Service Anyone?

Albuquerque NM

The basic intention in the T’ai Chi Chih community is always to be of service. To have any other idea is to miss the “Joy” in Joy Thru Movement. Besides the beauty and grace that most of us feel during our practice (and, for many, the healing), the prime reason that most teachers choose to share T’ai Chi Chih is so others can experience what we have. The list is long: bliss, joy, freedom, healing, peace, heightened awareness, longevity, creativity, health, weight loss, and more.

Justin simplifies the list, and also makes it more inclusive, when he says, “The purpose of T’ai Chi Chih is to balance the intrinsic energy, the Vital Force within, and to circulate this energy.” He also says over and over again, “T’ai Chi Chih is not medicine. And yet it is the healthiest thing we can do for ourselves.” Of what better service could we be to our fellow human beings than to help them acquire knowledge of the Supreme Ultimate, through the actual experience of it?

One teacher said (with tears in her eyes) during her Teacher’s Training Class, “I feel as if I was cheated not to have been taught T’ai Chi Chih earlier in life.” Many of us feel the same way. If we had been taught to do our T’ai Chi Chih practice as faithfully as we were taught to eat, bathe, sleep, and play, think of all the peace of mind, body, and spirit that would have been ours from early in life! Would we have followed the same paths of greed, anger and delusion? Or would our response to life have been a very different one: service to mankind. The world will be much different when that is our focus.

T’ai Chi Chih Teachers are very fortunate to have the discipline of daily T’ai Chi Chih practice, and the world benefits when we are of service, through loving and sharing the Chi.