Tai Chi - A Way of Life

For quite some time now, I've been an avid reader of the Dynamic Balancing Tai Chi blog. I discovered the site few years back - just as I surf my way through the lists of blogs in Blogger_Com. Their messages convey the serenely strong and yet simple principles of Tai Chi. I think it's beautiful and will be such a waste not to share with you and explore it with me.

Since I used to be a martial arts enthusiast, that is of course before the bulging tummies, I stopped and read few posts and been a regular visitor since then. I learned that basic principle of the Tai Chi is acceptance and the power to seize an opposing force by means of a peaceful retaliation or better, avoidance. It is pushing the principle that you can not always fight violence with violence but rather use the opposing force against itself. It is I guess the most basic and fundamental of all forms of martial arts.

Like language, Tai Chi becomes a poetry of motion. Not merely a symphony of muscles and bones but is a principle of self-defense. A principle not just against a violent oppressor but against issues implicating one's life. One example is marriage, my old grandparents, they told me when I got married, 'this has been an age old advise for your marriage to work: in cases you and your wife need to argue something, like the river that flows freely towards the ocean, so should both of you accept and listen to each other's heart and work hand in hand towards a resolution.

As Confucius had said, "Like the water that fits itself into the vessel, so should one fits himself into any circumstances".

Allow me to give you a glimpse further into Tai Chi from one of the teacher's 2001 posts:

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Friday, 14 December 2001

Yes

Try being accommodating and receptive for a day. Say "Yes!" to everything: agree, accept, approve, receive. Yield and yield and yield. Let those barriers soften and fade. Be fearless.
(From http://dynamicbalancingtaichi.blogspot.com)

I encourage you to visit the site as well. They might enlighten your thoughts and spirit.

 

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Lingua Franca

Because English is not my regular language, some points I needed to say is wrapped in my native tongue which then is translated into English. My English teacher used to tell me among other students that we need to think English in our heads in order to speak it effectively. It would be like having a pre-processor of everything before you write or speak the language.

Their are points in our heads that are just hard enough to explain thoroughly in English that, as it turns out, misses some significant points. The feeling is like trying to set foot on the sand while your body is floating on a body of water above your waist. Desperate enough to afoot against the current, you hover and momentum is just so difficult to achieve.

Nevertheless, learning the matter is somewhat an adventure. All my posts are experimental. It will usually take me several re-readings of my posts that I find them either awkward to read and needing reconstructions.

I welcome criticisms. After all, this is just part of my learning. After all, like everything in my work in IT, nobody taught me stuff. After multiple mistakes and discoveries, I can say that I'm doing well and just like any other endeavors, I'm beginning to set foot firmly.

(See not even the picture has something to do with what I'm talking about here) BUT, it's for you to find out the relevance, HEHEHEHE! Let's just say some stuff need to learn are tough as a game and we need to lighten up. :o)

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