Musings

T’ai Chi Chih (TCC) is not religion, and TCC has nothing to do with dogma or doctrine. But it’s definitely spiritual in nature. And it is joyous. And it’s true. That’s why I always loved going back to Albuquerque to be with Justin. It was always joyous. I would skip into the room to go say hello to Justin. I felt like a little girl. I felt like I was back to myself. So many things had been pushed down over the years and taken away from what I intuitively knew. Then it returned. TCC allowed the joy of living to return into my life. It was effortless play. The play of the sage.

I’m not afraid of anything anymore. Free yourself to yield to whatever happens or happened to you. Rise and fall with it.

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When we explain movements with words, it’s a trap because it limits what we might discover. If you keep to the principles and you pay attention to those, your practice will evolve and soften. You will move from the tan t’ien if you pay attention to it. The journey through TCC is a journey of discovery. It’s really about yourself, right?

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I’m having fun in my practice. I watch it flow. How much can I be really present? Was that polarity? Am I really feeling the feet on the floor? Am I so strong that I grow roots? I have a feeling of becoming one with life. That’s softness; that’s strength. Because the movement is like water, you’re fluid with it, in a very palpable way. It’s invisible, but you feel it inside. You have to let it open, open to the edge of your being. It’s how you start to learn how to do TCC.

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Are we ready to be ready to listen? There is a coherence. We look at the movement from the outside. It’s not about where the hands are exactly, although they have to be at a specific space. But there is a movement with it. It’s freeing the space below the navel. It’s freeing that shift, letting go. It is so amazing when that happens.