Wednesday, February 24, 2016

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14

LOOK at it but you cannot see it!
Its name is Formless.

Listen to it but you cannot hear it!
Its name is Soundless.

Grasp it but you cannot get it!
Its name is Incorporeal.

These three attributes are unfathomable;
Therefore they fuse into one.

Its upper side is not bright:
Its underside not dim.
Continually the Unnamable moves on,
until it rectums beyond the realm of things.
We call it the formless Form, the imageless Image.
We call it the indefinable and unimaginable.

Confront it and you do not see its face!
Follow it and you do not see its back!
Yet, equipped with this timeless Tao,
You can harness present realities.

To know the origins is initiation into the Tao.


Translated by John C. H. Wu

Interpretation by Bill Bernsen



AMBIGUOUS

 

Masters cannot 

Be seen

Heard

Touched

They are silent

Elusive 

Defy comprehension 

For the unworthy

Once connected

To the Masters

Know all they know

I Understand

Add to the art

This can only be done

Thru practice 

With them

Easy to break 

If forced 

Not sticking 

Then dropped  

Go limp 

If not concentrating

If dropped it 

Cannot use senses 

To retrieve it

Must use spirit

To pick up 

Where left off

Don’t hold the ends 

Of the thread

Only hold somewhere 

In between

The two ends

One end by the spirit 

Of Tai Chi Chuan 

Other by gravity

This is the thread

Of the Tao

My journal

Is like a scroll

Which will

Never end

Blunts 

Sharp edges 

Deflates ego

Unties knots 

In stomach

Softens glare

Humbling

All brings oneness 

To the art/life

Where does it all

Come from?

The Masters

Cannot be perceived 

With the 5 senses

Only way to know 

Is thru the 6th sense 

Center of gravity

Where all 

Senses converge

So to get in touch

With the sixth sense

Focus on 

Center of gravity

Then make decisions

Each practice

Should seem like 

I have answered 

Secret of Tai Chi Chuan 

Reason

Center of gravity 

Is the point 

Where all the senses converge 

If assaulted 

At any of the 5 senses 

Results in loss of balance 

Seeing

A sudden bright flash

Hearing

 A loud bang

Smell

 A strong smelling odor

Taste

 A bad tasting substance

Touch a push

The 6th sense 

Adjusts

To the assault

Before they happen

Shield eyes

Cover ears

Hold nose

Close mouth

Jump out of the way

Cannot do the above

Unless calm/relaxed

Get control

 Of center of gravity 

Get control 

Of 6th senses 

The hidden treasure 

Is formless

Soundless 

Cannot be touched 

The origin 

Is the Masters

And 6th sense

To find 

The Masters

Is initiation

Into Tai Chi Chuan

Celebrating

The 6th sense

Seeing so far 

Seeing past /future 

Listening so acutely 

Hearing intent  

Spirit

Gravity 

Man

Fuse into one 

Become Tai Chi Chuan.

Look up at spirit 

No top

Look down 

At gravity 

No bottom

At higher levels

Of Tai Chi Chuan

See spirit

Feel gravity

In self-first

Later in others

One who merges 

Spirit and gravity

Past and future

Becomes at present

A fulcrum

   

