The Vital Force Archive
Forty years of The Vital Force (1985-2025), the journal of the T’ai Chi Chih community. Search for a word, a teacher, a movement or a place, or browse by category and topic.
June 1998
The June 1998 issue opens with Justin Stone on the bamboo that bends and snaps back unharmed, and on the difference between ahimsa and non-attachment. Ed Altman and Jim Hecker report on Justin’s May lecture for inmates at Old Folsom State Prison. Aida Wilks teaches three weeks of classes in Manila, and Barbara Sommers adapts a seated class for students with Alzheimer’s.
Vivian Hoff arrived at her senior class at a St. Paul community center fighting a respiratory infection, and found her balance and breathing cleared as the chi cultivated by all twenty students took over.
Kathy Grassel reviews Spiritual Odyssey, the collection of Justin Stone's 1985 to 1997 essays, poems and napkin-scribbled snippets, drawing out its recurring themes of practice over theory and non-attachment.
A countdown of ten inducements to the 1998 Teachers' Conference, from green chile and the Talent Show to moonrise over the Sandias, Justin's new Spiritual Odyssey book, and learning the Jing.