Written by Lak Loi, Founder of Martial Mind Power
Combat
In combat, there is this idea of a ‘window’ (not like the ones on your house with frames and glass in the middle, though the concept I’m about to explain works in a similar way). Let me elaborate…
Open Closedness – In combat, if you lower your lead hand guard, you open a window on the high-line up on which your opponent can attack you, whilst you close the window on the low-line on which your guard sits and protects you now.
Closed Openness – Similarly, if you raise your lead hand guard, you close the window on the high-line up on which your guard sits and protects, whilst you open the window on the low-line on which your opponent can attack you now.
Whenever a window opens on the same weapon (for example the lead hand guard), another one closes. Whenever a window closes, another one opens.
Life
Life works in pretty much the same way. Have you ever been in a situation when…
Open Closedness – You are open with someone and you find your openness confining because your conversationalist does not understand your message and tries to shut you down before you’ve made your point, or simply is not interested and closes you out maybe whilst still pretending to listen to you.
Closed Openness – On the other hand, have you closed yourself off with someone in conversation and chose to say nothing at all, and all of a sudden your conversationalist opens up and starts to pour their heart out to ‘to fill the gap’ in the window.
Monality
As in the combat and life example, whatever window is opening or closing, they work as ONE rather than two separate dualistic components, just like the lead hand moving up or down… one limbs movement affecting the openness and closedness of a window changing continuously.
But the question is, you always knew whatever your metaphorical window, whether it should be opened or closed in the first place, because as you go through the motions, your sensory acuity and intuition are informing you whether you should be open in a certain area, and closed in another.
And it is just like that, that you start to understand that there is an energetic interplay at work in combat and life, and only when you start to become aware of it and start to play with it, can you truly start to enjoy this dance.
Love and light, Lak
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