Justin’s Path To The Answer

One of the big questions that some of us ask is, “What is my purpose? Why am I here?” If we could have been aware enough at a young and innocent age, we would have noticed that we were being shown the answer. So here we are many years later, and we are now asking the important questions. Do we feel any closer to the answer? For those of us who do T’ai Chi Chih, in our time of quiet, the answer seems very simple and clear. The very words that describe our discipline hold the key: Chih means “knowledge of,” and T’ai Chi means “the Supreme Ultimate.” That is our purpose: to have knowledge of the Supreme Ultimate. When we are quiet, we come into that harmony within ourselves. The simple movements that Justin Stone originated lead us to our question’s answer.

There is a wonderful Sutra that begins, “From the state of emptiness…” It clearly states that we must have that as a beginning point if we are going to know or do anything meaningful. For most of our lives we take precious little time to experience that “state of emptiness.” We are usually busy with an inordinate number of things, just busy enough to stay off balance. And yet, that state of emptiness is what we want. Somehow we don’t know how to find it. Justin’s gift to us, of TCC, allows us to experience the state of emptiness. We have a way to come into knowing everything important to us. The movements, in their simplicity, bring us gently into the experience of emptiness. We find it is our natural state, and we have to be as simple as children to know it.

Remember being in awe of everything (as opposed to bothered by everything)? When we do our TCC practice we are at peace with life, knowing that all is in order. TCC allows us to breathe and be in that moment of peace. Now is a good time to do some TCC. Watch the breath; stay in the flow of it. In that moment of doing TCC, we remember watching Justin do TCC, if only on a DVD, and we feel peace and wellbeing. We are mesmerized because life becomes easy in that moment, and Justin shares it with us. All we have to do is allow ourselves to follow him. This invitation allows us to breathe as if we have never breathed before, as if we have never experienced life before this moment. Because of his deep caring, Justin loves and shares the Chi.