Spiritual Odyssey (May 2012 Memorial Issue)

The relationship between teacher and pupil is a very noble one in the history of Spiritual Practice. Never, in the history of such relationships, had I ever heard of a chela (or monk, or student) telling, or writing, his Master that ‘I know more than you do; I have gone past you.’ It would have been unthinkable.

Spirituality is accordance with Reality. This doesn’t come through words or intellectual processes. As the Chi is circulated and balanced, it comes of itself – rather it is just there.

Attachment to self, with the feeling that where we stand is the center of the universe, leads to suffering, not enlightenment.

When someone comes to visit me,
I take my cue from him or her.
If he speaks in a transcendental manner,
We dwell in Emptiness.
Should he speak from Prajna (Wisdom),
The flow will be smooth.
I am not here to preach or correct.
Offer gold and I will give back gems.
Linger in the dust,
And we will speak in banal terms.
It rests with you, my friend.

Dear dear
INJUST
I AM IMMENSELY ENTHUSED
FROM YOUR GRACIOUS VISIT
THE WORLDS NEED YOU
IT IS EXTREMELY URGENT THAT YOU MOVE
YOU AND THEM
YOU HAVE CAPTURED THE ANCIENT T’AI CHI
BRINGING IT RIGHT INTO ANY ORDINARY MOTION
ANYONE CAN DO
WHAT WE DO MOSTLY
MOVE
AND STILL
FREES US FROM SELF-MADE BINDS
AND KINDS

KEEPONMOVINGSTILLBRINGING IMMENSEINJOYTOUSALLWITHYOUWITHYOU

reps

The preaching of no words, the brilliance of no color.

One cannot strive for softness: the very effort of trying to be soft creates tension. It is the absence of any pressure, moving ‘slow motion in a dream,’ that allows softness to prevail. The best way to forget worries and ease tension is to shun the ego-center, so that no one is doing T’ai Chi Chih, but T’ai Chi Chih is doing itself. In this sense, T’ai Chi Chih becomes a meditation.

Properly seen, all happenings are Spiritual, arrows pointing at the Real.

Within this emptiness is a circle, and within the circle are the mountains and the lakes. There is nothing empty about emptiness!

When we find out Who and What we are, it is as the Lotus Sutra says: ‘Man’s voice is a voice filling the Universe, Man’s life is a life without limit.’

T’ai Chi Chih and integrity (teh), the power of inner sincerity, are one and the same thing.

The task of a T’ai Chi Chih teacher is to teach people T’ai Chi Chih. Period. It is not to ally T’ai Chi Chih with any spiritual or religious movement, which would be fatal to T’ai Chi Chih. It is not to gradually be merged with a religion, spiritual movement, Reiki, Maharishi’s teaching, or Yogananda’s traditions – these are completely apart from T’ai Chi Chih.