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Dec. 24th, 2009 11:08 amMe: ...but when you discipline your mind to mathematics, you are really disciplining Mind to mathematics.
K: And now I, and all sentient beings awaken to quadratic forms, and realize that they are perfect and always have been.
*laughter*
Me: I think this teaches me a lot about Sangha. Math was always something I did by myself, and while it was good for me, and I loved it, over time I seemed less and less able to talk to anyone about it, and unable to bring it out and put it to work in the word.
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Yesterday I was trying to get a handle on green dragon's claw, and was working through kind of a qi gong exercise (kind of extempore, but hey, there are a lot of common elements across qi gong styles) to try and see how that would work. And this whole fragment of a form just kind of came rolling out*. Complete with this spinning hook kick (hook kicks are severely not my favorites, but I've been wanting to figure them out better, as B uses them to great effect). So of course I worked through it a couple of more times, thinking "Would this even work?"
So of course I tried it in sparring today. The answer: yes. (K: That was neat! Me: Will you channel L Sensei again?) It was particularly good sparring today. Though I still really need to work on it to get the dynamics right - surprise carried it this time.
* I'm pretty much resigned at this point to this just being how my brain works. Well, and it is fun, if sometimes disconcerting (worse I think for other people than for me, mostly, as long as I'm not worried about passing as sane or something). This morning while I was putting my lunch together it occurred to me that something had been going through my head for the last several hours, and I wondered what it was. Apparently it is xinjing, set to music. Except... in English. No, I don't know why (maybe I suck at writing music to Chinese? Maybe because the Rochester people use English?) I think it's kind of a canon.
K: And now I, and all sentient beings awaken to quadratic forms, and realize that they are perfect and always have been.
*laughter*
Me: I think this teaches me a lot about Sangha. Math was always something I did by myself, and while it was good for me, and I loved it, over time I seemed less and less able to talk to anyone about it, and unable to bring it out and put it to work in the word.
***
Yesterday I was trying to get a handle on green dragon's claw, and was working through kind of a qi gong exercise (kind of extempore, but hey, there are a lot of common elements across qi gong styles) to try and see how that would work. And this whole fragment of a form just kind of came rolling out*. Complete with this spinning hook kick (hook kicks are severely not my favorites, but I've been wanting to figure them out better, as B uses them to great effect). So of course I worked through it a couple of more times, thinking "Would this even work?"
So of course I tried it in sparring today. The answer: yes. (K: That was neat! Me: Will you channel L Sensei again?) It was particularly good sparring today. Though I still really need to work on it to get the dynamics right - surprise carried it this time.
* I'm pretty much resigned at this point to this just being how my brain works. Well, and it is fun, if sometimes disconcerting (worse I think for other people than for me, mostly, as long as I'm not worried about passing as sane or something). This morning while I was putting my lunch together it occurred to me that something had been going through my head for the last several hours, and I wondered what it was. Apparently it is xinjing, set to music. Except... in English. No, I don't know why (maybe I suck at writing music to Chinese? Maybe because the Rochester people use English?) I think it's kind of a canon.
