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note: this stanford study linked below has interesting implications for qigong adepts. Qigong could be considered a concentrated form of walking – it is walking with “internal focus”. So I believe it creative benefits are even higher than the standard walking in the stanford experiment (which found walking outdoors or on a treadmill to be equally beneficial).
However, the Stanford researchers don’t have an explanation as to WHY walking boosts creativity. I believe it is because of the meridian stimulation to the vital organ spirits, that are responsible for “creating” our reality. – Michael
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/april/walking-vs-sitting-042414.html
Only easy day was yesterday.
-U.S. Navy SEAL mottoI think it’s possible to turn any mode of movement into discipline.
So also this free running aspect is interesting.
Actually most immediately important ninja skills are primitive survival and free running in my opinion.
HOWDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX7QNWEGcNI (parkour)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80Hyz4pOXtE (freerunning)
Walking is one of the top 3 premier ways of positively nurturing the wood element.
Wood is the element of growth and where fresh ideas come from.
They call something new as “green” for no reason.S
According to the book Magic and Mystery in Tibet by French explorer Alexandra David-Néel, Milarepa boasted of having “crossed in a few days, a distance which, before his training in black magic, had taken him more than a month. He ascribes his gift to the clever control of ‘internal air’.” David-Néel comments “that at the house of the lama who taught him black magic there lived a trapa [monk] who was fleeter than a horse” using the same skill. After witnessing such a monk David-Néel described how:
He seemed to lift himself from the ground.. His steps had the regularity of a pendulum.. ..the traveller seemed to be in a trance.” This esoteric skill, which is known as Lung-gom-pa in Tibet, is said to allow a practitioner to run at an extraordinary speed for days without stopping. This technique could be compared to that practised by the Kaihôgyô monks of Mount Hiei and by practitioners of Shugendô, Japan.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MilarepaIf one is more committed type one should also rise the the ideal goal high enough.
So for example this kaihôgyô is worth investigating in my opinion.
Clearly one doesn’t need to become any Tendai Buddhist but learn to combine athletic feats with yogic aspirations.
HOWDY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HluHrJPaRro (mortalkombatxsubzeroscorpion)
If You Commit to Nothing, Youll Be Distracted By Everything
by James Clear
In the northeastern hills outside Kyoto, Japan there is a mountain known as Mount Hiei. That mountain is littered with unmarked graves.
Those graves mark the final resting place of the Tendai Buddhist monks who have failed to complete a quest known as the Kaihogyo.
What is this quest that kills so many of the monks? And what can you and I learn from it?
Keep reading and Ill tell you.
The Marathon Monks
The Tendai monks believe that enlightenment can be achieved during your current life, but only through extreme selfdenial.
For the Tendai, the ultimate act of selfdenial and the route to enlightenment is a physical challenge known as the Kaihogyo. Because of this challenge, the Tendai are often called the Marathon Monks.
But the Kaihogyo is much more than a marathon.
The Kaihogyo
The Kaihogyo is a 1,000 day challenge that takes place over seven years.
If a monk chooses to undertake this challenge, this is what awaits him
During Year 1, the monk must run 30 km per day (about 18 miles) for 100 straight days.
During Year 2, the monk must again run 30 km per day for 100 straight days.
During Year 3, the monk must once more run 30 km per day for 100 straight days.
During Year 4, the monk must run 30 km per day. This time for 200 straight days.
During Year 5, the monk must again run 30 km per day for 200 straight days. After completing the fifth year of running, the monk must go 9 consecutive days without food, water, or rest. Two monks stand beside him at all times to ensure that he does not fall asleep.
During Year 6, the monk must run 60 km (about 37 miles) per day for 100 straight days.
During Year 7, the monk must run 84 km (about 52 miles) per day for 100 straight days. (52 miles per day!) And then, he must run 30 km per day for the final 100 days.
The sheer volume of running is incredible, of course, but there is one final challenge that makes The Kaihogyo unlike any other feat
Day 101
During the first 100 days of running, the monk is allowed to withdraw from the Kaihogyo.
However, from Day 101 onwards, there is no withdrawal. The monk must either complete the Kaihogyo or take his own life.
Because of this, the monks carry a length of rope and a short sword at all times on their journey.
In the last 400+ years, only 46 men have completed the challenge. Many others can be found by their unmarked graves on the hills of Mount Hiei.
3 Lessons on Mental Toughness and Commitment
The mental toughness of the Marathon Monks is incredible and their feats are unlike most challenges that you and I will face. But, there are still many lessons we can learn from them.
