Hearing & Knowing

Today I was driving through the countryside to class. Five cranes were foraging in the stubble of a wheat field – silently, gracefully, calmly. Every movement was flowing, perfectly balanced in nature. Even pauses had energy. The surrounding landscape is plush green from rain. A great teacher once suggested looking at all the nuances of the trees and bushes to get an idea of theme and variation.

So it is with T’ai Chi Chih. We practice and begin to see and feel differences in movements, nuances that bring us to greater softness, circularity, polarity, flow and continuity. We come to a quieter and greater understanding of Chi flow, of the oneness and continuity of life. And the quieter we become, the more we hear and know.