Wednesday, February 24, 2016

52

52
ALL-under-Heaven have a common Beginning.
This Beginning is the Mother of the world.
Having known the Mother,
We may proceed to know her children.
Having known the children,
We should go back and hold on to the Mother.
In so doing, you will incur no risk
Even though your body be annihilated.
Block all the passages!
Shut all the doors!
And to the end of your days you will not be worn out.
Open the passages!
Multiply your activities!
And to the end of your days you will remain helpless.
Translated by John C. H. Wu
Interpretation by Bill Bernsen


SLOW SET
Return 
To the source
Slow set
Mothers support 
Their children
Mothers look to children 
For strength/stability
Same relationship in all
Of heaven and earth
Expressed by man 
Known as equilibrium
Mother 
Is a fulcrum
Gives birth 
To the scale
Once realized 
The scale
Weight everything
Too much yin 
Add yang
Too much yang
Take away 
Some yang = balance
These are the children 
Once know how 
To weigh something 
Then concentrate 
On the fulcrum
It is important 
To understand how 
A scale works 
Before weighing things 
Eventually have control 
Of the scale 
The lever 
Of life
Is the fulcrum

Fulcrum supports 
Center of gravity
Kow tow to
Center of gravity
See center of gravity
In self-first
Then students 
Opponent lastly 
It was there
In the good and bad
But I did not know myself
Well enough
To recognize it
To know/understand 
Other forms/weapons 
Is to turn back 
To slow set 
Fill the hollow
Hub/space  
With heart] 
Hub = body
Vase = food water in body
Room = practice space
All must be filled
With spirit
Mother 
At one time
Was a child too 
To know the mother’s 
Childhood
 Is to know 
The legacy
At what time 
Does the child 
Become old enough 
To be the mother
Being the mother
Is being creative
In childhood
Be careful as to
What information 
Is let in 
Beginning 
Mother 
Protect children
Guides them
However
Cannot live
Their lives
Let them go physically
Protect them spiritually
Narrowing 
Teaching
Both in time/space
Waist controls 
Gestures
Control body
Mother Ideas
Give birth 
To children 
Of ideas
First find
 The Master
Must be an artist 
To do this
Next master self
Finally know others
To become
 A warrior 
Don’t read/view/ listen 
To others until 
I know self
Slow Set 
Is the secret 
To Tai Chi Chuan
Once
I know 
The slow set 
Then can know
 Weapons/push hands
Mother = Physics 
Mother 
Is earth/China
Child is man
Masters are heaven/spirit
All gestures
Have a common beginning
Mind/eyes/hands/ body
Slow Set 
Is the mother
Giver of birth
New ideas
Slow Set
Always!
Coil spring joints
Keep the mother (slow set)
Alive

