Many of us know push hands is for us to acquire tingjin (hearing) skill and gradually progress to tungjin (understanding). But even after many years of practice many still fail to have any real success, why?
Of course there are many reasons for this lack of success and one of them is the lack of focus to understand the oncoming force. Very often we would ask how to neutralize this push and that push, what should we do if he does this or that...all these are focusing on techniques, and will never bring us closer to tungjin. We should pay more attention feeling the point of contact and 'listen' where the force is focus on. Initially, you will feel the pushing force is very widely spread on you but when your concentration improve and your feeling becomes more acute, the 'spread' will become smaller and smaller. It will reach a stage where you can clearly discern the contact point as small as a dot. At this stage, you will be able to neutralize big force by just a slight movement. Impossible? Picture this, a gladiator is pushing at you full force but using a pencil. The contact point is only the tip of the pencil. You don't need to turn the whole body to neutralise this big force through a small contact point, i.e. a pencil right? Just a slight turn to neutralize the touching point will do.
The next time you do push hands, focus on the touching point and try to find its center. If you focus attentive enough you may just find the dot.
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