The truth of Tai Chi is inherent in a symbol that nobody understands. If you read to the end of this article you will understand that symbol, and it will enlighten your practice of the martial arts. I am speaking of that grand terminus, the yin yang symbol.
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 a motor. A motor is defined as tension between two objects. Doesn't matter whether the tension is push or pull, just that the tension is, and that is what holds our universe together and...keeps it apart.
A simple little atom, with its protons and electrons, forever chasing and never catching each other, is but a motor. A cell, with sodium and potassium bubbling their happy little lives away, is just a simple, little motor. And this dichotomous viewpoint of the universe can be expanded to include all the combined motors, even through the confusion of machines, up to the repulsion and attraction of celestial bodies that sweep through the universe.
When you do Tai Chi you are pulsing energy up the legs, across the generator, and down the legs. Back and forth, alternating current, causing the generator, called the Tan Tien, to bubble its unique energy, called chi. Imagine the generator as a little cup of tea, being swirled, not to slosh, but to be mixed in yin yang motorific fashion, just enough to froth just 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? - 30300
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 a motor. A motor is defined as tension between two objects. Doesn't matter whether the tension is push or pull, just that the tension is, and that is what holds our universe together and...keeps it apart.
A simple little atom, with its protons and electrons, forever chasing and never catching each other, is but a motor. A cell, with sodium and potassium bubbling their happy little lives away, is just a simple, little motor. And this dichotomous viewpoint of the universe can be expanded to include all the combined motors, even through the confusion of machines, up to the repulsion and attraction of celestial bodies that sweep through the universe.
When you do Tai Chi you are pulsing energy up the legs, across the generator, and down the legs. Back and forth, alternating current, causing the generator, called the Tan Tien, to bubble its unique energy, called chi. Imagine the generator as a little cup of tea, being swirled, not to slosh, but to be mixed in yin yang motorific fashion, just enough to froth just 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? - 30300
About the Author:
Al Case has analyzed the martial arts 4O+ plus 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.
