About the secrets of Tao-Tai Chi Chuan
The secrets of Tai Chi Chuan?
There is no secret.
There is only a secret behind the secret.
A secret is too kind a word for something we don't understand yet.
Time goes, you say? Ah no.
Alas, Time stays, we go.
A.Dobson-The paradox of time.
Nothing puzzles more than time and space.
But
Tao Tai Chi Chuan emphasizes the essence of change rather than time.
Tao Tai Chi Chuan emphasizes the essence of relations rather than space.
Tai Chi Chuan emphasizes the essence of change and relations.
Keep in mind: "Everything has its equal and it’s opposite!"
We should follow the Tai Chi principles of opposites:
When you move upward the mind must be aware of downward.
When you move downward, the mind must be aware of upward.
When moving forward, the mind thinks of moving backward.
When shifting to the left side,
the mind should simultaneously notice the right side.
When shifting to the right side,
the mind should simultaneously notice the left side.
The center is the
empty space. It’s a meeting and a
changing point.
Secret number 1:
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Everything is difficult before it becomes easy.
Patience is your greatest treasure (Chinese proverb).
Secret number 2:
There are 3 ways to learn Tai Chi Chuan:
1° Exercise.
2° Exercise.
3° Exercise.
Secret number 3:
Back to basics.
Secret number 4:
Be happy,
nothing is under control.
Secret number 5:
Keep it simple.
Go your own way, take a walk on the wild side.
Taoistic Classics: About Utopia
Let your community be small, with only a few people;
Keep tools in abundance, but do not depend upon them;
Appreciate your life and be content with your home;
Sail boats and ride horses, but don't go too far;
Keep weapons and armour, but do not employ them;
Let everyone read and write,
Eat well and make beautiful things.
Live peacefully and delight in your own society;
Dwell within cock-crow of your neighbours,
But maintain your independence from them.
Lao Tse
About time
Let not time deceive you. You cannot conquer time.
(W.H. Auden)
About Time and Eternity
If time is a flow, then eternity is the stream itself. When we watch the water flowing past, somewhere between the source and the mouth, everything is in perpetual motion. The water comes and goes, nothing remains. But when we see the stream itself, we see the whole and we know that nothing disappears and nothing perishes. All the water is present at the same time and every drop comes to every place, even if each particle disappears from view at every moment if we focus our perception only on a given point. The water does not change, and the stream does not change. The source is still the source, even if the water flowing from it at a given moment has reached the ocean.
Bron: Gerard Bodifee, Meant to Be, to be published by Yale University Press.
We can read sophisticated books to understand the secret of
Tai Chi Chuan or the secrets of Taoism.
No problem.
But according to me there is no secret.
There's just the secret behind a secret.
A secret is too kind a word;
it's a euphemism for something I don't understand,
for something I don't understand yet.
The way I think about it now Taoism is only a kind of longing,
it's a wish to feel at home,
always and everywhere.
For some people Tai Chi Chuan can be a brilliant tool
of Taoism for on the road.
The truth can never be bigger than my head and than my heart,
which has to understand that truth.
Take care of yourself, may God bless you and thanks for visiting us.
Walter.