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TAI CHI is the art of moving meditation or STILLNESS WITHIN ACTION. On how to achieve this, the ancients taught: I CHING, HEXAGRAM 52: KEEPING STILL, MOUNTAIN
Mountain Upon Mountain: KEEPING STILL. Keeping his back still so that he no longer feels his body. Thus the superior man does not permit his thoughts to go beyond his situation. True quiet means keeping still when the time has come to keep still, and going forward when the time has come to go forward. In this way rest and movement are in agreement with the demands of the times, and thus there is light in life.
I CHING, HEXAGRAM 50, THE CALDRON
Fire Over Wood: The image of the CALDRON. Thus the superior man consolidates his fate by making his position correct The fate of fire deponds on wood; as long as there is wood below, the fire burns above. it is the same in human life; there is in man likewise a fate that lends power to his life. And if he succeeds in assigning the right place to life and to fate, thus bringing the two into harmony, he puts his fate on a firm footing. These words contain hints about the fostering of life as handed on by or oral tradition in the secret teachings of Chinese yoga. (Wilhelm/Baynes edition)
I CHING, HEXAGRAM 17, FOLLOWING
Joy in Movement - Thunder in the Lake The firm comes and places itself under the yielding. Movement and joyousness: Great success and perserverance without blame; thus one is followed by the whole world. Great indeed is the time of FOLLOWING.
"Ren" means to perservere, forbear, and tolerate--with a special connotation of self-restraint, self-control and sacrifice. The Chinese character is composed of "heart" with a "knife" over (or through) it, REN is a cardinal virtue in the Chinese martial arts.
Set the highest standards for your practice! Here is a great adage outside of the Tai Chi Classics and the best functional definition of "Kung-Fu" in English-- by one of the first and most renowned western teachers of eastern wisdom: Consciousness is a symptom of dis-ease. All that move well moves without will. All skillfulness, all strain, all intention is contrary to ease. Practice a thousand times, and it becomes difficult; A thousand thousand, and it becomes easy; a thousand thousand times a thousand thousand, and it is no longer Thou that doeth it, but It that doeth itself through thee. Not until then is that which is done well done. Aleister Crowley, 1913, Founder, Ordo Templi Orientis
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