Inherent Idea of Chaos

[Anonymous]

Before I forget, there is an Inherent idea of chaos in the palm changes. In fact this really applies to any change from yang to yin or yin to yang.

There are two concepts: 1) You concentrate on yin lines and allow Heaven to do what it does. 2) The change can’t be contrived. If you try to control both sides you screw it up. You control one side and allow the other to do what it does.

I’ll try to explain this some other time, but I don’t want to forget it.

[Anonymous]

Yes, please do explain some other time.

In the meantime: my musings:

Not being a scientist, my grasp of the idea of chaos is very limited–despite some serious attempts to understand it.

But I can see that the palm changes involve the idea of chaos–of course, most everything else involves chaos, too.

Ilya Prigogine, one of the pioneers of chaos theory, saw chaos when close trajectories separate exponentially in time. To him that chaos was creative.
He was unhappy with deterministic chaos and science.

Changing from yang to yin (or yin to yang) is chaotic.
When the focus is on yang you engage the mind/yang by working the yang.
Paradoxically, the more you engage yang the more your yin grows.

(In chaos theory “control” is probably not the best word.
You really do not “control” anything. So, I like to use the term “allow” on both sides of the equations.
So, when I say “focus” on the yang, I don’t mean that you “control” it–or even “lead” it or “lure” it.)

You certainly do “allow” the unfocused side do what it does.

When you look at how the brain functions, this paradigm is not surprising.
Your brain simultaneously processes input along 2 pathways: 1) unconscious, along upper, dorsal, cerebral cortical areas and 2) conscious, along lower, ventral areas.
(The conscious lags the unconscious in time.)
But mainly there are 2 processes occurring simultaneously.

So, I see 4 processes occurring at the same time:
Daoyin.

“Dao” involves challenging the yin so there is more room for your yang.

“yin” involves challenging the yang so your yin grows.

The job of the practitioner is to integrate these opposite and complimentary interactions.

This seems to fit with your the of “tai chi space” and emptiness and stillness in movement and movement in stillness.

Fullness emerges from emptiness as order emerges from chaos.

Later,

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