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Does this tend to happen in other disciplines? I'm not sure I'm good enough at anything else to evaluate that.

Aug 30, 2019

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I'm sure that it does. Look at the crossover in approaches in different fighting systems, for example. There are bound to be fundamentals that, once understood, naturally point in a particular direction.

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That's my feeling, too. I wonder if there is some good writing on this out there.

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Seems like something in your wheelhouse(s)

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Yes, but my personal interest here is in natural discovery of technique, rather than formality/informality of said practice. Question is why my dicking around and accidentally discovering established tantric technique seems to happen very naturally, w/o teaching inputs.

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It's an interesting question.

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might have ideas/thoughts? Cool e.g: butterfly guard is established technique in BJJ. Bears do it naturally when they fight & play. I guess it must be a natural solution given the parameters. A sort of Schelling point, maybe?

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Yes, I’ve seen this happen repeatedly. Tantric practice arises naturally as a result of Sutric practice, it’s one of several possible outcomes. You see it historically and the same pattern repeating locally with individuals and groups. It’s really interesting.

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You can formalise what you discovered informally by going one level abstract to pratices and understanding them in terms of principle and function. That’s why I keep banging on about principle and function :-)