December 26, Sifu Steve writes:
Boxing Day 2012, and day 18/100 on animals.
Creative conundrums abound as I approach the Dragon! Randall's "Five Ancients" study is a big source of inspiration!
I can really see the energy-distinction between the azure and golden dragons. In my notes on the qigong I have written:
"The Cold Mountain Internal Arts concept of Dragon energy blends two different conceptions.
The Azure Dragon, sometimes referred to as Blue or Green, is the Lord of the sea or of the East, and is the embodiment of the Yang principle. In ancient Chinese poetry he is the sky-lord who is wed to the Shamanka Queen, the Metal Mother (see Tiger) who dwells in the west. The primary associations of the Azure dragon are water and wood.
The Golden Dragon is associated with the energies of fire and earth, and of the earthquake. It is the Lord of the Centre, and of transmutation from which other energies arise.
The Azure Dragon has a quality of wood, water, storm and lightning. It coils and then shoots out, but the Golden Dragon has more of an earthquake quality: a sense of epicenter, with power going out from this centre."
Creatively, I'd like to combine both of these in the Tai Chi form. I've generated a list of moves peculiar to each Dragon. But there is so much! How to produce something concise and transferrable, without putting too much in?
My exercise today has consisted of putting together an initial sequence rooted in the "Swimming Dragon" idea, and two other sequences. The longer of these two latter sequences is definitely Azure Dragon and uses the Old Yang circle walk into the 1st Bagwa palm change and Sweep Lotus. The third and final sequence is more Golden Dragon and ends with King Kong Mailed Fist.
I think this gives me the outline of a form. Does it have an internal narrative of energy?
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