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ATTAIN to utmost Emptiness.
Cling single-heartedly to interior peace.
While all things are stirring together,
I only contemplate the Return.
For flourishing as they do,
Each of them will return to its root.
To return to the root is to find peace.
To find peace is to fulfill one's destiny.
To fulfill one's destiny is to be constant.
To know the Constant is called Insight.
If one does not know the Constant,
One runs blindly into disasters.
If one knows the Constant,
One can understand and embrace all.
If one understands and embraces all,
One is capable of doing justice.
To be just is to be kingly;
To be kingly is to be heavenly;
To be heavenly is to be one with the Tao;
To be one with the Tao is to abide forever.
Such a one will be safe and whole
Even after the dissolution of his body.
One runs blindly into disasters.
If one knows the Constant,
One can understand and embrace all.
If one understands and embraces all,
One is capable of doing justice.
To be just is to be kingly;
To be kingly is to be heavenly;
To be heavenly is to be one with the Tao;
To be one with the Tao is to abide forever.
Such a one will be safe and whole
Even after the dissolution of his body.
Translated by John C. H. Wu
Interpretation by Bill Bernsen
RETURN
Become a hub
Of a wheel
Must remove
All corrosion
Being a child again
Peace is
To realize
My job is
Spreading the art
Destiny writing
The journal
Journal has insight
For the worthy
Who read it
Lineage
Is constant
Embraces all
Who are worthy
Hollow self
So the warrior spirit
Can enter
Open heart
Evil can escape
Replaced by hero spirit
Where does the evil go?
It was never there
Part of being worthy
Opening joints
Causes returning
To root
Hollowness
Is the way
To heaven/lineage
Calmness
Is giving up
To earth/China
Spirit
Pulls me up
Gravity
Pulls spirit down
Weight the two
With the Tai chi
Fulcrum within
Spirit and gravity
Share the same
It is Man
All men
Have spirit and gravity
But only those
Who are worthy
Become
The fulcrum
Root = fulcrum
Fulcrum = peace
Peace = destiny
Destiny = constant
Constant = insight
Insight = understand
Embrace = all
Insight to all
Judge everything
As a fulcrum
Be hollow
To attach
To Grandmaster Yang Lu-chan
Have no intent
To undo
Something
Be careful
That something evil
Does not sneak in
The empty space
All new ideas
Dissolve
Into slow set
The spring feeling
The root
Relaxed upper body
Emptiness
To return
To the root
Of the art
Is to find peace
Returning
To the state of mind
That the new ideas
Come from
Each of the new ideas
Is the same
In that they do want
To return
To their roots
Source
Lineage
Ideas
Like students
They come
And they go
Don’t try to hold on
A struggle
Will ensue
New Ideas/students
Cannot come forth
Adhere
Single-heartily
To internal
Harmony
The return is the
Relaxing back
To the earth
The fulcrum
Must be at peace
To hear/feel intent
Now that I know
Slow set
Undo the blockages
Align
To point of opponent
Not being able
To change
This is the Hub
Of the Vortex gesture
Emptiness
Allows the sinking
Sinking will return
To earth (China)
The ultimate emptiness
Is the body
Being relaxed/calm
Enough to receive
Masters (spirit)
Earth’s energy (Jing/Chi)
To be rooted
Is to have
A foundation
For the spirit
Emptiness (relax)
Interior peace
Return to the root
Peace
Destiny
Constant
To insight
Safe thru out the day
Apprehension
Is the return
Return is safe
Gravity pulling
Bad chi down
To earth
Opening body
To Masters Spirit
To find the Tao
Look inside
While doing slow set
Tao is youth
Youth is the undone
Undoing is empty
Empty in open
Open is the
Universe
Return
To the root
Giving up
To gravity
Water steeps downward
Lay down/relax
Be rooted
Dwell
In the insubstantial
Into the next gesture
Earth’s gravity pulls
Me to earth/China
Open reaching for
The apex
Of the universe
Close sinking
To the center
Of the universe
With in
Be hollow
Return
Working on
An implosion
Prior to explosion
Focus on peace
Hollow the foot
Hollow hand
Hollow head
Change with change
Interior peace
From a strong foundation
Deeply root
To return
I must undo
Find the interior peace
Wisely return to youth
Constancy
Is the goal
Hearing
Is freedom
From harm
The return
Is the bow
Trying to straighten
Always return
To the straight
Empty as a hub
Empty as a bowl
Empty as a hole
To be whole
Find the fulcrum
Of the mind/body
The return
To China
China will respond
To reach the edge
Of the universe
Be rooted deeply
In the art
Resulting
In elasticity
As a teacher
Witness students
