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.
September 1992
The September 1992 issue carries Justin Stone’s conference talk on Prajna, the innate wisdom buried under habit energies, and Pam Towne’s account of coordinating the Teachers’ Conference rather than attending it. Steve Ridley asks teachers making their own instructional videotapes to let him check their movements first, and Mary Naidu reports on the first T’ai Chi Chih class in Hong Kong.
Richard Brier of Mill Valley plays on 'train' and 'training' in a pyramid poem about being so fully 'here' that arriving 'there' finds us already present.
Susan Webster congratulates the teachers accredited at the June Denver course, thanks Steve for his way of sharing chi, and describes the following Teachers' Conference as renewing her as a student.
Susan Webster
El Cajon, CA
Justin Stone offers a short koan-like statement that trying is not the Way and not trying is not the Way, neither nor, closing with the soul in the breath and the breath as fire.
A short pyramid poem by Richard Brier of Mill Valley, California, thanking Great IT for a portion of the Infinite and insisting that this is not the end.
Merry Lynn Noble describes receiving her teacher's certificate in June 1992 after a week-long training with Steve, thanking Justin Stone, Pat Hill and Bryan James, and planning to bring TCC into her psychotherapy practice.
A pyramid poem that asks whether we turn on our inlight as we turn on a light, suggesting a lit candle or stick of incense dedicated to another's inlight, an oriental custom of respect.
Larry Kessler's pyramid poem traces the one separating into two and into the many, unfolding as moon and sun, night and day, you and me, then flowing back like tides to one.
Six short pyramid poems by Steve Ridley, Viola Moriarty, Ed Altman, sch and Joe Apt, on liminality in a doorway, shifting light, non-identity and indestructible love.