I feel safe in the presence of stress and aggression. I can speak brave words and express confidence because I can kill with my bare hands. What silly rules of etiquette, scary social norms, or sadistic corporate policies stand in my way? What deviant criminal or sadistic fool can harm my good will? None.
I need never compromise my principles. I may always protect myself, my family, my friends, and people near me. These are reasons to know Tai Chi Chuan’s Dim-Mak — Death Point Striking.
Stillness Influence
I remain calm and present — often I get quieter mentally, calmer emotionally, and more present physically — when confronted with aggression. I trust that my reflexive responses will be appropriate to the aggressor, the situation, and the level of violence. It’s nice. It’s good for everyone’s safety.
This deep-quiet response often provokes quietude in an aggressor, calming a hot situation rather than heating it. I divert violent tendencies by acting unpredictably, using my heart and my stillness as a guide, not using common, fearful defensiveness. I therefore help bring calm into wild scenarios. My inner confidence can be overwhelming, projecting outward, though, in the moment, it’s hard to tell.
Fighting for Peace
Learning to fight, to maim, and to kill expands my choices available in every scenario. As I widen my spectrum of choices — from backing away peacefully to attacking ruthlessly — I create a vast and powerful array of options. And when I allow enough stillness to enter my mental, emotional, and physical bodies, I allow my heart to guide and to choose proper and necessary actions.
Real stillness, deep calm, and true quiet, however, was difficult for me to achieve while under duress. I struggled more with fear and anxiety until I began to study Death Point Striking. Using the methods of the internal art of Taiji Quan, I can study aggression and practice fighting softly at first and then with ever increasing pressure. This method creates opportunities to explore stress and aggression in safe ways, so that, when the real pressure is on, my options do not diminish, but expand.
Studying fighting, maiming, and killing also expands my awareness about the fragility of human beings. I am fragile, and I recognize that fragility of others. Everyone — even the apparently toughest loudmouth — is vulnerable and fragile. Everyone. This empathy goes far in my life. This is reality; it is true. All of us are fragile. Each one of us vulnerable to the world and to one another. I study, recognize, and enrich my ever care, sensitivity, and safety while I study these internal arts.
Study Death Point Striking. It’s a fragile art of war and a hearty study of peace.