Return to youth
Truly a mountainous road
Sometimes up
Sometimes down
Thru their confusion
Stay constant
The guard rail
This will bring them
Calm insight
Opens their minds
To the supreme art
Listening
Is oneness
With Master
Student
Partner
Opponent
Have root
Stay in Tao
Pile stance
To perfection
Emptiness allows
The sinking
Sinking will return
To earth/China
Root
Still
Hollow
Agreement
When hugging
Masters
When asleep
Listen to dreams
Of practice
New ideas
Come and go
Observe
Their application
To the form practice
As the 10,000 touches
Rise and fall
Witness their return
To youth
Pulling (retreating)
Is more peaceful
Than pushing (advancing)
Constant
Return
To my true nature
An animal
Be a strung bow
Wait/listen
Aim for all
Open waist = bellows
Returning to root
Using core
Earth’s energy
Adjust to environment
Cautious
as to what
I bring
Into myself
While witnessing
Return to China
And youth
Relax
Hollow
Of intent
Phoenix and Dragon
Will fill the hollow
The waist
Must be at peace
To change with change
When attacked
Always return
To the waist
To gain wisdom
Of the commander
The commander
Is at one
With the Tao (lineage)
The lineage gives
The commander
The job after it has
Proven itself worthy
To command
The body
Above all the body
Must be
On firm ground/China
Relax = interior peace
Always listening
Constantly receiving
Be a fulcrum (Tao)
Weight what comes in
Ward off bad
Receive good
Return
To the root
(Foundation)
Must be peaceful/calm
To do so
Constant connection
Concentration
Changeable fulcrum
Coil spring Jing
Unseen like
Tao
Is invisible
Completing gesture
Is to hollow body
Down to legs/China
Focus on center
Rather than point of contact
Allows change with change
Applications will come
Automatically
Kai He style
Is the constant
Constant is the Tao
Divinity
Tranquility = rest
All that I am doing
Is directing me
To return
To my roots
Who I really am
Hollow intent
Listen
To Masters (Tao)
Being heavenly
Is being at one
With the lineage
Freedom
From harm and harming
Vortexing gestures
Secret
To Tai Chi Chuan
The universe
Is vortexing outward
I have just merged
With the universe
I have the universe’s energy
The Tao!
Listen with earth/China
I am earth’s
5 senses
Me plus
the 5 senses
Equals the 6th sense
Tai Chi Chuan
Achieve
The ultimate
In passivity
With an open heart
Embrace tranquility
Listen/hear
Gestures take shape
Rise to technique
Repose to purpose
Constant
Is the open heart
Hear the changes
Is the ability
Hear a constantly
Changing surrounding
Regarding
World as one
My one
To be one
Is to realize
The universe
Focus
On the fulcrum
A state of stillness
In stillness
Listen for change
Room for
Everything means
Without prejudge
It’s kingly
Kingly – heavenly
Heavenly – Tao
Tao is forever
Root
In the lineage
Stillness
In the slow set
Fate
Don’t doubt
Illumined
Is spiritual
Insight
Understand form
Then teach
Without prejudice
Work on only good
Kingly; teacher
Heavenly; lineage
Tao
Start over again
Emptiness means
I have no questions
Hollowness
I have no answers
The root
Is the slow set
Class is like slow set
Returning
To the root
Is stillness
Fulfillment
Is getting
The new idea
The new students
Once slow set
Is known
Then I’ll have room
For other forms
And new ideas
Masters
Are delegates
From heaven
The constant
Is keeping
An idea/new feeling
Thru out slow set
Eventually
Thru out life
Constantly returning
Looking for
The great stature
Relax calm open
Stillness
Unchanging rule
Feeling with all things
Returning
To the root
China
A technique
Comes from slow set
Not thinking
About techniques
Having fate
In the form
Masters will give
Everything
Tai Chi Chuan
Is revealed
When calm
Applications exposed
Through calmness
The calmness sits
On the fulcrum
Structure
Achieve the apex
Of hollowness
Only thru form/structure
Reserve
The ultimate silence
Once understand
The correct structure
Preserve it
By always remaining
Rooted
In all gestures
Thru practice
I can eventually
Call the quiet
All gestures
Are one
New ideas
Feeling
Come faster
Each gesture
Returns to China
Enlightenment
Is listening
To myself
And nature
To understanding
The form
Having form
Impartial
To anyone’s gesture
Is the highest nobility
Is divine
Be passive
As a mirror
It gives back
What it receives
Without concealment
Can overcome thing/person
Without injuring
Distorting
They distort themselves
All I do is reflect
What they are feeling
Nourish
The heart
Rest in action
Class will
Be reformed
Of itself
Forget my body
Spit forth intelligence
Ignore all differences
Become one with the infinite
