The Way through Baguazhang - 八卦掌道

The journey to Bagua Shan is fraught with difficulty. In the first part of the journey it is difficult because those on it, do not even know they are on it. And this is because there is hardly nothing written on it. If there had been, most of the martial arts literature of the nineteenth century is buried in what nowadays would best be described as fairy-tongue. Most martial artists these days are...

While the first four reasons were explained in podcast 99. 8 Baguazhang questions answered with tea. The fifth is explained here. Reason 1: it is Taoist coming from within China. 2: practitioner focuses mostly within themselves. 3: the art is mostly self-defensive. 4: it is self-healing. And for the 5th reason you will have to listen to this podcast to find out!... Liked what you heard & want to c...

It happens to everybody but few get to learn from Mother Nature her lesson... Liked what you heard & want to connect with me? Join me at… linkedin.com/in/peterhainzl/

Enjoy 8 different type of tea while pondering over the 8 questions i typically get asked about Baguazhang martial arts... Liked what you heard & want to connect with me? Join me at… linkedin.com/in/peterhainzl/

Avocados become popular and I make a song and dance over it. Ae?! You be the judge... Liked what you heard & want to connect with me? Join me at… linkedin.com/in/peterhainzl/

The pattern to our lives will emerge when we know ourselves... Liked what you heard & want to connect with me? Join me at… linkedin.com/in/peterhainzl/

The 37th hexagram or gua of the I-Ching is called Jia Ren, and here are the first 5 spiritual shackles blocking the way... Liked what you heard & want to connect with me? Join me at… linkedin.com/in/peterhainzl/

So here we are in the Weiqi game: The place where - how we end things - is most critical to the successful outcome of the game. Unlike real war, where people tend to actually die a hell of a lot, the business of business warfare is like a grinding millstone that never ever ends. Yes, we are sold the dream of victory and success through wealth and riches, but those materialistic goals tend to leave...

The stones go clank on the weiqi board. Or do they go clink. Some people argue that they go clonk. Or was that clunk? However, which way, a player hears the sound of stones being placed on the board, they can be as sweet as a gentle stream out in the middle of nowhere. And just hearing myself, say these things, makes me wonder about the significance of the thoughts I am sharing with you. Perhaps t...

Upside, downside, it's all about being profitable in the desert... Liked what you heard & want to connect with me? Join me at… linkedin.com/in/peterhainzl/

Truth be told, I did not go super-niche with selling loose leaf tea. I became super-niche as a result of Australia’s unique set of circumstances. To give a good example, I need to firstly give a disclaimer and let you know that you are welcome to believe or not to believe but the story I give next is true. No embellishments or special effects. I have a very good friend out in greater western Sydne...

Recently, in order to bring more financial stability into my household, I have begun applying for jobs online. It’s been sixteen years, since I last worked for someone else for a steady paye cheque. And boy, has it been a rude experience so far. I should have listened to the taxi driver, one evening a decade ago, when he was driving me from Chatswood to Castle Hill. Sometimes it’s true, when they...

Welcome to the world of the Super Niche. According to internet sources a.k.a. Google and their competitors, selling loose leaf tea is in the same category of niche-ness as being an uncut diamond smuggler living his lifestyle dream in the jungles of west Africa. Who would have guessed, that the second most drunk beverage on earth after water, had become super-niche. On one level, it means that as a...

The life of a Weiqi master goes like this: The masters have a game of Weiqi. At the end they put the board and stones away. And spend the rest of the evening reminiscing about how great or poorly they played the game. The end. Between games, the Weiqi master does not exist. He or she lives as a dream within the mind of a person doing a nine to five job that they may or may not like. The life of a...

Around about the time, when I get that thought in my head of why are things getting so hard again, in my life, people start asking me, “What do I do?” I usually reply with, “What do I do what?” To which I get the proper question of “What do I do for a living?” I already knew that that was what they meant, but I wanted to be sure. After all, when a person commits to living in the now of now, that q...

Once upon a time I visited a Japanese Shiatsu massage centre, actually run by Japanese with delicate Japanese sensibilities. Originally I went there because I had a good couple of hours to spare and I wanted something different to the usual Chinese or Thai massages available in shopping malls. I remember as I walked through the main door, that I saw beside reception a glass teapot full of Genmaich...

Despite all the dismissals and finger pointing as superstitious witchcraft nonsense by scientists, they too want to know the future. They too, are starting to engage in fortune-telling and prophecy, as witnessed by the growing number of articles on quantum computing and its ability to predict the future. And no matter how much these geniuses in the ivory tower say they know their maths, they too w...

The Art of Weiqi (Go/Baduk) war is more than just surrounding stones on a board with yet more stones. The game is about finding an opponent's tipping point and then gently nudging your opponent over the line. Ideally it is done in such a way that the opponent must react to you move with maximum firepower while all you did was put a stone on the board. How this is achieved depends on how well you k...

Going against the herd in letting go of entrepreneurship and becoming a real businessman...Liked what you heard & want to connect with me? Join me at… linkedin.com/in/peterhainzl/

A thank you story to my brothers and sisters at Wilder Newswell Talkshow and Mo. Enjoy... Liked what you heard & want to connect with me? Join me at… linkedin.com/in/peterhainzl/

Does Genmai-sama deposit his spiritual royalties with the Bank of Hell?... Liked what you heard & want to connect with me? Join me at… linkedin.com/in/peterhainzl/

The game of Go is an abstract board game for two players in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. Weiqi is the Chinese name and Baduk is the Korean name of the same game. For most people, who are aware of the game, the game is the dominion of geeks, nerds and unkept guys who need to take better care of their physical health. To truly play Weiqi well, the mind (through the...

It is said that the way of bushido is found in death. I never believed this statement until... During one Weiqi game played years ago... A certain stone was placed upon the board. Placed upon the board with the traditional two finger placement, it went clunk! And I knew that The Rubicon had finally been crossed. And with that, the dragon that had placed the stone on the Weiqi board quietly sipped...

The flow of positive qi at its greatest is like a raging wind bringing fresh clean air into a stale house. When a person has internalized the art of war, whether it be through Suntzu or Sunbin or both, life for the person takes on a whole new perspective that makes the Middle Kingdom insignificant to the larger scheme of things. I had not yet internalized them, but by 1994 through the Heart of Afr...

Mankind desires peace in his time, but the evidence shows that the ideal of peace is not actually what he wants. Mankind finds peace to be like an endless paradise that is slowly turning into drought. The summer of abundance becomes the space in which boredom sets in. And he actually starts to crave the uncertainty of war. Mankind does not explicitly say so, but rather wraps this desire in positiv...