I am going to return to another author previously recommended for this one:
“Cheng Hsin T’ui Shou: The Art of Effortless Power” by Peter Ralston.
The first couple of chapters deal with the principles of Cheng Hsin. He then follows with a chapter on “A Consideration of Ability:” This paragraph describes what the author tries to bring about in this chapter: “What we need in order to create ability is freedom from how we presently think and relate to the matter of ability. Beyond this freedom we require an understanding of how ability comes about – in anybody. Then we must align with this, by moving our thinking, experience, and action to a ‘place’ that accesses ability, or creates a completely new way of being hat naturally realizes ability – probably both.”
After that he moves into the techniques of Cheng Hsin and the rest of the book focuses on the techniques but it is important to note that much like my book on using empty space for self defence “Now You See It, Now You Don’t” the techniques are merely delivery systems for the principles and the principles used are what should be focused on when looking at what is being trained by the techniques.
This book is a great follow up to his first book because you get to see examples of the use of the principles but remember that the printed page can only show so much.
An excellent book and one I think is best read after his first book: “Cheng Hsin: The Principles of Effortless power” previously recommended.