Unfathomable

Unnamable 

Because 

Not open to it 

Don’t show it

Don’t talk about it

When it is received

Now that I know

Look for it 

In others

They that have it

Will see it in me

Don’t understand it 

Not fused with it 

Practice to find

Connection  

Find the formless 

Perfect alignment 

Soundless 

No intent

Not connected

It is formless

It is soundless

Cannot touch it

Nor understand it 

Practice the formless

Until it is expressed

Music

Only I can hear it

Perfumes

Of water

Taste

Like air

Heart felt touch

All the above

Added up

Sixth sense

Sense 

The Masters 

With 

The sixth sense 

Jing/Chi 

Connection 

To the gestures 

Initiation 

To Tai Chi Chuan 

Masters 

Spirit correction

Shapeless

Mute

Intangible

Immeasurable

Unnamable

Unless I am worthy

Cannot see 

Energy 

In a spring

Do sense it

With the 6th sense 

Vortexing 

Energy 

Of the mind

And Master

Is Tai Chi Chuan

Heart felt hugs

Are unseen

But felt

Masters

Are Ideas

The 6th sense 

What is in 

The hollow hand

The Master’s touch 

Tai Chi Chuan is

Being the Master

Of the moment

Connect

 To the present

Is wisdom

Of the past/future

Master’s finger

Intangible touch 

Into the forehead 

Is the Tao

Macrocosmically

The universe

Microcosmically

One self

The circle

Learn 

Something new

Stop

Think about it

All day

Every second 

Is new

Learning 

Something new 

Every time 

I think about it 

Opponent has

To guess the new

By then it is 

To late

I have a new

New 

Dwell 

In the present 

Instead of expanding 

The present

Masters = ideas

Preparation

 Is all 

Taking place 

Inside 

Cannot see it 

On the outside

Therefore it is

Formless form

Recognize 

The roots 

Is initiation 

To the gesture

Fulcrum

The connection

To spirit/gravity

Know the lineage

They will know 

And protect 

Nameless

Is the lineage 

Until they see

Worthiness

Listen to lineage

Elusive ears

Until they see 

Worthiness

Touch 

The lineage

Cannot feel it

Until they see 

Worthiness

Reach 

Tai Chi Chuan 

No longer need 

The form

Only the thought

Referring 

To things

Mind relates to

The form 

Of Tai Chi Chuan 

Go toward them

See no front

Ward off

Go after them

See no rear

Roll back

Lineage directs

 The practice

Entirely

Things which rises

Spirit and gravity 

Are the thoughts

Hear blend 

Into one

Touch 

Infinitesimal

With the 6th sense

The beginning gesture

The essence

Main tread

Of the form

Sowing one gesture

Into another

A thought

Moves at 

The speed of light

6th sense it

Combination 

To fit previously

Thoughts

This makes sense

Vortex

Cannot see it                                      

Ching 

Cannot hear it                                       

Chi 

Cannot touch it 

Shen that is

The Masters void

Is open 

To the new

Is the most important part

Meet it

Do not see

Somebody 

Seems like 

Nobody

Follow it

Do not see its back

Somebody 

Seems like 

Nobody

Equipped with 

Timeless Tao

Harness 

Present realities

Equipped with 

Tai Chi Chuan

Understand 

Present energies

To know how 

To look at nature

Is opening 

Into Tai Chi Chuan

To know 

The lineage is

Introduction into

Tai chi Chuan

Ideas

Practice 

To know

The old

In the beginning

Of the lineage

Is a clue 

To Tai Chi Chuan

Know 

The ancient 

Base cycle 

Of the way

To master 

The present

Clue of Tao

Master the moment

Using all

The past practice

Of Tai Chi Chuan by

The past Masters

Put into the

Present gesture

Secret 

To Tai Chi Chuan 

Is to follow

Follow 

Ancient way

Master the now

Encounter 

The Master

But do not understand 

Front 

Follow 

Do not comprehend 

Back

Hidden in plain 

Sight

When getting 

These ideas

From where

I know not

I get them

I forget them

But not

The way

 Is always

From birth

Born again

Returning

 To the roots

To death

Really birth

Know the Masters 

Is introduction

Into the art

Tai Chi Chuan

 Is nature

Expressing thru man

Bright shadow

Shady light

I can think 

The opposite

Unrecognizable

Speechless

Spiritual

They fuse into one

The Master

Masters’ ideas

Yoke 

Existing realities

Know Masters

Initiation 

To Tai Chi Chuan

Beyond all 

Doggedness

To the unworthy

The imagined

Masters

Origin of all

Spirit

Of the lineage

With 6th sense

Harness 

The moment

To know 

The lineage

Is the secret

The 5 senses

Cannot locate

The lineage

Only the 6th sense

Can invite

The Masters

To my practice

Master Lieh-tzu

Working here?

Worthy

Awareness

Thinking

Tai Chi Chuan

Circling/coupling

Tai Chi point

Is the 6th sense

The connection

Of spirit/gravity

I am a worthy

Conduit

Tao twisting

Of the waist

Source of Tai Chi

Gesture

The Tai Chi

Lineage

Connection

To the lineage

Spirit

Tai Chi Lineage

To the unworthy

Song-kai

Body/being

Lineage

Legacy

Heart’s

Fulcrum

Know this

Know all

My heart 

Tai Chi fulcrum

Listens/interprets

Energy

With sixth sense

Origin of

Tai Chi gesture

Can only

Be imagined

Via Slow Set

Tai Chi Chuan

Initiation is

Void of 

The 5 senses

It arises from

The 6th sense

 9-19-23


 

 

 

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