First let
 Masters in 
To test 
Then relate 
To others
Once 
Thorax/waist/pelvis 
Are open
Energy 
From earth/China
Will ascend
Know slow set
Then applications
Then push hands
Block other influences
Negate stress
Of learning to soon
It all begins 
In mind
This is the universe 
All from 
The lineage
The universe
Live life
Common beginning
Uncommon idea
The future
First
Find the bow
Then string the bow
Then add the arrow/applications
The Mother
Is a fulcrum!
Slow set 
Is the Mother
The father
 Is the Master
The children 
Are the new ideas
Ideas are the future 
Of the art
Ward off all
Do not expose 
Self to trouble
Mother
Is a fulcrum
Know slow set 
To know
 Weapons/push hands
Don’t talk
Don’t think
Don’t use senses
Use 6th sense instead
Wu Wei
Tao
Slow set
Is the origin
Of all ideas
Block 
All passages  
Family/friends/foes 
While going thru 
The changes 
Always return 
To slow set
The Mother
To find the answer
In nature
Is to have insight
Feel it 
In the heart first 
Then commence 
Slow set 
To applications 
In life 
Ward off 
Rollback 
Press away 
Push 
Only if needed
Ward off
Thru Tai Chi Chuan
Love/heart
Grow around 
All obstacles
Learn 
Something new 
In Slow Set 
Apply it 
To weapons/push hands 
Then return 
To Slow Set
Changes/undoing
Block
Shut the outside
To open inside
To the earth
Outside
Slow Set 
Is the Mother 
Children 
Are new ideas 
Once understood 
Thru practice 
In all forms/applications 
Return to Slow Set 
Shut off/block 
The past
Be in the present 
To be free 
For the future 
Common beginning
The Bow
To the Tao
Receive all
Return to the Tao
All have 
In common 
Gravity 
Aware of gravity 
Thru Slow set
Then spirit 
Spirited gravity
Via man 
Ward off stage 
Progressing in Tai Chi Chuan 
Block all passages 
Close all doors 
Returning to the source
Slow Set
I want ideas
From nothing
Where do
They come from?
Answer
Is the Tao
This is nameless 
Comes from practice
Perhaps my DNA
Gestures 
Of Tai Chi Chuan 
Have a Ying and Yang 
To them
Must have
 A body/mind
To give birth
To a new idea
Have the correct form
Understanding the principles
Behind it
To give birth
To a new feeling
The mother 
Is the Slow Set
Child is the other 
Forms/push hands/weapons
Continuously
Return to the mother
Slow set unifies
The techniques
Envision 
Indistinct
In the Slow set
Attain at the
Actuality
Repose 
In the resolution 
Of a gesture
All the offspring 
Will get to be
Know quicker applications 
If they know 
Slow Set
Flexibility is power
In body/mind
The sign
Of a good teacher
Find the martial art 
Self-defense
Slowly  
In the slow set
Slow Set 
Is like breathing
Ideas in and out 
The Slow Set
Is the foundation
Of everything
Ideas I am 
Concentrating on 
Is the
Axle/fulcrum/center 
 Having known 
The gesture
Return to their source 
The fulcrum
Concentration on it 
Learn slow set
Find the pivot
Of gestures
Concentrate on connection
By thinking
About the pivot
When watching hands
The eyes connect 
The hands 
To the fulcrum
Know slow set 
Then know applications 
Put students 
Into ward off
Then let them 
Do slow set
First move of slow set
1. Stretch
2. Connect
3. Ward off
Don’t live 
For others’ ideas 
Close mouth
Close all the body’s senses
Reside in the
Original unity 
Reach this unity
Thru Slow Set
Become centered
Look upon the world 
Relate to it 
Find peace/contentment
Understand 
The elusive
Be enlightened
Look for it in others
The ones that see it
Good push hands partner
What takes energy 
Is others
Have enough energy 
On my own
Don’t take from others 
Nor give to others
Until understanding 
Energy
 Students should find
Their own energy 
Teacher’s job is
To alignment thru
Slow set 
Not too fast 
Not to slow
Teach students
To use their energy
To repair themselves first
Then additional forms
Don’t restrict 
What comes in 
From the Masters
But do restrict 
What goes out
To the students
Knife set
Is considered 
A child of slow set 
Once we have learned knife 
Go back to the slow set
Apply knife to that 
This came before
Occurs within 
To know yourself 
Thru feeling 
The new coming
Via the Masters 
Anything new
Should be related back
To the old
All professions 
Are like this
Everything is built on
The foundation
Of the old
Once the new
Is established
It can become part
Of the old
If it is worthy
This can occur
In just a thought
Or it can take 100 years
Ward off others
Family/friends/foes 
While getting
To know self 
Open to others to 
Soon become helpless 
All new 
Ideas/feelings
Come to me
From the Masters
Keeping flexible
 Is called strength 
Must light 
My own way 
Keep close (survival)
To Tai Chi Chuan
As long as you live
Survive
Grandmaster Yang Lu-chan 
Said Tai Chi Chuan 
Will take care 
Will always have 
Food/clothing/shelter
Accomplished by closing
Senses and living 
By the 6th sense
Aware within self
So not to deplete self 
In the world 
Of others
The mother
Is who
First thought
Of the idea
He who hears 
The new idea
Becomes the son 
Of the mother
I feel 
I am a son 
Of the Tung style
Enthusiastic 
Loyalty
Keep working
On the small details
Revealed in bright eyes
If I understand Slow set
I can understand all 
All means
That which came before
History /lineage 
And all that will come after
Future/lineage 
(Who will continue) 
The present 
Should be used 
For practice
Past and future
Will reveal as 
I get stronger
Ideas 
From the 
Masters (mother)
To students
Ward off all
Negate news/entertainment
Cultivate spiritual
Must connect to 
Mother earth first
Then create
Take the small corrections 
Which add up 
To great gestures
To dwell 
On shortcomings leads 
To great gestures
Don’t do push hands
To learn
But rather
To confirm
Know/understand 
Slow Set
Proceed to weapons
Knowing/understanding 
Weapon
Proceed to others
By teaching Slow Set
Block all
Family, friends and foe
Who causes calamities
Body/mind
Is the mother
Producing
Spirited ideas 
Slow Set
Repair and align
Weapons/Push Hands
Encounter with nature
Slow set
Nature
1st move of Slow Set
Slow Set
Urge not 
To do weapons
Means more practice 
Of Slow Set
Know Slow Set
To know self
Know self
To know gestures
Know gestures
To know applications
Know applications
To know others
Just do
Slow Set
With faithful
Constancy
Clarity
Incremental
Insight
First learn
Slow Set
Then apply
Applications
Weapons
To say no
Is to know
First know Own
Conflicts
Then others
I am a child
Of the lineage
Slow Set
Quietly
Propagates
Future
Forms

Vitality

Originates 

In a virtuous

Slow Set

Daily solo 

Practice

Is paramount

To progress

Isolation

Is where ideas

Turn to intuition 

Tai Chi Chuan

Unites

Spirit/gravity

Generating a gesture

Knowing

The gesture

Is to know

Application

Resulting in harmony

With no harm

All Tai Chi 

Endeavors

Have a common  

Beginning in

Slow Set

Then proceed to 

Other forms

Used as self defense

Defending 

Rejuvenation

Unceasing 

Slow Set  

To have

Constancy in
Weapons/push hands

To Master

Tai Chi Chuan

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