Lots of people were confused with this (including me): if you rely on your mind and not you strength (especially muscular strength), how can you defeat your opponent? That’s because that verse is too simple and obscure, and can lead to many interpretations. If we could not experience the feelings, how can we understand that from just our usual thinking? The theory is very different from the common sense.
Only when you experience that, can you understand what that means. It does not say, just use your mind and do nothing, but actually to use your mind to generate and lead your Jin. And Jin is the weapon to defeat (or “love”) your enemy, not Li (strength). Using mind or not, the effect can be very different, even your external posture looks identical. One good example is, today I could feel clearly in one of the self-defence applications that, I could transfer my An Jin from the ground to my right hand two fingers, and issue it to the opponent. The opponent felt the very difference.
So practitioners, Use Yi Not Li…
- Written by Lizeh, 2010
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