Thursday night was my first night back at temple after almost 3 weeks. And I'm still recovering. I am sore all over and it leads me to wonder why my muscles have lost their chi so quickly. Is there an expiration date in all of us? Is there a number of days we have to use our muscles and train or we start losing the flexibility and strength? Is there a time limit or can we prolong it by I am thinking of this only because I foresee a future where I am working on TV/Film sets or the stage all the time and all over the world and have much less time to come train at temple. It's very hard to train while working 12 hour days being emotionally available. It's a different kind of training. More like chi kung. Energy based. An internal style.
Well, it sounds like I need to stop whining and writing and actually get my
Amituofo Leo,
ReplyDeleteI know EXACTLY how you feel. Since my visits to train at the temple are not as close togehter as I'd like, every time I train, it is as though I have started all over. My training of Chan Quan at home still doesn't keep me prepared for Temple class and all the classes I take in modern dance and ballet do little but to keep my fleixbility awake.
But, as a wise teacher of mine said on more than one occasion...
MORE CHI! TRAIN HARDER! (to all of us)
:D
Amituofo
Leo, what are you talking about? Waking up and blogging at 8:54am on Saturday morning... That's Chi. I tell you.
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