My Pledges

While I am alive I will attempt to see that T’ai Chi Chih Joy Thru Movement maintains certain idealistic standards. I believe it has a Divine Mission to help people, not necessarily make money.

There will be no ‘superstructure’, bureauocracy, or organization, and no salaried positions or change of high standards.

The ‘bottom line’ will not be the standard of thinking but the aim to help mankind will.

Several letters have suggested that the “two-tiered system” was a way to make more money. I hope we do not have such letters or the need for them in the future.

I will work to lower charges, not raise them. We are in difficult financial times and people are low on funds. When it was suggested that recommending teachers forfeit the $50 reward for sending pupils to Teachers’ Training Courses, I volunteered that I would also give up the $50 honorarium I received as creator of the TCC discipline. I suggested that this $100 per student—all of it—be placed in a scholarship fund to help needy candidates receive teachers’ training.

I have never appointed anyone “Spiritual Head” of T’ai Chi Chih Joy Thru Movement. Such a one would have had to have long years of spiritual training and be not in the least materialistic. I paid my dues, and he or she would have had to do likewise.

Popularity is not a good way to judge the sincerity of anyone. There are teachers who have worked long years helping me bring the TCC discipline up from nothing, and I pledge to see that their ideals are followed, not in words but in actions.