What are we looking for?

[Kingmonkey]

Hello Forum

The longer I read around you I realise that there are mainly 3 kind of people posting; The ones who are asking questions in search of answers, the ones who give answers and the ones who give advice.

I haven't done statistics but I think a majority is questions, looking for awnsers,seemingly small questions and BIG ones.

But even the smallest question about posture during Lifting the sky is suggesting that the inquirer is on the search of "something". Why else should he want to get the most possible benefits out of qi Gong.....

Now I would like to invite everybody to answer a simple question:

What is it we are all looking for? Why do we practice ( Qi Kung, Kung Fu, Tai Chi Chuan, Spiritual Preparation)?

Is it health, peace, freedom, agility, salvation, or just fun, or even fighting skills ???

Looking forward to some replies Pat

[mping]

Hello, nice question!

To put it short:

• I'm looking for personal improvement on all planes: physical, mental and spiritual.
• Why? So this world becomes a better place
• How? From the inside out, of course (this wasn't a question but it's part of the answer anyway)

[Adam Kryder]

Trick Question Eh?

[Kingmonkey]

Trick Question Eh?

Not a bit, no, not at all !

why do you think so??

[Andrew R]

Trick Question Eh?

I think he means the highest attain, what we truly strive for, cannot be found by searching.

Am I on the right track Senor Adam?

Andrew

[Kingmonkey]

I think he means the highest attain, what we truly strive for, cannot be found by searching.

Am I on the right track Senor Adam?

Andrew

AAhh yes, then off course you are more than right Adam

In that sense it in fact is a trick question.

The thought that you mean something like that arose and I had my difficultis answering, but for some reason I've chosen to reply the other way.......

[Omar]

Once you have stopped looking, and started walking, many questions answers themselves.

My reasons for practising is for health, vitality, energy to enjoy life and help others enjoy, self defense and realisation.

And at the end of the road, be it tomorrow or twenty billion years down the road, Going Home.

Now, are some of these is big or small questions?

- How many stars are there in the universe?

- What does a banana sound like?

- Why don't an enlightened master see the animals in the forest?

[joko]

What is it we are all looking for? Why do we practice ( Qi Kung, Kung Fu, Tai Chi Chuan, Spiritual Preparation)?

To complete the circle ... ; because the circle is not complete ... yet.

--
Joko

[Adam Kryder]

Trick Question Eh?

I think he means the highest attain, what we truly strive for, cannot be found by searching.

Am I on the right track Senor Adam?

Really, just some fun zen humor.




Best to all,

Adam

[Racheli]

What am I looking for?
I am looking for my sunglasses.
Why do I practice?
So next time I'll put them in the right place!

[Maxime]

Ha ha ha sister!

That's so Zen, so Zen...

Still Holding My Belly,

[Charles David]

Before reading any of the other posts:

I recall a favorite line from the Great Pablo Picasso:

I do not seek; I find.



Still,

[Kingmonkey]

Nice answes so far, very nice

Put a fish on land and he will remember the ocean
until he dies. Put a bird in a cage, yet he will not forget the sky. Each remains
homesick for his true home, the place where his nature has decreed that he should
be. Man is born in the state of innocence. His original nature is love and grace
and purity. Yet he emigrates so casually, without even a thought of his old home.
Is this not sadder than the fishes and the birds?