1. Complete or Kill.
The Marathon Monks are an extreme version of the complete or kill mentality. But you can take the same approach to your goals, projects, and work.
If something is important to you, complete it. If not, kill it.
If youre anything like me, then you probably have a bunch of halffinished, halfcompleted projects and ideas. You dont need all of those loose ends.
Either something is important enough to you to complete, or its time to kill it. Fill your life with goals that are worth finishing and eliminate the rest.
2. If you commit to nothing, youre distracted by everything.
Most of us never face a challenge with the true possibility of death, but we can learn a lot from the monks sense of commitment and conviction. They have clarified exactly what they are working toward and for seven years they organize their life around the goal of completing the Kaihogyo. Every possible distraction is rendered unimportant.
Do you think the monks get distracted by TV, movies, the internet, celebrity gossip, or any of the other things that we so often waste time on? Of course not.
If you choose, you can make a similar decision in your life. Sure, your daily goals may not carry the same sense of urgency as the Kaihogyo, but that doesnt mean you cant approach them with the same sense of conviction.
We all have things that we say are important to us. You might say that you want to lose weight or be a better parent or create work that matters or build a successful business or write a book but do you make time for these goals above all else? Do your organize your day around accomplishing them?
If you commit to nothing, then youll find that its easy to be distracted by everything.
3. It doesnt matter how long your goal will take, just get started.
On Day 101, the Tendai monks are thousands of miles and 900 days from their goal. They are setting out on a journey that is so long and so arduous that its almost impossible for you and I to imagine. And yet, they still accept the full challenge. Day after day, year after year, they work.
And seven years later, they finish.
Dont let the length of your goals prevent you from starting on them.
Never give up on a dream just because of the length of time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
H. Jackson BrownWhat Makes You Different From the Marathon Monks
There is one very fortunate difference between you and the Tendai monks. You wont die if you dont reach your goal!
In the words of Seth Godin, you literally have the privilege of being wrong. You wont die if you fail, youll only learn.
Furthermore, you can always change your mind. If you commit to a goal, work on it for a year, and decide that this isnt actually what you wanted guess what? Youre free to choose something else.
This should take a burden off of your shoulders! You dont have to worry about committing to the right thing. If youre debating between choices, just choose one. You can always adjust later on.
You have the opportunity to choose a goal that is important to you and the privilege of failing with very little consequence. Dont waste that privilege.
Where to Go From Here
The biggest lesson that the Tendai monks offer for everyday people like you and me is the lesson of commitment and conviction.
Imagine the sense of commitment that the monk feels on Day 101. Imagine what it feels like to embrace the final 900 days of that challenge. Imagine what it feels like to accept a goal that is so important to you that you tell yourself, Im going to finish this or I will die trying.
If you have something that is important to you, then eliminate the unrelated and unimportant tasks, get started no matter how big the challenge, and commit to your goal.
Every big challenge has a turning point. Today could be your Day 101. Today could be your Day of Commitment.
I started studying this when I was seventeen, I decided then that I want to read Sanskrit in Oxford, but I think that my interest appeared before that. I have been thinking of that recently. I think that first impetus for that I got when reading Kim by Rudyard Kipling, I read that when I was about 14-15 and I had to read that at school like 3 or 4 times. And looking back now, well, I loved reading it at a time, it was about a young English boy traveling around with a holy man in India, and thats where I ended up spending my age at 20 to 30, spending most of my time traveling around. Because then when I was 17 I had a year off between school and university. I went to India and spent 7 month there traveling around. And I go back to India every year since. I literally havent missed a year. I came back and did my PA in Sanskrit. It wasnt until after that I went to SOAS London University and I did an MA doing kind of anthropology, ethnography of yogis in India. And it was then like I was drawing into all this different disciplines anthropology, using Sanskrit and Hindi, a bit of sociology, history and so forth.
-http://wildyogi.info/en/issue/interview-james-mallinson-sanskrit-and-paraglidingRobert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM GCMG GCVO KCB (/ˈbeɪdən ˈpoʊ.əl/ Baden as in maiden; Powell as in Noel) (22 February 1857 8 January 1941), also known as B-P or Lord Baden-Powell, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder of the Scout Movement and first Chief Scout of The Boy Scouts Association.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Baden-Powell,_1st_Baron_Baden-PowellKim’s Game is a game or exercise played by Boy Scouts and other children’s groups. The game develops a person’s capacity to observe and remember details. The name is derived from Rudyard Kipling’s 1901 novel Kim, in which the hero, Kim, plays the game during his training as a spy.
