Mo PaiArchive

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Practice

5 articles in this section of the archive.

The Training Method Everything the sources actually say about what you do, assembled in one place. 13 min read Yin Qi, Yang Qi, and the Theory What the tradition says is happening inside the body, in its own terms and in the terms its Western readers reached for. 10 min read Safety Not boilerplate. The classical literature on internal practice going wrong is old, specific, and worth reading. 8 min read The Ground Why the practice insists on bare earth, what it claims comes up through it, and how much of that instruction is actually old. 8 min read The Borderline State The condition the sitting is supposed to happen in — treated as a precondition rather than a result, and the real bottleneck in the whole method. 9 min read