Originate Or Create?

We are fortunate to have found T’ai Chi Chih (or for it to have found us). But what’s more amazing is the privilege to know Justin Stone and to live during the time of TCC’s origination. Often, when people said that Justin created TCC, he would gently correct them by saying that he had originated it. This is not an idle distinction. There is a big difference between what each brings forth.

To originate is to enter a very special place within ourselves and participate in the unfolding of something never heard or seen. It is the work of wisdom (Prajna). To create is to connect thoughts and actions from past experience, understanding, intelligence or ability. The difference between these words is not just semantics.

When wisdom is present, ideas spoken of are often referred to as great. Many of us have used “great” when describing TCC. It implies something beyond human ability and desire. New ideas can also grow exponentially the more they are used (as originated); and the more they’re used, the more new aspects unfold. These ideas affect all levels of our being (mental, emotional and physical) not because someone planned it that way, but because that which is of the highest vibration can accomplish more than anyone is capable of imagining. It calls the best from within us, so that wisdom can be experienced.

The more we experience wisdom, the more we find we can’t take credit for wonders happening around and through us. Spiritual beings are often given flowers or gifts in gratitude for their work, but very quickly they put the gifts down or pass them along. This is different from people working and using their cunning to gain power or position. The latter may be smart but they are not wise, no matter how much they seem to be accomplishing. Intellect will never hold the same place as wisdom because of the grasping and clinging that accompany intellect in the form of attachments. True letting go is always the way of the wise person. It is how we learn to love and share the Chi.