-http://www.wikianswers.com/Q/What_is_the_kim’s_game_in_scoutingThree of the experiments relied on a “divergent thinking” creativity test. Divergent thinking is a thought process or method used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions. In these experiments, participants had to think of alternate uses for a given object. They were given several sets of three objects and had four minutes to come up with as many responses as possible for each set. A response was considered novel if no other participant in the group used it. Researchers also gauged whether a response was appropriate. For example, a “tire” could not be used as a pinkie ring.
The overwhelming majority of the participants in these three experiments were more creative while walking than sitting, the study found. In one of those experiments, participants were tested indoors first while sitting, then while walking on a treadmill. The creative output increased by an average of 60 percent when the person was walking, according to the study.
A fourth experiment evaluated creative output by measuring people’s abilities to generate complex analogies to prompt phrases. The most creative responses were those that captured the deep structure of the prompt. For example, for the prompt “a robbed safe,” a response of “a soldier suffering from PTSD” captures the sense of loss, violation and dysfunction. “An empty wallet” does not.
The result: 100 percent of those who walked outside were able to generate at least one high-quality, novel analogy compared to 50 percent of those seated inside.
-http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/april/walking-vs-sitting-042414.htmlU.S. Navy SEAL Sniper Training Program by U.S. NAVY
The SAS Guide to Tracking By BOB CARRS
Sorry but I still added these two links just to make notice how certain military circles use this simple exercise which is described in Kipling’s novel.
It’s not important only for snipers, but also for trackers.
Originally it’s yogic practice which is becoming important during pratyahara, 5th and last bahir (external) anga.
So if one is not so much concerned immediately with that study above only, but cognitive skills which have been examined, taking very shortly look at K.I.M.S. game might serve some purpose.
Dharana is the 6th and 1st antar (inner) anga. One should regard to be at the level of dharana only when one is able to immobilize body totally. Real inner life can start only there.
During pratyahara this is not critical factor.
Yogically one is playing Kim’s game not only with sense of sight but with other senses as well.
What is important is to alternate with passive and active state of mind when one is browsing the content of the senses.
Of course it’s natural to start with passive or witnessing attitude.
More actively one starts to analyze (non-verbally) various perceptions trying to do it alternatively slowly and quickly when browsing the sense of sight, hearing, smell etc. Mastering only this takes long time and there are many other important pratyahara practices.
So though it might be true with this study at hand that ‘creativity’ might be different during sitting and walking yogically one should override that kind of difference and develop mind-power so that it serves consistently in any situation.
HOWDY
Ps. Sorry for my broken English.
The skill of “To Fly up to the Ridge and to Walk on a Wall” is also called “Eight Steps in the Horizontal Position”. It is soft Gong Fu, it develops the internal power and belongs to one of kinds of “Light Body” exercises. The secret technique of that method was passed over only by monks of the Shaolin monastery.
The training method is very simple. Tie small bags of coarse fabric with iron shot (treated in pig blood) to your arms and legs. The weight of those bags are small in the beginning. You have to run on a wall in the horizontal position every day. Touch down when you are exhausted.
-JIN JIN ZHONG, Aunthentic Shaolin Heritage Training Methods of 72 Arts of ShaolinChen Changxing of the 14th generation is credited with synthesizing the forms handed down by his ancestor. One of the factors that prompted this change was the high physical demands of the traditional routines. They contained many difficult stunts, such as jumping up into the air and coming with leg split or in a handstand; taking crouch stance and circling one’s head over the extended front foot; high floating scissors kick; and so on, making the routines unsuitable for even high-level martial artists when they reached advanced age. By the 14th generation, only the very skilled and committed in Chenjiagou could do the Long Boxing and the last three sets of five-set Taiji Shadow Boxing.
-DAVIDINE SIAW-VOON SIM & DAVID GAFFNEY, Chen Style Taijiquan-The Source of Taiji BoxingWritten by the well known Leung Ting, a student of grandmaster Yip Man, this colorful book reveals all the top secrets of Chinese Black Art: Defraudation, MOU SHAN Witchcraft, Drugs and Poisons, Great Magic Shows, Body-Disappearance Techniques, Vagabond Kung Fu, Secret Communication Techniques, Self Defense Techniques and many methods of Stealth, Evasion and Escape from hostile pursuers and other dangerous situations.
-http://www.kungfulibrary.com/skills_of_the_vagabonds_1.htmIt’s interesting to notice this tendency for degeneration also here or actually there it’s the question in what conditions it’s possible to advance skillfully.
