Master Ni has retired - His Last day was Saturday - Age 88.

Before he retired he relayed some very interesting information which I will relay as best as I can.

He said that the highest non weapons activity was free form sparring - quite a surprise - seeing as how he's never taught it.

He also said that 'free flower stepping' was a major key to this. As far as we could figure, he seemed to be saying that the insubstantial foot was the key to the energy - so light that you could walk on lotus flowers on a pond without crushing them - or sinking in the water.

Next he said that immortality will never be reached as long as any yin remains, and that one will never die as long as any yang remains.

While there are many opinions about this comment, I will relay my take, since my Person appears to be the Writer.

In this context, the yin is the false, while the yang is true. The yin is the accretion of cultural conditioning which has been building since we were infants. All the misconceptions which are built into culture and parenting cloud up the Mirror of the Mind - layer upon layer.

All of these must be cleaned off, before one manifests as an Immortal. Before this idealized point any manifestation is polluted by the yin of the red dust of cultural conditioning which falls daily. It must be cleaned off daily if to prevent the build up which distorts the Direct Perception of Reality.

Of course the yang is the direct manifestation of the truth, purified of the false. According to I Ching philosophy the yang must be continually purified because it is constantly being corrupted by the yin. Indeed one must continually self reflect - turning the light around to clean off the yin, which rises so rapidl*(*(*(,(,(,(+(+(+*$*$
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