There are two pairs of seemingly contradictory and conflicting principles in Zen meditation: relaxing the waist and pulling the back, relaxing the neck and lifting the head. Many beginners in Zen meditation are very confused - the head should be lifted up, but the neck should be relaxed; the waist should be relaxed, but the back should be pulled upwards outward. They all feel at a loss. If we look at it from a Western training system, this is indeed difficult to resolve, isn't it a typical "both-and" situation? But if we understand the holistic nature of traditional Chinese martial arts, we can understand these seemingly contradictory pairs of principles in Zen meditation. And the method of resolving the contradiction is not in the waist nor the back; not in the neck nor the head. It is in: intention. The so-called "use intention, not force" is the method of resolving these two pairs of contradictions and achieving unity. Just as in many things, we always try to find solutions within the things themselves. But we often fail to realize that the solution to the problem is not within the things themselves.
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Is the method of Zen meditation self-contradictory?
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