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- From: ttk@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (the troglodyte killer)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: query on kundalini, kung fu, etc.
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 02:32:20 GMT
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- > HI!
- > A friend of mine who does Crane Kung Fu says that Snake Kung Fu
- >cultivates Kundalini very well. Does anybody corroborate this? If so,
- >how can I learn it?
-
- I don't have any experience in Snake Kung Fu, but I find it
- rather doubtful that a chinese martial art would have anything to
- do with kundalini..
-
- > I know that Tai-Chi is supposed to get your chi all nice and balanced,
- >but are there other martial arts that work with kundalini? Some would
- >argue that kundalini is not equal to chi, or perhaps is a specific kind of
- >chi-- opinions?
-
- Kundalini and chi are pretty much different.. They're a
- different kind of energy, a different kind of motion, and act
- differently within you. There is an analog to chi in yoga, but
- even this is considered distinct from kundalini.
-
- > What is the best martial art for developing extreme ki control?
- >Not that I have a lot of bricks that need breaking, but it would be
- >of tremendous value to neuroscience to have this skill, IMHO.
- >Do all of you do hatha yoga? Do you do raja yoga?
-
- There is a japanese martial art called Kiaido which is
- supposed to make use of the kiai alone to knock the opponent
- unconscious. Most yogi understand that when they practice the
- motion of kundalini they're potentially messing with the nature of
- reality (which includes all that nifty pk stuff that you see in
- japanime flicks ;-), but by the time they progress to the point
- that they could concievably "do nifty stuff", they don't want to
- (or rather, their idea of what "nifty stuff" is has changed
- sufficiently that you won't see them practicing pk). An important
- exception to this rule is the practitioners of left-handed tantra,
- most notably the Brotherhood of the Left Hand. Not nice people.
-
- I practice tantric yoga to give my chosen martial art
- (Shotokan Karate) an internal aspect. I haven't messed with my
- kundalini, and probably won't for some time (probably forever).
-
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