Still going…Tai Chi course continued

September 8th, 2003 at 12:00am

Day 8 of the Tai Chi course. We’ve come full circle with the Tai Chi sequence, literally. We have now completed the clockwise postures and combined them with the anti-clockwise moves so we’ve learned the complete set. It is supposed to take 40 minutes from start to finish. This morning we did it in 28 minutes which means we are going a bit too fast. It will be interesting to see if I am able to continue this on my own once the course is finished. You always have good intentions of course, but life does seem to get in the way, know what I mean?

If I do go into a 10-day meditation in a monestary after this, I will surely be able to use all the things I learned here.

‘Both the tragedy and dilemma of modern humanity is that it has internalized the psychophysiology of emergency, flight and fight, on a global scale. In the biological, psychological, spiritual, political, social, and economic structures and institutions, humankind is mindlessly ruled by fear and aggression, creating a self-perpetuating and self-feeding emergency situation spiraling out of control and draining the psychological and physical energy reserves both on the human individual and humanity as a whole. Only stillness can provide the antidote within the person and within the civilization. Only meditation gives us the tools to change our current habitual state of stress and emergency into one of harmony. Thus the practice of meditation, in general, takes an immense relevance for humanity, giving us the ability to control our physiological and psychological states through relaxation.’

-Warriors of Stillness – Meditative Traditions in the Chinese Martial Arts, Jan Diepersloot.

Can someone translate that into fourth grade English and send it to George W? Oh, never mind..

Videotaping my sequence for feedback

Keith and Stewart pushing hands

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