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 Yin Yang symbol is two fishes swimming is night and day is good and evil is...poppycock. The Yin Yang symbol has nothing to do with those poetic but truncated observations possible to our short lived species. The Ying Yang symbol is actually a quite mechanistic approach and empirical observation 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.
An atom, with electron and proton, forever chasing and never catching, is a motor. A cell, with potassium and sodium bubbling their happy little lives away, is a motor. And this dichotomous viewpoint of the universe can be extended through all the combined motors, which are called machines, up to the attraction and repulsion of celestial bodies of the most intense and largest 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 do Tai Chi you become aware of the space that your body occupies in space, and awareness hollows out the receptacle for this chi. Eventually the golden elixir, summoned far more efficiently and efficaciously than any ancient alchemist might believe, fills the body, becomes responsive to the wish and desire of the student/philosopher. Good health, strength and endurance, mental clarity, all are the product of a body made to function the way it was designed to be functioned.
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 writing this work, I only search for people of like viewpoint, and give away my knowledge. Can you have what I say here? Can you realize the eternal you that all love and none see? - 31373
The Yin Yang symbol is two fishes swimming is night and day is good and evil is...poppycock. The Yin Yang symbol has nothing to do with those poetic but truncated observations possible to our short lived species. The Ying Yang symbol is actually a quite mechanistic approach and empirical observation 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.
An atom, with electron and proton, forever chasing and never catching, is a motor. A cell, with potassium and sodium bubbling their happy little lives away, is a motor. And this dichotomous viewpoint of the universe can be extended through all the combined motors, which are called machines, up to the attraction and repulsion of celestial bodies of the most intense and largest 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 do Tai Chi you become aware of the space that your body occupies in space, and awareness hollows out the receptacle for this chi. Eventually the golden elixir, summoned far more efficiently and efficaciously than any ancient alchemist might believe, fills the body, becomes responsive to the wish and desire of the student/philosopher. Good health, strength and endurance, mental clarity, all are the product of a body made to function the way it was designed to be functioned.
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 writing this work, I only search for people of like viewpoint, and give away my knowledge. Can you have what I say here? Can you realize the eternal you that all love and none see? - 31373
About the Author:
Al Case has practiced the martial arts 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.
