Chi is a mysterious energy which constructs us, surrounds us, is us, and...what is it? To understand what Chi is we must define exactly who and what we are. To define who and what we are it is necessary to analyze our True Body.
The immediate body is the one you have which is typing the keyboard, playing the guitar, talking to friends and generally making use of the six senses. We are the eardrum and the eyeball and the throat and hair and toenails and everything in between that has organic sensation. We have fleshy existence and we journey about the planet in the pursuit of fleshy pleasures.
The body that we are concerned about, however, is the body that is built of Chi. This is the body which exists beyond the senses and into whatever distances we can perceive. Indeed, perceptions through the six senses have to be put aside if you wish to experience the larger body of yourself.
This brings us to the concept that if everything in the universe is our True Body, then what is this thing called Chi? Chi is that thing you have you call a body, it is the organic the organic thing you have presence in, and it is everything else, too. Call it a wavelength, or an concept, it doesn't really matter what you call it as long as we understand that it is.
Chi being understood, how do we control it? After all, we can move that finger or toe, why can't we wave that tree or move that cloud, if they really are part of our true body? Why can't we make it rain when we want, or stop that dangerous storm, or pull the plug on that stupid political party that keeps wasting our money/energy?
Well, for one thing, we can't make our True Body work because we are not used to making it work. We are used to sitting around and watching TV and being made stupid by pills and letting our senses be lulled, and this includes any sense of our True Body, into unconsciousness. We can undo this fact by practicing a discipline and by refusing to engage in any kind of programming, and by refusing any type of programming that does not allow honest exchange.
The discipline you practice must make you look at your immediate body, unbind your senses, excite your imagination, and open you up to the idea of your True Body. The discipline you practice must cause you to examine your immediate body until there is no mystery to it, and so that it is not merely an exercise in scientific examination. The discipline you practice must make full use of your senses until you step beyond your senses, outside of your immediate body, and experience your True Body.
If you are still unable to perspire the rain and wave the clouds at will, then you must understand that the True Body you are occupying is also being occupied by everybody else on the planet. Thus, to make your True Body move, you must make everybody else turn off their TVs and stop taking pills and let go of their unconscious and freezing hold on the True Body. You do this by helping them find a True Discipline that will take them beyond their immediate body and awaken them and take them.
Al Case has been studying the martial arts for over 40 years. You can visit him at MonsterMartial Arts.com, or at ChurchofMartialArts.com.
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