Vimana Vajra

Cheng Yu Lung's Yin Energy Dragon Shape Baguazhang is an intermediate-level school of martial Baguazhang that emphasizes the dark, heavy, and sinking qualities of water while teaching a unique variant of the Dragon Shape as expressed through the Thunder Gua or Trigram. Rather than the explosive and athletic nature of the Dragon, who revels in open space, directing force upward, the dragon energy in this school of Baguazhang is that of a giant Sea Serpent.  No less violent or abrupt, but tending toward crushing and pulling downward. The Sea Serpent is thick and sinuous, rising up only to come crashing down. The Yin energy is not of the typical soft and yielding force but that of sinking, submerging, and purposely holding under.  Water over Thunder In my teachings of Daoist metaphysics, this set constitutes Water over Thunder in the I-Ching, or Hexagram #3. It denotes difficulties and even mortal danger. The Haxagram itself (six lines, the top a split yin line, and the second an...