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Prana Dynamics

By Huai Hsiang Wang

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Testimony by Boris

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Hello Howard,

I am not a great writer and often stuck with expressing emotions but here is a review of the seminars I had the chance of participating in.

I still remember one of the first seminars I attended: a 4-day course with increasingly difficult applications of joint locking and throws. After that, most seminars were predominantly on basics and principles which I experienced as more comfortable, being a total newcomer.

These are the feelings I went through…

  • The first day was overwhelming: trying to follow the instructions as best as possible with sometimes a little success.
  • The second day things settled a bit and it became a little easier and more manageable.
  • The third day was the most frustrating one because exhaustion is starting to kick in and less and less applications are working.
  • The fourth day you reach the point where you cannot do anything anymore and things get funny. At that point, the mind lets go and things change…

It is ok to be out of your mind

What I most appreciate in Howard as a teacher is that he does not keep any secrets. He is also very knowledgeable and approachable.

The seminars have a nice balance between practice and philosophy. It is also refreshing to see Howard’s point of view on training away from tradition.

And of course there is ‘the Howard effect’ that helps you proceed whenever stuck…

I hope to meet you again in the future to further explore the path. Thank you for your guidance.

Kind regards,
Boris

Light, the Consciousness in Animation

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Lao Tzu was one of the ancient Chinese sages. His conception of the coming of life, before the coming of us everything is just emptiness, big void. From the big void, there is something, just energy in emination. For any energy to emanate you need to have two polarities, yin and yang. So he called this primal energy Tai Chi; the art to make harmony. Here before your inception.

This primal energy functions like a light in the universe and whatsoever psychosomatic object has been touched by this light, this light will infuse in. With the infusion of this primal energy into this psychosomatic apparatus, boom, primal energy animation, and animation process begins. Once the animation process begins, the combination of the primal energy and sentience, your body sentience, it is called essence. Once this primal energy is infused in, because of the body sentience everything is sensible, you can feel, you can see, you can hear. Within the limit of your body sentience then this energy becomes the light from the essence. It then becomes the light. Then the body sentience is like the film in the movie projector. So this light then, boom, projects through with the coloring of your body sentience. So this is the light.

In the western context, what is light? Your conscious presence. Not yours. That is universal, this conscious presence, it is like electricity. You are just like an electric device. If I turn the switch on the show begins. So your nature, with the infusion of this primal energy in the body, together with the animation process is the light that is the conscious presence.

This is too philosophical?

No, this has nothing to do with philosophy. You are all here learning Chinese. Do you know the Chinese word for philosophy? There are only two parts. It says: shut up. Philosophy. And Lao Tze said: those who knows does not talk, those who talks does not know.

Why is that? If you lose your mind to your philosophical speculations, like a dreamer in a dream, you did not capture the essence of philosophy. Philosophy says: to know is one thing, to do with another. So you harmonize the knowing and doing into one, this is exactly what Kung Fu is about.

Once you become one with this philosophy, you shut up. You do not have to talk, you do not have to say a word. Why do you need to talk, need to communicate with someone? Language is the instrument for the mind to communicate with people. In this art it is not about how you can communicate with others, it is about flipping your mirror back into yourself and correspond to the light, through the labyrinth, the intimate relationship of your mind-body, and the fascia in you. So, as an individual, you harmonize yourself in oneness with the light, with this conscious presence. Energetically.

Once you sense it, you feel, you do not have to utter a word because all words can not describe this state in you. Why is it? Because in Chinese, the world is composed of two words. Literally from the beginning to the end of your life, this life, within a boundary. So what is the boundary? The limit of your sentience. For instance, I can only see objects this far. If this object is further than I can see, I cannot see it. There is an intangible limit to your body’s senses. I can hear sounds but if you are too far away from my hearing capacity I cannot hear you. It does not matter how hard you try to shout to me, I cannot hear you. You are beyond my boundary.

In life every moment, if you really understand this, every moment we live in our own ivory tower, within the boundary of the limit of the sentience. This is the world, the manifestation. And the manifestation is just your own reflection because in the movie projector, in the mysterious gateway in you, the mysterious aperture where the light and the body sentience start to project outwards, that is a mysterious gateway or aperture.

Your nature is the light. Whatsoever you can feel and sense and see is your body sentience in animation.

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Are we always limited by our body sentience?

Yes, as a person yes.

As a light, no.

Transcript

This post is a transcript from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z12wt9jlLTg
Unfortunately the sound quality is not good. Future video’s will have better sound.

Validation-Self Exploration, Key from Understanding to Seeing

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This dimension opens up. I felt very deep into it and on the way there I can feel that… At first, I called it philo dynamic because once I enter this dimension, all the questions I had to the art, I can see the answers next to the question from inside of myself.

Once I see the answer; no more questions. No more questions, one more bubbles up, one more bubbles up. It is like a philosophy dynamics in me. That is the first stage and later, the fewer and fewer the questions, the more I see. The more I see the culture of universality from the inside of myself because I reintegrated the connection of the mind-body energy to the astro energy and I settle in.

That is why I can explain to you things that you cannot find from any of the classics or any other books. But if you really listen to me from your heart and if you really practice and explore and validate my words in you, you will sense it yourself. You sense it yourself. And this is the process of what they call self-awakening.

