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After spending a year in basic training I entered the first step of Sundo practice at the beginning of the summer of 1949. I did not know anything about the first step or what it was about. I only practiced what the master ordered me to do. I can perfectly remember all the steps and contents of the practice because I had to repeat each principle and movement hundreds of times and master them with my body before I was allowed to move on to the next level. Even if it took me days, months, or years to make it mine, I just did it. The first step is called Joong-gi danbup.
I have described all content and forms of danbup in a separate book. For now, I will explain the concept of the content briefly. The Dao master explained Joong-gi danbup in detail as he told me to practice it.
Quoting his words unchanged, Joong-gi danbup is "a practice in which you can move your body as you intend. The principle of this practice is in the Joong-gi. The 'one' energy of the universe is Central energy which is the synthesis of yin and yang. The Central energy creates and changes everything. The 'one' energy of humans is the Central energy, the synthesis of yin and yang, which creates, completes and changes the mind and body."
"Joong-gi danbup of the human body is like the ha-do (ancient numbers of the universe). Joong-gi danbup begins from the central 5 and 10 earth energy and functions through the five elements 相生creating principle."
"The spleen and stomach are the central earth energy. The synthesis of yin and yang activates the three processes of supply, unity, and maintenance. Breathe deeply and calmly by concentrating your heart on the center of the lower danjun and the central earth energy will bear fruit. This is the form of bringing yin and yang into equilibrium and the basic form of nurturing the Central energy. ‘Protecting the middle and packing the one’ shelters the one energy and protects Central energy. The proper attitude for going into Sundo is to shelter the one energy and protect central energy."
“Continue this practice every day beginning from the 丑Chook hour(1~3 am) to the 午Oh hour(11 am~1 pm).”
This is how he explained it to me. I was 14 years old and his words were difficult to understand. But after more than 20 years of practice I realized that the practcie time principle was based on the interpretation of 丹理danli (dan principle) through the principle of changes.
At that time he would make me do only one of the 50 items in Joong-gi danbup. He would demonstrate the motion (posture) and make me follow it immediately. I would repeat the posture hundreds of times as I thought of its meaning. When he approved that I completed the motion (posture) then he would teach me the next one. The fifty danbups have 10 root danbups and each root has 5 stem danbups. So the sum comes to 50 danbups.
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