Awareness has no frontier;
it is a giving of your whole being, without exclusion.
(Bruce Lee)
Freedom from the known
Dynamic Balancing Tai Chi requires you to unlearn what you have learned, to forget what you
think you know.
People are reluctant to
let go.
This is a hindrance to learning.
Free your mind from the past and be prepared to discover the new.
Faith
Your teacher tells you to remain soft and loose, that you can move somebody
simply by shifting your weight and turning your waist...
If you don't believe them, what happens?
You use local muscle tension.
You seek to accomplish the task through incorrect
means.
Your lack of faith in the tai chi and the teacher results in your failure.
Half-heartedness - trying rather than doing - is caused by doubt .
If you believe that you can move the person, you will use the
tai chi.
Your
mind and body must join to create intention.
If you commence a task with an attitude of failure, then you will fail
because you have chosen to.
Dithering
If you become caught in the folly of doubt, you will dither.
A person who wobbles cannot act.
You must see the path and step
firmly forward without
fear
and doubt.
This is the very heart of faith.
Jing
Adding
neigong to your tai chi will
produce unseen
substance and power.
If neigong is present and you remain relaxed and loose, your
tai chi will
work.
You should feel to be making no effort at all, yet another person
experiences your
strength.
This is the essence of 'jing'.
A jing is what the other person feels - they receive your energy and
substance.
As you progress, your ability to express energy will improve.
The real skill is to avoid force.
You must elude your opponent's strength and incoming force, and express your
own energy without tension or effort.
If this sounds improbable and unlikely, then you see the dilemma of faith in
tai chi?
Progress
Doubt can cripple your ability to learn;
maybe you think that the tai chi will not work.
But - you could be wrong...
Your teacher can manifest the skills, so they must be doing something
correctly.
Put your doubts aside - and act.
Do the tai chi exactly as you have
been shown and see what happens.
If you fail, so what?
Re-evaluate what you did, change what needs changing and do it again.
Trial and error lies at the heart of learning.
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