The characters/ideograms mean, “three treasures of Buddhism; Buddha, sutras and priesthood; Jing, Qi and Shin in Chinese.”
The Three Treasures - Jing, Qi and Shen - are references to the energies or essences of life we are all born with and have the ability to cultivate through the moving meditative practices of martial arts with specificity toward the Chinese practice of Qigong and Tai Chi Chuan. The English translations, very inexact, are “Essence, Vitality and Spirit.”
The practice of Qigong, etc. provide a physical, mental and spiritual method to transform Jing into Qi and into Shen. It also allows us to transform Shen into Qi into Jing as a means of life generation. See below for additional information:
http://taoism.about.com/od/internalalchemy/a/three_treasures.htm
When a martial artists grasps and practices the fundamental principles of martial systems they learn to use the three treasures through the many forms of transmutation such as “shu-ha-ri” and “shin-gi-tai,” etc. To fully develop and make full use of the spiritual part of those principles practice is about transformation of mind, body and spirit where sanbou helps us achieve all three with emphasis on spirit as philosophy and theory that also drive the other two principles of physiokinetics and technique. This works in reverse as well, i.e. physiokinetics and technique to achieve a philosophy and theory of a wholehearted practice of the disciplines of martial systems.
The perceptions of linear paths in study must be transformed or transmutated into a more holistic interconnected way of life, training and practice. This is a bases for the belief, study and practice of yin, yang and void. Even in the wholehearted singularity of application of any martial system you find the one, that comes from the two (yin-yang) that cannot exist and form the myriad of things that is nature, the Universe, without that which binds the two into one, the void.
The three treasures interconnect with the three levels of the body that are also symbolized in the Trigrams of the Chinese classic of the I Ching, i.e. Jing to the lower torso, Qi to the middle or hara of the body and Shen to the upper or heart of the body. These interconnect with the jodan, chudan and gedan in martial arts where used to describe area’s of the body along with the application of techniques. In addition this also connects with the spiritual side as studied through the ken-po goku-i, i.e. the hara, the heart and the mind, etc.
When you train and practice you also see, hear and feel by the applications of shu-ha-ri, i.e. shu as the lower, ha as the middle and ri as the upper or higher/highest levels of training and practice. Then there is the lower, middle and upper concepts within shin-gi-tai.
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