2 ShuiHuJueXing 睡虎覺醒

Sleeping Tiger Wakes Up

ShuiHuJueXing 睡虎覺醒 — Sleeping Tiger Wakes Up

Good morning, Tigers!

The sun is about to rise and it's a beautiful day on top of this 100 year old tower in the middle of the city, just as the full moon is setting here at the apex of Tiger month.

BREAK TRANCE

Opening eyes after HongMengYiQi feels like that cat ready to pounce, the "primary circuit" coming alive again.

Something that strikes me about the text is the emphasis Master Wu places on the toes gripping the earth, the fingers curved like tiger claws: "This is important for holding the energy. The acupuncture points on the extremities are located on the tips of your fingers and toes, the border where microcosmic energy meets macrocosmic energy."

There is a decreasing-radius spiral feeling to this kinesis, which -- as any motorcyclist will tell you -- decreasing radius intensifies force. We'll feel this spiraling quality of movement over and over in Lao Hu Gong.

There is a feeling of the Organs expressing Qi through their meridians, with the extremities, the fingers and toes as the tail of the whip, the tip of the spear, the long end of the lever, the feathery frond, the antenna, the leaf in spring, the eye's pupil directing gaze.

Be aware now.

Be aware of everything around you.

This movement and the previous are associated with the Lungs. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, organs are literally what they are, but more importantly they are patterns of process, ways that Qi and other spiritual factors are embodied. Like patterns of autonomic intent.

Dr Ted Kaptchuk writes: (He tends to capitalize Organs to distinguish them from strictly anatomical organs as understood by Western Medicine).

"The Lungs concern the momentary and ephemeral. Healthy Lungs allow for a single moment or any singular episode of time to become complete."

Which: I read that and I'm like

"OK. That means something."

I am reminded of his description of Jing (often translated as "Essence"): "It is time that goest through a person."

"The Lungs store the Animal Soul (Po). The Animal Soul is the animation, emotional reqactivignt, and pressing urges of human life."

"The Lungs rule Qi." "The Lungs are the arena in which the Qi (meaning air, Natural Air Qi) outside the body meets the Qi inside the body."

Covid has shown us how literally the word arena can mean here.

Master Wu writes

"Tiger looks heavy but moves fast."

I want to feel this mass and power, what it is like to move my body as a 600 pound cat with predator musculature ( instead of these Human muscles, optimized for fine motor control at the expense of strength).

Growl here.

"The throat is said to be the 'door' of the Lungs and the 'home' of the vocal cords, so both the throat and vocal cords are also related to the Lungs."

Growl is a purr when you are tiger.

Purr at the joy of waking.