A Future Filled with Hope

We have every reason to trust that Chi will continue to inspire, touch, transform, renew, and generate a T’ai Chi Chih future that is filled with promise and hope. This assurance is based upon the inspiration and guidance that resonated with Justin Stone when the TCC form was originally revealed to him by “divine inspiration in 1973/74.”

The account of this experience is include in the T’ai Chi Chih Photo Text (pages 12 and 13) and is well worth your reflective reading. Justin often recalls that he was merely the vehicle through which this form was to enter the world.

We each have a personal story of how TCC entered our life. Some of us sought TCC out, others experienced TCC as coming to them, and still others took a TCC class by chance – found out it was “Chih” and not “Ch’uan” – and discovered more than they could have imagined. All of us found its practice to be profoundly transformative.

The simple statement “T’ai Chi Chih changed my life!” can only happen through the evolutionary quality of the practice. Transformation is a product of Chi that fundamentally rearranges, aligns, and informs every aspect of our mind, body, and spirit right down to the very core of who we are. This process synchronizes with our individuality in its own way and time frame. It is totally beyond us, yet totally part of each pulsating cell and atom that makes us who we are and brings us beyond ourselves. This evolution is not dictated according to the ego, yet the ego too begins to be transformed back to the “uncarved block” of our fullest potential. Chi cannot be controlled; it can only be freed to circulate and balance.

Like Chi, the future of TCC can never be planned nor can it be controlled. TCC’s future must be set free if it is to flow and bring balance – to whomever, whatever, wherever, and however it is destined. To try to commercialize or organize this free flow would be impossible, given the universal nature of this energy. All we can do is allow it to flow, without any hype, and to follow its lead. After all, isn’t this the way it originally inspired, touched, transformed, and renewed each one of you? We’ve allowed the Chi to shape us; let’s trust the Chi to shape our future as well. 

I realize, from communicating with many of you recently (by way of phone, email, or writing), that this is your hope too. Yes, TCC’s future is full of hope and promise because so many of you play a key role in that future, and I am blest to be part of it all.

Wishing you peace and all good.

birds

fly low

close to earth

sunshine above

almost gone

birds cry

rain

– Gary Swanson

Chi

flowing

balancing

circulating

life is now

forget

then

– Gary Swanson

cold

winter

long dark days

I want to sleep

through the night

into

June

– Kathleen VanVickle

you

open

channels to

build energy

resulting

healing

you

– Kathleen Zutz

grace

mercy

forgiveness

practice these three

you will find

peace of

mind

– Matt Finlayson