TCGS

ACTIVATE-REBOUND-CATCH: Tangible Internal Super-Charge

 

 

PENG

Now that I've gone over all that Indoor Dragon stuff, you're ready for the pivot back to ZMQ Tai Chi. We're always triangulating between these two apparently "simple" arts that have unbelievable depth if you approach them quietly, with a little bit of sympathy and politesse. Which most people don't. Most people are like:

"C'mon GIMMIE that shit! Whatzzat?? I try it once and it DOESN'T WORK?? FUCK IT god dam fake asshole"

Now that is not what I call politesse. Sympathy, and some taste. But for those few who are into this, I can now direct you back to Zheng37 Tai Chi. No matter how incredibly powerful your Xingyi becomes, no matter how it shoots you to the moon - and it will with what I've already taught - but still Tai Chi done according to ZMQ method is the deepest of them all. 

So it's now very simple, now that you've finally begun to understand what I mean by my phrase sealing the ARC. I wrote a whole book called PENG but did not at that time tell it all. Now you can really get it though, with this piece of the puzzle.

So the best pose to start reintegrating to your Tai Chi is the appropriately named PENG pose, most especially RIGHT PENG. Please try to relax your upper body, arms like supple elephant trunks. Please. And beautiful lady's hands, which embody just enough 'mind' to lead and guide the internal energy without blocking it via excess tension. Those simple principles are pure Zheng/Lo genius at work. 

It's as though there's a big strong powerful yet somewhat elastic bubble rising from the floor at your feet. This bubble reaches up under your forearms in the RIGHT PENG configuration. It gently presses you upward along those lower/bottom forearm's edges as you statically hold your RIGHT PENG shape. Then, with mind alone, no forcing, no tension, you imagine a slight downward sinking of the lower/bottom edges of both forearms, pressing them (mind alone!) on the top surface of that rising bubble to keep it in place, keep it down.

Then, when you've learned to turn on and feel and experience and understand the peng underbubble from this pose and practice as described, you can then gently, extending the forearm bottom/lower surface, INCLUDE the lower edge of the hand also, the meaty side surface (grade school pencil karate chop surface) seamlessly and smoothly integrate that too into the lower/bottom surface of the forearm that you are mentally very slightly "pressing" downward.

Yeah this simple dumbass braindead little practice is the true meaning and method of PENG energy in Tai Chi. It's not bracing or mechanical structure or any of the other nonsense that most people say and believe that it is. It's just energy pure plain and simple, and this is a powerful road leading straight to it. 

Ultimately though it's only a coincidence that this pose which is a particularly effective entrance ramp to experiencing the fullness of real PENG power happens to be called by that name. In the long run virtually any ZMQ37 pose, and in the very long run no pose at all, will instant-on the same exact internal effect.