It is self-awakening because Rome is not built in a day. It is not like this, with a click, with a touch of epiphany you are awake. No, no, no, that is the first step.

One layer is one layer of ignorance itself. Another layer that ignores itself. Like the peeling of the onion skin. And the more you can let go, open up and let it go. By letting go you open up from inside out until there is no more skin for you to let go of. Okay, you are there.

This is exactly the same for the what one of the bad range of what you call the nathi nithia path, Not this, not that. Not this, not that.

But it is not for your mind to say Not this, not that. That is ego. That is using your mind to rationalize it and to intellectualize it. You are still bound by the mind. You are still in the mind. So that is why you can get nowhere. Because in that mentality, whenever there is something wrong, it is always other people’s fault but mine.

So this is a mistake you know. That is why I keep on reminding you guys that on the path of this art, for martial arts or for spiritual orientation, whenever and wherever there something wrong, there is always something wrong in you.

You have to learn to diagnose yourself. Once you can diagnose yourself, this is wrong, this is tension, I am holding the tension, here I am trying and wanting too much… This is exactly what blocks me. Let go of it. Let go of the striving. Let go of the wanting. let go of the effort. Let go of your mind. You are there.

So, do not take it literally or do not take it conceptually. Of course, we have to… For you to embark on this journey… This is why the Q&A is important because I am trying my best to paint for you, at least conceptually, the map the road map. But once you have the conceptual understanding in place then the next challenge is that you have to prepare your ears and really embark on the journey. Practice, validate, sense that for yourself. This is
the nature of the art.

Once you embark on the journey you are making self-discoveries each step along the way. That is why I said, the nature of practice is not for you to repeat the same pattern time and time again but every time you practice you make some new discoveries, you make some new sensations. Every time you practice you can get kissed by the angel or the touch of a piece of me: ah, this is what it means. Aha, this is how it feels.

This is the best way for you to go in the right direction. This is the essence of self-validation. So, that is why you do not take any of my words too seriously. Listen to me, remember and go back and practice and validate. Digest it in you.

That is why I say, when you truly understand what I am trying to convey or impart to you, you will not say you understand. Do not say: “Yes sir, I understand.” No, that is from the mind.

You say “I see because I feel, I sense it.”
You say “I see” from your heart not from your mind.
YES!

Transcript

This post is a transcript from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o4Fhf2hos8
Unfortunately, the sound quality is not good. Future videos will have better sound.


The nature of mind and intent

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Attached is my recent message to one of my Belgium students. Due to their ardent interest in the essence of the art, some students are active in messenger communicating with me in private.

Some of the messages might be of interest to others. I am taking the liberty to share the relevant message with those interested. This question has to do with the nature of mind and intent.

In peace!

Dear ****

It seems like you are quoting your thoughts instead of real question.

Thought is still of the mind. When in action, it is intellectualization. You can not intellectualize consciousness, for it is impossible to use the mind to transcend the mind.

The essence of Prana Dynamics is self-validation. Here the self is referring to consciousness. To bridge over from the identity with the mind to consciousness, relaxation is the key. The culmination of relaxation is equanimity, where your mind-body energy confluent into oneness, in stillness and silence.

In this state, wherever there is a touch, the mental focus is focalized on the opponent’s tension, be it in line sensation or the redundant force in their fascia. Where the mental focus is, energy automatically flows. The only thing one can do is not block or fragment the energy flow.

If you can manage to control the mental focus, then obviously you are not the mind. If you shift the observation from the mind to energy, in the beginning, it is similar to what you are experiencing in your current state: seeking answers to questions through intellectualization. This is an interim state I called “ Philosophy in Dynamics – Philodynamics”.

In this state, it is important to validate within your mind-body. Instead of an accumulation of knowledge, you have to become the observer, in oneness with the energy flow. As if when you see the clouds in the sky the cloud is exactly what blocks you from seeing the true azure color of the sky.

You will then become the seer, the observer, the knower, instead of hunting high and low within the boundary of your sentience and getting nowhere. In this state, it is an art of making sense. By making sense, I am referring to the capacity to put up the puzzles one by one and for you to see the pictures yourself. It is a process of demystification from your ignorance. If you keep on asking me questions and collect my answers as a shortcut, there is no validation in the process, and then you will fall victim to your imagination through the accumulated knowledge.

It will be best for you to keep on with the attitude and diligence, ask yourself the questions, then try to find the answer yourself. Whenever you are with me, ask me relevant questions for confirmation. This way you will evolve in the right direction.

It is like mountain climbing. If you are not there at the destination, all descriptions by the others about the scenery there will be nothing but your imagination. But once you are there, you will not need descriptions, for you can see it yourself.

When the mind is released, focus on the confluence of mind-body energy, once they confluent, then it will become functional through the command of intent. Once identified with the body sentience, it is the mind, free of the identification, it is consciousness in animation.

The intent is not of the mind but the conscious presence. For energy to communicate, the state of oneness/harmony is key, if there is no mind inside of you, and your mental focus is on the opponent, the two of you will become one, by not disturbing their fascia, their energy will confluent at the command of your intent, hence they have to move themselves, instead of you trying to move them.

In peace.