What Game am I Playing in 2020?
2020 is just around the corner! Congratulations, contestants, for making it this far! Things are starting to get interesting! We’re pulling into the finish line on yet another ten year cycle. Maybe you are celebrating 2019 like a champion. Or maybe the last year...Wei Wu Wei, Interrupting the Trance
Wikipedia: Wu wei (Chinese: 無爲; pinyin: wú wéi) is a concept literally meaning “inexertion”, “inaction”, or “effortless action”.[1][2] Wu wei emerged in the Spring and Autumn period, and from Confucianism, to become an important...Feel First, then Do. Opening the Eye of Flesh.
“Push. No push.” “Punch. No punch.” In my many years studying with him, Grandmaster William C. C. Chen would often exhort us to let go of excessive effort with paradoxical words like that. Taijiquan is filled with paradox, which can be...Updated Glossary of Terms I Often Use
This is my latest attempt to provide a reference for words I often use in my writing/teaching.
"Pointing With Everything"
Marilyn from Albuquerque is reading Taijiquan: Through the Western Gate and sent me an email. “I am, of course, going around madly pointing things! If I really point my tailbone down and my crown up, I actually FEEL my centre of gravity kind of float into my lower tan...