But again this situation doesn’t anyway diminish the creative possibilities of the hobo kung fu practitioners; those are better than ever in my opinion.
Sorry for my broken English.
HOWDY
What’s with the pig blood?
Seems ridiculously ritualistic, if all you are trying to do is add objects that are heavy to the body.S
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, or reef, which forms the mineralized package of economic interest to the miner.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiningLead (/lɛd/) is a chemical element in the carbon group with symbol Pb (from Latin: plumbum) and atomic number 82. Lead is a soft, malleable and heavy post-transition metal. Metallic lead has a bluish-white color after being freshly cut, but it soon tarnishes to a dull grayish color when exposed to air. Lead has a shiny chrome-silver luster when it is melted into a liquid. It is also the heaviest non-radioactive element.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LeadChinese practitioners (not only Shaolin) have seemingly had various ways to avoid poisonous influences of special substances like lead.
There isn’t any taboo like with Jews and Muslims.
Use of these are in those Shaolin treatises quite clearly presented.
Sorry for my broken English.
HOWDY
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Sorry but it’s only quite heavy object to practice with in my opinion.
Lead is quite poisonous.
HOWDY
Ps. Yang, Jwing Ming version of that practice:
Sorry for my broken English.
OK, NOW you are saying lead. Your original post said IRON.
“Tie small bags of coarse fabric with iron shot (treated in pig blood) to your arms and legs.”S
Tael (/ˈteɪl/; simplified Chinese: Á½; traditional Chinese: É; pinyin: li¨£ng) or tahil can refer to any one of several weight measures of the Far East. Most commonly, it refers to the Chinese tael, a part of the Chinese system of weights and currency.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TaelThe catty or kati (/ˈkɛtɪ/ in Singaporean English), symbol ½ï, is a traditional Chinese unit of mass used across East and Southeast Asia, notably for weighing food and other groceries in some wet markets, street markets, and shops. Related units include the picul, equal to 100 catties, and the tael (also spelled tahil, in Malay / Indonesian), which is 1⁄16 of a catty. A stone is a former unit used in Hong Kong equal to 120 catties and a gwan (âx) is 30 catties. Catty or kati is still used in South East Asia as a unit of measurement in some contexts especially by the significant Overseas Chinese populations of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CattyThe training method is as follows: fill fabric bags with lead or iron shot and tie them to legs. Run quickly on a flat ground until you exhaust. In the beginning the weight of shot (it should be treated with pork’s blood) must not be great. Later, add periodically, in every few days, one LIANG (50 g) until the weight of shot on each leg reaches 4 or 5 JINs (2-5 kg). It is difficult a little at first, but if you go with this load 50 km each day, in several years later nobody can run down you if you walk without bag with shots. But to go on a flat ground by day is not yet enough. If you can go at night on a rugged ground or on a ground with sheer rocks and cliffs as fast and adroitly as on a flat ground, you can be sure that the full success has been achieved. After taking off bags with shot you will feel the lightness of your body, you can jump over high walls, climb almost impassable mountains…the method of the acquirement of “Skill of jumps” can not be discussed without mentioning obligatory use of lead in the training process. Due to effect of lead, blisters and internal bruises may appear on the skin, they can cause the formation of abscesses in future. To avoid that, lead must be heated on fire until it becomes red and then dip it into pig’s blood. Before that, it is necessary to dip lead into a vessel filled with pig’s blood and leave it there for one night and only after that lead should be heated on fire and dipped into a pig’s blood as above described. Repeat (heating and soaking in pig’s blood) seven times. After pig’s blood interacts with lead, the color of the lead will become dark-violet, such lead is called “dead” lead. The lead treated so should be dug into the earth for 49 days for full elimination of its poisonous properties. After lead is dug out, it must be be washed in clean water. After that lead is ready for use.
-JIN JING ZHONG, Authentic Shaolin Heritage Training Methods of 72 Arts of ShaolinIt’s probably some kind of unintentional omission because in other places were extra weights are used mostly both alternatives are mentioned in the book.
There isn’t also any reason given why pig’s blood should be better than for example cow’s.
HOWDY
Ps. Sorry but I think that some sections of that book are written in broken English.
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Shot is a collective term for small balls or pellets, often made of lead. These were the original projectiles for shotguns and are still fired primarily from shotguns, although shot shells are available in many pistol calibers in a configuration called “Bird Shot” or “Rat-shot”. Lead shot is also used for a variety of other purposes such as filling cavities with dense material for weight/balance. Some versions may be plated with other metals. Lead shot was originally made by pouring molten lead through screens into water, forming what was known as “swan shot”, and, later, more economically mass-produced at higher quality using a shot tower. The Bliemeister method has supplanted the shot tower method since the early 1960s.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_%28pellet%29A shot tower is a tower designed for the production of shot balls by freefall of molten lead, which is then caught in a water basin. The shot is used for projectiles in firearms.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_towerWhen did they start to use either iron or lead shots as extra weight?