Release mind
Free spirit
Be devoid of soul
Thus will things grow
Prosper and return
To their root/China
Kow tow
To the Lineage
Awareness
Connect
To Masters
Continuous
Slow set
Fulfill destiny
Teach
Find peace
Return to root
Reach
Real softness
A new kind
Of durable
Will appear
Balance fulcrum
Hear the changes
First have very strong
Ward off
To protect
Try to handle politics
Without ward off
It will affect my form
If a political situation arises
Relax and listen
To heart
Return to the root
The answer
Is in show set
Slow set is feed
By its roots
Push hands is nourished
By Slow set
Nurture
Slow set
Comprehends all
Be the fulcrum
In class
Don’t’ let others
Unbalance
The class
Become a child again
A child has
A new idea each day
A child is not interested
In the news
A child
When in trouble or sick
Goes to mother
A student
When going
Thru the changes
Goes to slow set
Touch definitive
Emptiness
Grasp firm
Tranquil
Peace/war/peace
Constant
Feeling of loss
If depression
Sets in
Retreat to
Ones roots
Slow set
Witness students
Return to the root
See many difficulties
In them
An opponent or student
Is easy to push over
If they have not returned
To their root
Set
Slow set
Is the returning
To the root
Like A tree
Gets water
From its roots
Be a tree
Receiving
Sun’s spirit
Thru leaves/gesture
Descending it to earth/China
Then ascending earth’s Jing/Chi
To the leaves/gesture
I understand
The constant
I embrace
All the students
I am doing justice
To all the students
As a teacher
Witness students
Return to youth
Sometimes up
Some times down
Thru their confusion
Stay constant
Bring insight
Opens their minds
Each time
I do slow set
I am practicing
The return
To find peace
Is recovering
My true nature
To recover my nature
Is to know
The constancy
To know myself first
Then I can find
The constancy
Of Tao
Oneness
With Tao
Is freedom
From harm
Indescribable pleasure
Eternal life
Listen
With earth
I am earth’s 5 senses.
Be hollow
Of intent
Cling
To the heart fulcrum
Contemplate
On the balance
Support the fulcrum
Listen for
The equilibrium
Tai Chi Chuan
Gestures
Are used
To calm/repair body
So it can be a conduit
For Jing/Chi
This is the oneness
With Tao
Hollow
Return to earth
Hollow = peace
Open to destiny
Keep it constant
Tao will guide
Oneness with Tao
Is Tai Chi Chuan
To attain elasticity
Be rooted/connected
To point of focus
This is concentration
Must be constant
Wholly hollow
Return to roots
Peaceful postures
Negate falling
Reach Tai Chi Chuan
Merge with universe
Morning practice
Be empty/peaceful
Masters can return to me
Do not miss morning practice
It will break
Silk thread of training
Always gather
With apprehension
Listen/receive
The good
Ward off the bad
Using
Mercy/compassion/listening
With apprehension
Return to oneness
With the lineage
Touch the spirit
Return to heart
Become constant
By merging with gravity
The above is divine
Attention
Bow to
Open/connect/hollow
Straighten to
Receive/return/root
Entire being
Involved
Root first
Ascend spirit
Open to E=MC2
Yu Pei Shi
To keep balance
Think of root/gravity
Spirit constantly rising
Oneness with all
This is concentration
Tai Chi Chuan
Tranquility
Be open to all
Return to earth/China
One with the lineage
Working thru me
The divine
Being the conduit
For the lineage
Physically/spiritually
To earth/China
Be a fulcrum
When judging
Interior peace
Masters return
To China thru me
Must be constant
Calm the path
With suspension
Of danger
Thru the stillness
Of Slow Set
Masters
Can return
To China
I the conduit
To constant
Caution
This is Tai Chi Chuan
Dissolution
Of the past
In the peaceful
Present
For divinity
In the future
Constant
Song-kai
Loose/open
To receive
Epiphanies
Constant
Yu Pei Shih (alert)
Song-kai (loosen/open)
Da ji (Percussion)
To Tai Chi Chuan
Song-kai
Loosen/open
To descend
Lineage
To China
Lineage
Will respond
With percussion
When called
Passion
Returns
Spirited gestures
To practice
Tai Chi secret
To Jing/Chi
Press
Coil spring
Experience
Future
In present
Buoyed
By the past
Heartfelt
Hollowness
Tao # 4,5,11,22,45,53
Tai Chi gestures
Slow Set
Heartfelt
Gestures
Expanding
Rearching/rooting
Physically/spiritually
To the next
Soulful
Gesture
Be tree
Leaves
Constantly
Seeking
Sun/spirit
While
Remaining
Deeply rooted
Peaceful/past
Tai Chi Chuan
Gestures like
An elastic band
Anchored at
One end
Spirit
Other end
Gravity
Push Hands
Applications
Same between
Opponents
Slow Set
Between
Future/past
Gesture
There is a
Ever
Present
Tai Chi
Fulcrum
Tai Chi Chuan
Essence is
Elastic
Connection
Between
Advancing/retreating