The Infinite and Golden Truth about Tai Chi Chuan
[I:http://www.mymartialartsblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/AlCase3.jpg]The truth of the art known as Tai Chi Chuan is inherent in a symbol that nobody understands. If you read to the end of what I have written here you will understand that symbol, and it will enlighten your practice of the martial arts. I am speaking of that grand terminus, the symbol we call yin yang.
The Yin Yang symbol is two fishes swimming is night and day is good and evil is…poppycock. The Yin Yang symbol has nothing to do with those poetic but truncated observations possible to our short lived species. The Ying Yang symbol is actually a quite mechanistic approach and empirical observation to our universe.
Everything in the universe is nothing more than a motor. A motor is defined as tension existing between two objects. Doesn’t matter whether the tension is pull or push, just that the tension exists, and that is what holds our universe together and…keeps it apart.
A simple little atom, with its protons and electrons, forever chasing and never catching each other, is but a motor. A cell, with sodium and potassium bubbling their happy little lives away, is just a simple, little motor. And this dichotomous viewpoint of the universe can be expanded to include all the combined motors, even through the confusion of machines, up to the repulsion and attraction of celestial bodies that sweep through the universe.
When you do Tai Chi you are pulsing energy up the legs, across the generator, and down the legs. Back and forth, alternating current, causing the generator, called the Tan Tien, to bubble its unique energy, called chi. Imagine the generator as a little cup of tea, being swirled, not to slosh, but to be mixed in yin yang motorific fashion, just enough to froth just a bit of steamy chi.
As you do Tai Chi you become aware of the space that is your body, and awareness hollows out your body to receive this chi. Eventually the golden elixir, summoned far more efficiently than any ancient alchemist might believe possible, fills the body, becomes responsive to the wishes of the student/philosopher. Strength, good health, endurance, mental clarity, all are the product of a body made to function the way it was designed.
Animals do Tai Chi, and wonder why we don’t. Babies are possessed of Tai Chi, and robbed of it through the cultural expectations which accompany the aging process. And, the space of yourself being attained, you know the answer…who you were before you were born, and who you are after you die.
I sell nothing with this article, I only search for friends, and give away my knowledge. Can you have it? Can you have yourself, the eternal you that all love and none see?
Al Case has studied the martial arts over 40 years. He has written hundreds of articles and had a column in Inside Karate. His work is available in a free ebook at Monster Martial Arts.
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