Posted by: Saber
ki drain? and translation of the shaolin templetex - 05/09/05 05:34 PM
do you think people can make you feel sick with chi or would it only be used for healing. i would think that healing would be the yin side of things and making people sick would be the yang ...... also anyone read the new translation of the shaolin temples text provided by ussd?
Posted by: BaguaMonk
Re: ki drain? and translation of the shaolin templetex - 05/09/05 06:48 PM
Can you show me a link to that book. Is it by any Chance the "Grand masters Text of Shaolin" Or something like that. Be careful with what you read/hear, some of these things have been discovered to be hoaxes (in terms of historical accuracy).
As for chi "drain," yes I believe it is possible for someone to make you feel sick, but not in a martial sense. Well by striking I suppose you could, especially with internal power. In accupresure, the best are those who have great internal energy because with their minds/hands they can actually balance you out. It wouldn't surprise me if someone highly aware of internal mechanics could, but this is the kind of people you hear about in legends.
Posted by: Saber
Re: ki drain? and translation of the shaolin templetex - 05/10/05 04:03 AM
you will find the info at
www.ussd.com
Posted by: Bullfrog
Re: ki drain? and translation of the shaolin templetex - 05/22/05 03:23 AM
No, I don't believe people can make you feel sick with chi. You can make yourself believe that you don't feel well(If someone you respected told you every day of you life that you where clumsy it's very possible that you will start to stumble a bit more or drop things.) But I don't believe it could effect you physically.
Posted by: BaguaMonk
Re: ki drain? and translation of the shaolin templetex - 05/23/05 06:33 PM
Nope. And like I said, if someone could, it woulld be someone of legends. Someone old, practicing their whole life, and with a vast amount of experience.
Mostly the term "unbalanced chi" is a vague one, It could mean alot of things. It doesn't mean that it is the source of your problem(s), but rather that your problems could be the source of the imbalance. It could also mean that they go hand in hand, one is a simpler way of observing the problems. By being "balanced out" it can help in solving the problems, but without getting to the root, nothing will ever be healed. When healers heal others, it is not that they are literally healing you, but rather just helping your energy and body heal itself (guide it). So, could someone perhaps do the reverse? They could aid, or try to initialize someone else getting sick etc. but the most it would do is probably change moods or perception slightly. Its just like when constant exposure to certain emp waves, or sunnlight/lack of sunlight can affect your mood and so forth. But internal striking certainly cause many problems.
Posted by: Katerine
Re: ki drain? and translation of the shaolin templ - 05/28/05 01:18 PM
It has been my experience, that there are somewhat more substantial effects brought about by interactions between people energeticly. I am somewhat cynical, and ever wary of representing metaphysical ideas which I don't have objective first hand experience with.
Anyway, I agree that it wouldn't nessisarily be usefull in a confrontation. And would not avail itself to a dramatic or obvious impact if employed. If you wish to effect physical matter, by FAR the most efficient use of your time is to do so via physical means.
Incidently I'm not *that* old. I find that quality and quantity are, to a limited degree, proportionally interchangeable, where applied to time & effort put into learning such things.