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What’s with the pig blood?
Seems ridiculously ritualistic, if all you are trying to do is add objects that are heavy to the body.
-http://forum.healingdao.com/practice/message/24904/It said balls made of iron, not balls made of lead.
-http://forum.healingdao.com/practice/message/24906/The method of the acquirement of “Skill of jumps” can not be discussed without mentioning obligatory use of lead in the training process. Due to effect of lead, blisters and internal bruises may appear on the skin, they can cause the formation of abscesses in future. To avoid that, lead must be heated on fire until it becomes red and then dip it into pig’s blood.
-JIN JING ZHONG, Authentic Shaolin Heritage Training Methods of 72 Arts of Shaolinhttp://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jun/16/caravaggio-italy-remains-ravenna-art
He killed a man, brawled constantly, rowed with patrons and fled justice while revolutionising painting with his chiaroscuro style. Now, as if to underline how dramatic Caravaggio’s short life was, researchers say he may have quite literally died for his art.
Scientists seeking to shed light on the mysterious death of the Italian artist in 1610 said they are “85% sure” they have found his bones thanks to carbon dating and DNA checks on remains excavated in Tuscany.
Caravaggio’s suspected bones come complete with levels of lead high enough to have driven the painter mad and helped finish him off.
“The lead likely came from his paints he was known to be extremely messy with them,” said Silvano Vinceti, the researcher who announced the findings today .
“Lead poisoning won’t kill you on its own we believe he had infected wounds and sunstroke too but it was one of the causes.”
Art historians already suspect that Goya and Van Gogh may have suffered from the ill effects of the lead in their paints, which can cause depression, pain and personality changes.
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio after the Lombardy town where he grew up, was a young man at the height of his career in Rome when he killed a man in a brawl in 1606, fleeing to find new patrons in Naples and then Malta, only to be thrown off the island two years later for more brawling.
“After a fortnight’s work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ballcourt to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument,” wrote one observer.
In between fights he found time to astound his contemporaries with his shocking realism and use of light and shade chiaroscuro although he won no favours with religious authorities in Rome when he reportedly used a famous prostitute as a model for the madonna.
From Malta, Caravaggio moved to Sicily, where his paintings became as dark and shadowy as his worsening moods which prompted him to sleep armed and tear up paintings after any criticism.
Returning to Naples, Caravaggio was the victim of a possible attempt on his life, leaving him with the wounds Vinceti believes became infected and spurring him on to Tuscany were he hoped to obtain a pardon for the Rome murder.
How Caravaggio died there, at 38, has been shrouded in mystery ever since a blank page that Vinceti and a team of archaeologists and forensic scientists have set out to fill 400 years after his death.
To test existing theories that he died of malaria on a Tuscan beach, was devoured by syphilis, or was murdered by one of his many enemies, the team needed to start by locating Caravaggio’s remains, which had never been found.
Vinceti went into action when a document was unearthed suggesting the painter was buried in the tiny San Sebastiano cemetery in Porto Ercole.
Discovering that the site had been built over in 1956, the team headed for the town’s municipal cemetery to where the bones had been shifted, turning up nine potential sets.
“Set number five turned out to be from a tall man Caravaggio was described as such while tests showed he was between 38 and 40 and died around 1610,” said Vinceti.
The team’s next stop was the town of Caravaggio to compare DNA from the bones with local people. No descendents were found but families with the same surname were traced, giving samples which were 50 to 60% compatible with the bones.
Add in the toxic level of lead in the remains and Vinceti is convinced he has his man, adding to his reputation as Italy’s foremost cold case historian, which he won when he dug up the remains of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, a philosopher at the court of the Medicis, to prove he had been poisoned.
Now Vinceti is aiming for Leonardo da Vinci, hoping the custodians of his tomb will let him in to create a facial reconstruction of the Renaissance polymath.
Vinceti’s press conference today at which a purported fragment of Caravaggio’s skull was displayed on a silk red cushion could not have been better timed.
Shunned after his death before coming to be recognised as one of the fathers of modern painting, an exhibition of Caravaggio’s work at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome this year celebrating the 400th anniversary of his death attracted 580,000 visitors.
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