T’ai Chi Chih Thoughts

In T’ai Chi Chih practice we can continually cultivate ultimate refinement in our performance of the movements, within and without. It is an honorable goal to attempt to surpass your teacher(s) in performance and knowing.

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In teaching, we can continually qualify ourselves so that we are not likely to represent a limitation for our students. During the learning process they will encounter their own limitations, which we can help them clear. The teacher should never be a source of additional baggage for the student to have to carry.

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Before we can truly teach a thing we must know it. Otherwise our efforts toward sharing will be largely superficial and meaningless. When we know a thing, teaching is naturally effortless and potent.