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BY not exalting the talented you will cause the people
 to cease from rivalry and contention.
By not prizing goods hard to get, you will cause the
 people to cease from robbing and stealing.
By not displaying what is desirable, you will cause the
 people's hearts to remain undisturbed.

Therefore, the Sage's way of governing begins by

Emptying the heart of desires,
filling the belly with food,
weakening the ambitions,
toughening the bones.
In this way he will cause the people to remain without
knowledge and without desire, and prevent the
knowing ones from any ado.
Practice Non-Ado, and everything will be in order.

                                                                                                              

Translated by John C. H. Wu

Interpretation by Bill Bernsen


TRANSFORM

Not using

5 senses

Keeps the mind quiet

Makes me use

My 6th sense

Awakens the spirit

Calm breath

Means no intent

Ponders

My soul

Support

My spirit

Vacuous heart  

Stretch sinews

Fill belly

New ideas

Abating

Ambitions  

Bend the bones  

Practicing undoing

My old self

What is non-ado?

Master tells me

What to do

If I do not do it

Perhaps that is what

He wants me to do

To not do it

He is testing me

To see if I am listening

And worthy

Many tests

By the Master

To test my

Maximum

Bend a bow

Beyond

It’s maximum

I will be sorry

Did not quit in time

If I never

Bend my bow

To the maximum

How do I know

Maximum

Master knows

He will stop me in time

If I am listening

If the Master

Has to tell me

Verbally

Then I am

Not listening

Master has

An order

Watches to see

If I follow

His unspoken

Command

Be still

Think the opposites

To be a fulcrum

Hollow

From waist up

Listen with heart

Listen to who I am

Alignment first

Is the secret

Transformation of others

Without causing

Desire or conflict

Master makes a statement

Does not cause conflict

But at the same times

Let’s him know

If the people responding

Are truly connected

How I should teach

Non-ado

I will align

With the teacher

Master and art

Master

Does not praise

Anyone

Because no one

Is good enough

Not even himself

Don’t lean forward

Gravity pulls down

Again "Don’t lean"

Leaning causes

Bigger muscles

Only allow me

To lean further

Bones hold me up

With the help of gravity

Practice without leaning

Stay plumb

Everything will be

Aligned with

Art/China

I can discover

Students

Thru their intention

By not giving

Them rules

Think it

Do not say it

Only the virtuous

Will hear

Make time/ space

Available

For practice

Without interfering

With their families

And Work

By not stressing

Push hands/weapons

Students

Who are meant

To stay

Connected/continue

Will not wander

Empty practice

Of desire

Fill with a new idea

Weaken intent

Be apprehensive

Get down deeper

Gravity will assist

Know

Spirit/gravity

I cannot see either

But I know it’s there

When it is not

Weaken desire

By not doing

Push hands

Not prizing push hands

Worthy beginners

Will stay

Just work Slow Set

Alignment

Body/spirit

Master

Does not exalt

Superior students

Nor does he

Ridicule poor students

He has them demonstrate

Let’s others come

To their own conclusions

Master has made

His own conclusion

Watches those watching

To see who understands

Cease desire

Return

Back to slow set

Concentrate

on myself

Tone down ambitions

By doing slow set

Build bones

Not muscles

By doing slow set

Do not push yet

Only push after

I can take a push!

Hollow heart

Of intent

Drop my

Center of gravity

Stay in the moment

Look for

Find calmness

In my students

By aligning them

In form/spirit

Negate intent

Theirs and mine

Practice passivity

Hollow heart

Humility

Masters are in charge

Performing

Without action

Everything will be

in order

Done by keeping

Heart hollow

Thoughtful

Unfathomable scale

Is the fulcrum

Pivot

Tai chi point

Absolute calm

To listen

Worry

Egotistical wants

Contradicts my scale

To find

Tai Chi point

Forget the past

In the present

For the future

To arrive

How to teach

Advanced class

Undo the poor body

Postures

Subtracting

Wrong

By adding

The right

Listen/heal

Negate intent

Refute harm

Hollow my intent

Open my heart

Relax intent

Practice apprehension

Vacuous heart

In China

Means open

Humility

Passivity

Empty = humility

Full = pride

Emptying

The heart

Of cravings

Do not seek

The far

Don’t show off

Give them

Durable frames

Students

Who have

Too much desire

Become thieves

Of other styles

Telling the students

Don’t think about it

Just do it

Body understands

Immediately

It is the will

That takes time

To comprehend

Perfect form

Stretch further

Constant Jing

Constant corrections

Life is

A constant correction

Changing with change

Stretching beyond

Reason I don’t

See the stretching

In the Master’s form

Look beyond

Flesh and bone

Like the mother

Looking at her child

She sees/feels a lot more

Then just flesh and bone

Love the Master

As I would a child

I never promise

Students anything

Not elevating

The worthy

Master does not

Use the words

Senior student

Negate jealousies

By not praising

The talented

Students become troubled

Leads to rivalry

Same with organs

Inside body

Cravings are persistently

Stirred

As are old injuries

And euphorbias

Calm hearts

Clearing thoughts

To open heart

Ambitions ease

To resign desires

No intent

Act

With non-action

No force

Let application

Arise of itself

There is an evolution

In Tai Chi Chuan

My teacher must have it

As his teacher

My worthy student

Will get it

Don’t show favor

Don’t talk

About that which

They are not ready

Empty heart

Fill gut

Abate ambitions

Bend bones

Teaching

Push hands

To soon

Is about trying

To get to know others

Before I know myself

How to teach

The art

Do not ridicule

The slow and weak

All are weak

In their own way

Do not pay

More attention

To the talented

Nor the weak

Treat all equal

Do not praise

The future

For the students

Will steal from

Present practice

Time and concentration

Practicing

The present

I will have direction

Present is connecting

To the Masters’

Instructions

I must have

A teacher

Who is connected

Before I can connect

Clearing

The heart

Of longing

Fills the heart

With the Master

He has sustenance

For the heart

Entering thru my heart

Sinking down

To my belly

This is the heaviness

Abating ambition

To use the heaviness

Will cause the legs

To work harder

Hence

Toughen the bones

Be still

Keep complete

Control

Just listen

Master

Will control me

Instruction ascend

For the Master

Is in charge

Master teaches

Physical alignment

Of the body

Spiritual alignment

Is left up

To the worthy student

Poor demo

Is a secret

Yu Pei Shih

Is the goal

Master teaches

By example

If I am worthy

Be still

To still

Live

Desire

To defeat

Others

Leads to 

Demise

Of wisdom

Defense

Tai Chi practice

Is best

When not among

The rest

Tai Chi Chuan

Ward-off

Rollback/press

Push is

Self-defense

When challenged

With desire

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