Chapter 1258. Mediating (3)
Contemplation meant the observation of oneself.
One must separate one's consciousness from one's own body as if it belonged to someone else and calmly analyze all the changes and flows within. That was contemplation.
In a more modern parlance, one could say one was checking to see if the energy in their body was flowing okay, if their actions had deviated from their intentions, or if there had been changes that went unnoticed.
To a martial artist who had climbed past a certain realm, contemplation like this was a must. After all, it was an act of thoroughly inspecting oneself.
Sometimes people called this process meditation or wall gazing.
People had given it many names over the years, but whatever their names were, all these things had one thing in common: conversation. More specifically, a conversation between one’s body and mind.
It was a meeting with one’s true self where external factors had been completely removed.
Look past all these fancy words and concepts, and it was simply a process for a martial artist to analyze and inspect their body and mind, similar to how a doctor scanned a patient’s body through an MRI machine.
Right now, Kang Jin-Ho was contemplating. And he was in the middle of discovering something different about himself.
‘What’s this?’
He began his contemplation out of habit. And that allowed him to realize that his body had changed from yesterday.
The boundary of his dantian... had become indistinct?