The Vital Force Archive
Eighteen years of The Vital Force (2007-2025), 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.
May 2009
The May 2009 issue takes clarity as its theme, with Sister Antonia Cooper on the unclouded mind and Carmen Brocklehurst comparing practice to clarifying butter that brings anxious habits to the surface. Justin Stone tells the story of Chuang Tsu drumming after his wife’s funeral, and Sandy McAlister argues against shortening T’ai Chi Chih to TCC.
Justin Stone quotes Swami Rama of India at length on prana as the cosmic life principle, then credits his own undiminished vigor at 86 to consistent, correct T'ai Chi Chih practice.
Justin Stone [Reprinted with permission from The Vital Force
July 2002]
David Sakry retells a Tao Te Ching story about a monk who paints a symbol on a dream spider's abdomen, then lists four traits of indecision and how TCC practice restores clarity.
David Sakry
Minneapolis, MN
Justin Stone draws on Patanjali's Raja Yoga to explain how mental modifications harden into habit energies and tendencies, and argues that deep meditation and T'ai Chi Chih can erase harmful ones, including addictions.
Justin Stone [Reprinted with permission from The Vital Force
March 2000]