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I quoted six different unrelated methods that shared the same physical approach to wuji. Sahaja explained the idea really nicely. You start with wuji, you end with wuji...but if your wuji is doing nothing, then you get nothing from it

Any system worth its salt has a wuji posture. Southern mantis for example uses wuji to teach inner sinking without external sinking.K atori shinto ryu does the same with their natural stance, as described by Sugino. A similar description is done by Tom Bisio too. Almost the same as explained in Sun family methods (tcc,xingyi,etc). Dan Harden teaches it as misogi model. Damo mitchell has wuji teachings too... It's more like if you are only doing stillness in your wuji, you never learned wuji.

Sorry if too blunt but that explanation sounds purely like external methods

That could be case, but without meeting him how do you know it's activated and that it was because of that method? You practise several styles, couldnt the activation come from your previous experiences or parallel training?

I think that it's very unlikely to happen. The reason is simple, if you spend a long time in a method, chances are you either end meeting the teacher/master (then receiving qi emission from him) or dropping the method. It would be really strange for someone to spend years doing serious training without deciding to do a medical trip and/or having qi pills (yeah, it's expensive, but many years paying for training arent cheap either). Chances are any serious student of Rudi ends receiving a dantian activation, so I think that it's extremely difficult to know if the method works on its own

I dont know if that's the case, but I would like to know if any student developed qi emission just by trainingg Rudi's method without doing medical trips/dantian activations

sadly yes. Rudi is really nice but the medical trips are several thousands of $

Recovery and frecuency it's discussed mainly in the fa gong groups. There are a lot of warnings and concerns about emitting too much too ofteb

He also says that you can develop or fill your dantian so the whole discussion is about the starting point... If this is only about you need to create a dantian vs you need to develop your dantian... a "level zero" dantian that already exists is as useful or useless as a "level zero" dantian that you need to build. Build/rebuild to be able to do something with it vs develop and fill it to be able to do something with it...it's the same, just semantics

Seems like an interesting system, do you practise it?

External alchemy is a thing and several kinds of qi pills exist. They are usually extremely expensive. However, cleansing in a manhua sense is just fantasy. Real life is more complicated.

The differences become crystal clear if you work at the tourism sector. You can almost predict how the guests are going to behave at your hotel from the second they are doing the check in. It has an uncanny accuracy. I have probably met tourists from over one hundred different countries.

Even zhong yunlong was in the verge of crippling himself due to alcohol addiction. As a whole, Wudang should be ignored these days

There is always a bit of truth inside all these lies. Regarding Wudang, some masters of the previous generation like Zhong Yunlong were the real deal. +-40 years ago he brought back to the mountain several methods that were scattered along several regions, wudang itself had very very little martial stuff before that. For a couple of decades learning under him was an option. That being said, in the early 2000's the disneylandtification was so hard that visiting wudang was no longer worthy. If I remember well Bagua-Xingyi arrived at the mountain in the 1930's with an exchange between Xu benshang and a li cunyi student. Same for taijiquan, it's a yang taijiquan version probably exchanged by Song weiyi when he was teaching sword to taijiquan people

Sharing a couple of screenshoots just to show that I spent time at the methods I criticized