Intent is a funny thing. It can be obvious or subtle, external or internal, intended or reactionary. It can and will differ from one person to another. And changing your intent to experiment with both your flow and insight can be inspiring.
This all stems from a question I asked at our 2nd degree Saturday morning class. The answer I got inspired me to vary the intent of my "eyes" on a particular move in Lao Gar. I took this idea to open training and applied it to see what would happen (thank you Sidai Bjorkquist for helping me). Well crap, it was like I got jolted into a new way of seeing things. And so now I am going to look at my intent with different eyes, so to speak.
This is just another lesson for me about ego. What I thought was correct was only that way because it was serving my own personal idea of something. My intent in this move was serving my idea of what I wanted this technique to be, and that directly affected my next series of moves, making things "chunky". Just a minor adjustment of where I am looking has smoothed this move out, allowing me to feel the move instead of see the move. Cool. I get it now, I hope. But where else do I need to do this, only time and practice will tell, as well as guidance from those with truer understanding of the art of Kung Fu.
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