The truth of the art known as Tai Chi Chuan is inherent in a symbol that nobody understands. If you read to the end of what I have written here you will understand that symbol, and it will enlighten your practice of the martial arts. I am speaking of that grand terminus, the symbol we call yin yang.
The symbol of the Yin Yang is two fishes swimming is night and day is good and evil is...ridiculous. The Yin Yang symbol has nothing to do with those poetic but cut off observations possible to our short lived species. The Ying Yang symbol is actually an empirical observation and quite mechanistic approach to our universe.
Everything in the universe is nothing more than a motor. A motor is defined as tension existing between two objects. Doesn't matter whether the tension is pull or push, just that the tension exists, and that is what holds our universe together and...keeps it apart.
An atom, with proton and electron, forever chasing and never catching, is but a motor. A cell, with sodium and potassium bubbling their happy little lives away, is but a motor. And this dichotomous viewpoint of the universe can be expanded to include all the combined motors, which are but machines, up to the repulsion and attraction of celestial bodies of the largest and most intense magnitude.
When you do Tai Chi you are pulsing energy up through the legs, across the generator, which is called the Tan Tien, and down the legs. Back and forth, alternating current, causing the generator to bubble its unique energy, called chi. Imagine the generator as a little cup of tea, being gently mixed, not to slosh over the sides, but to be mixed in yin yang motorific fashion, just enough to froth up a bit of steamy chi.
As you practice Tai Chi Chuna you become aware of the space that is your body, and the movement of awareness hollows the body to receive chi. Eventually the golden elixir that is called Chi fills the body and becomes responsive to the wishes of the student/philosopher. Mental clarity, endurance, strength, good health, all are the product of a body made to function as it was supposed to function.
Animals do Tai Chi, and wonder why we don't. Babies are possessed of Tai Chi, and robbed of it through the cultural expectations which accompany the aging process. And, the space of yourself being attained, you know the answer...who you were before you were born, and who you are after you die.
I sell nothing by telling you of this, I only search for people who can understand, and give away my knowledge. Can you have what I have said? Can you realize the truth of the eternal you that all love and none see? - 31491
The symbol of the Yin Yang is two fishes swimming is night and day is good and evil is...ridiculous. The Yin Yang symbol has nothing to do with those poetic but cut off observations possible to our short lived species. The Ying Yang symbol is actually an empirical observation and quite mechanistic approach to our universe.
Everything in the universe is nothing more than a motor. A motor is defined as tension existing between two objects. Doesn't matter whether the tension is pull or push, just that the tension exists, and that is what holds our universe together and...keeps it apart.
An atom, with proton and electron, forever chasing and never catching, is but a motor. A cell, with sodium and potassium bubbling their happy little lives away, is but a motor. And this dichotomous viewpoint of the universe can be expanded to include all the combined motors, which are but machines, up to the repulsion and attraction of celestial bodies of the largest and most intense magnitude.
When you do Tai Chi you are pulsing energy up through the legs, across the generator, which is called the Tan Tien, and down the legs. Back and forth, alternating current, causing the generator to bubble its unique energy, called chi. Imagine the generator as a little cup of tea, being gently mixed, not to slosh over the sides, but to be mixed in yin yang motorific fashion, just enough to froth up a bit of steamy chi.
As you practice Tai Chi Chuna you become aware of the space that is your body, and the movement of awareness hollows the body to receive chi. Eventually the golden elixir that is called Chi fills the body and becomes responsive to the wishes of the student/philosopher. Mental clarity, endurance, strength, good health, all are the product of a body made to function as it was supposed to function.
Animals do Tai Chi, and wonder why we don't. Babies are possessed of Tai Chi, and robbed of it through the cultural expectations which accompany the aging process. And, the space of yourself being attained, you know the answer...who you were before you were born, and who you are after you die.
I sell nothing by telling you of this, I only search for people who can understand, and give away my knowledge. Can you have what I have said? Can you realize the truth of the eternal you that all love and none see? - 31491
About the Author:
Al Case has practiced the martial arts over over 4O years. He has written hundreds of articles and had a column in Inside Karate. His work is available in a free ebook at Monster Martial Arts.
