From Summer Camp 2008

Tai Chi - The easiest way of living

Among the many problems experienced by new students to Taichi is they often complain they can not remember the moves. Because Taiji quan relaxes the human body and dulls the thought processes, the moves are often easily forgotten still the essential advantage of Taiji quan i.e. the meditative experience is remembered. As it is absorbed into their being.Here is the beauty of Tai chi chuan. The inner experience outweighs the outer of the newcomer and also as it becomes an unfamiliar experience, the brain fights it this is because doesn't understand and may not define the experience by looking at other experiences. The brain desires to understand to link to a past experience also to commit that experience to memory. Now we have a big problem. The new student feels exceptional when class however when working to relate their experience to others, locate it difficult to call it into words what that experience was, because essentially previously it was an experience that was felt not deciphered by way of the mind.Your practice should refresh you; not burden only more important aspects to remember. True understanding in Taiji quan brings a deep wholeness for your essential being. Not another memory associated with the intellect. There will be no should remember it - it is there...While you practise let thoughts come and make them pass through. Become the watcher. Be indifferent into the thoughts.

Once you listen or read word of wisdom, don't try to remember them as well as meaning may possibly be lost. Let them wash over you, cleaning your mind, emptying it. Don t let thoughts make your mind just like a strong wind ruffling the surface of water causing confusion and doubt, be still such as a calm lake. The goal of meditation is to get rid of the imagination. Tai Chi empties our thought. Never burden yourself with more words or thought processes.See from a deep inner self, let that wisdom travel to chose to change and empower your essential self, the genuine inner you. Forget for your moment your outer self, your conscious self or perhaps a born of your respective upbringing, your surroundings and moulded by others' expectation of you and the you need to become.Tai chi chuan given the chance can change your life, for those who allow it to. This can be true, I know more than a shadow of doubt since i am living a history of that.Being of service to others by passing on the teaching I was so privileged to obtain from my Master and spiritual mentor. I am living a lifetime of happiness and satisfaction beyond my wildest dreams. We have found my personal Dao.Perhaps I have been lucky i really believe I had the sense to get the Master once i met him and intuitively felt the fact that was exactly what really should be doing. I didn't realize why, it felt right but i didn't deny that, or subdue it with logic. I followed my heart although the good and the bad times and allowed my inner self to flower. Taichi Taichi