have generated a bit of energy flow after a year or more if I had not taken any courses with Sifu. But that is a big maybe and I might well have given up long before as nothing much happened.
"There really is no substitute for finding a great Master if you really want to learn the Art." That was my first thought after my first hour at Sifu's course. Comparing the two, learning from a book and learning from a Grandmaster, I can say that what I did before really had as much to do with Chi Kung as playing football. In order to do Chi Kung, you have to generate an energy flow and that I could not do. In that sense I might as well have been playing football.
There was, however, something very good that came of it: the wow-effect. Because I really believed until then that I had been doing Chi Kung. To then experience the true wonders of real Chi Kung, that was simply amazing.
If you have similar experiences, or completely different ones, then I invite you to share them here.
Best wishes,
Roeland Dijkema
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