Lately I got interested in jings or jins, actually it was a specific type of jing that you don’t hear about as often. I gather there are plenty of these.
I recall reading an interesting article in Tai Chi magazine that talked about all sorts of martial qi accomplishment, but without too much details on practice. Then at the very end — I mean the final sentence — they dropped the bombshell, the special key to it all apparently. “Learn Pecking jin.” (!) Since then I’ve not managed to discover what that’s all about. 
Anyway about a week ago I tried to see if this other jin I heard about was very obscure, little known. Surprise, I easily found several good online articles that mentioned it in the context of an overall discussion of the important jins. These articles ran to many pages but I printed and read through it all.
Now tonight I happen to be re-reading the beginning of Mastering Yang Style Taijiquan by Fu Zhongwen (translated by Louis Swain). Casually buried in a recap of Yang Chengfu’s verbal teachings, I find these words which I parse to make my point:
>>>”Where the intention reaches, the qi reaches; where the qi reaches, the jin will certainly follow. However, the joints… must also be song, open, and smooth and stable…”<<<
A nice simple formula for success in taiji quan, if one can build upon this framework with a time-tested method of doing as little as possible, in a precise manner, using tools that no one else can see, except by their effects….
