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TAO is always nameless.
Small as it is in its Primal Simplicity,
It is inferior to nothing in the world.
If only a ruler could cling to it,
Everything will render homage to him.
Heaven and Earth will be harmonized
And send down sweet dew.
Peace and order will reign among the people
Without any command from above.

When once the Primal Simplicity diversified,
Different names appeared.
Are there not enough names now?

Is this not the time to stop?
To know when to stop is to preserve ourselves from
 danger.
The Tao is to the world what a great river or an ocean
 is to the streams and brooks.

Translated by John C. H. Wu

Interpretation by Bill Bernsen

PEACE

Tai Chi Chuan 

Is to the body 

What an artery 

Is to a capillary

Thru Tai Chi Chuan

I can physically/spiritually

Receive the Jing/Chi

Of the Masters

Tao is named 

Thru me

If I am 

Worthy/connected

Before sweet dew 

Is tasted

One must 

Taste bitter

To picture

Tai Chi Chuan

School

Imagine 

Rivers/mountains

Ocean/earth

Lineage/China

Those who can see 

Master’s thoughts 

Are uncommon

If I am thinking/talking 

How can the Masters 

Teach me

So

Be hollow/listen 

Riding the Dragon 

To synchronization

Abide 

By the Masters 

Instructions

When teaching 

Hence 

 Worthy students 

Will come

  Unworthy students 

Will go

A natural selection

Dragon 

Is the secret

Dragon

 Is within me

Water knows 

Itself well 

Listens to 

Its environment

Gravity spirit (evaporation) 

Must listen to self

It is a feeling

If I say

Too much

I feel like

I get scolded

By the Masters

Realize that I am

The center of gravity 

Of my environment 

Eventually add 

Centripetal/fugal force 

Tai Chi Chuan 

To the body 

Is what center of gravity 

Is to the wheel

Tai Chi Chuan 

Is a fulcrum

Supported by

Its center of gravity

Tai Chi Chuan 

Is to me

What the beach

Is to a gain of sand

When I practice 

Tai Chi Chuan

Solo

 For Master

Is he doing

 The same 

For me

Connect 

To the spirit/gravity 

The Masters 

Will provide 

Jing/Chi

Everything

Will be right (write)

Without attending

  Master’s classes

Cling 

To the art 

All will be like

 Reeling silk

Simplicity

 Calm clear 

Slow set 

Tao is 

All the laws of physics 

Applied with spirit

To a gesture

There is something

Way beyond

What I am doing 

And

To get there is

To undo all the

Wrong done

To me by myself

I am feeling 

A cosmic sense

Coming on

Cling to 

The epiphany

It will hold

To me

Harmonize 

Spirit/gravity 

Gestures always hidden

I must be in 

The Tao

I am receiving 

The ideas 

Connect 

To Masters 

To understand 

Love opponent

Adhere  

During push hands 

Cling 

To practice

It is the river 

To the Tao (ocean)

Tao has no intent

Nor apprehension

It just is

The Masters

Are nameless

To the unworthy

The Master

 To the student

Is what a trunk 

Of a tree 

Is to its leaves

Leaves feed 

The trunk 

With energy 

As the roots

Give nutrition 

To the Master

If they do not continue 

Tai Chi Chuan

They are not worthy

Tai Chi Chuan abides 

Is a Chinese treasure

Whom can I trust with it 

They will be my student

If the teacher 

Abides 

To the lineage 

Worthy students will 

Be draw in him  

Tao = projecting heart 

Into whatever 

Focused on

It is what 

All the Masters 

Of Tai Chi Chuan

Artist/writers/scientists 

Have in common

My art 

Is the Tao

All beings 

Are drawn to it

Tao is listening 

To nature

This will direct

Creativity

Cling to the lineage 

Master will serve

Spirit and gravity  

Guide down

Epiphanies

Masters’ spirit 

And earth/China Jing/Chi 

Are harmonized 

Thru worthy students 

Have I found 

Tao

Inside me

The hub/heart

Between spirit and gravity

Which can only

 Be known

Via the
Slow set

Push hands from

The hub/heart

Causes opponents 

To become one 

Of my gestures

Putting him in 

An orbit

Controlled 

By my aura

Masters 

Are nameless

To the student 

Until connected 

Only if worthy

Adhere 

To the lineage

Spirit and gravity 

Harmonized

Sent new feelings

Have to ward off 

Friends/family/foes

 In order 

To discover self

And get strong enough 

To harmonizes

The above with  

Heaven/earth 

Within 

I have been travelling

On the steams/rivers

Tai Chi Chuan 

Is the lake

The Tao 

Is the

Ocean 

Stop entertainment

Focus on practice

Live trouble free 

To the end

Of the commercial

Hinge 

On the lineage 

Ward off 

Will be present

Virtue 

Is not distant 

From a Tai Chi gesture

The reason the Masters 

Can lead 1000 student 

Is because he is 

Kow towing (support) 

To them

Opening 

Top of sternum

Back lifting head back

Allowed the Master’s spirit

To enter my upper body

Master from above

Gravity form below

Merge at center 

To make 

Tai Chi Chuan

Become more like 

The Masters

Mastering the art

More the people 

Will follow

Without a doubt

If I can keep 

To the Masters

Students will 

Naturally follow

When the gesture

Becomes spontaneous

Then I have it

When anything

I do spontaneously

Means 

I have 

Tai Chi Chuan

Primordial simplicity 

Is always there 

In everything

It only appears 

When named

Keep the form 

As an uncarved block 

It is the greatest thing 

On earth

Possess Tai Chi Chuan slow set 

Then the 10,000 ideas 

Will arrive

New ideas 

Are like

Sweet dew 

From bliss

There must be 

A messenger 

For the Tao 

It is Slow Set

Only 

The worthy teacher

Can receive the names 

Only he can pass them on 

To his students

But few are listening

Devotion 

To the Tung School

Show anyone who

Walks thru the door

But only teach

Have passion

For the art

If a teacher supports

The lineage faithfully 

His students will 

Learn the art

An infant starting 

As an uncarved block

Others carve him 

Into something that

He is not

How do you undo

What others have

Carved me into

Undoing implies 

Taking away

But they have 

Already taken

Where did it go 

That which they carve why

Perhaps nothing really

Gets carved away

It only relocated

On the block

Student 

Problems

Cling to the Tao

 Is the answer

What are warning signs

To harmonize

Mind and body

For the answer

Simplicity = elasticity

If there is anything inside 

That is stopping me

From being totally elastic

Then it must be 

Simply corrected  

Rest means

Being calm relax 

Change with change

The Slow Set

Is to man

What the heart

Is to the veins/arteries

Masters and China

Harmonize

Thru me

Simply reestablish

Connection to Tao

Masters

Are nameless if 

Worthy and connected

Merging spirit and gravity

Thru Tai Chi Chuan

New ideas and feelings daily

Tai Chi Chuan is to man

That a mountain is to

A handful of dirt

What builds

The mountain 

Tao is nameless

To the unfit

Tai Chi Chuan

Is unknown

To the unworthy

The worthy

Harmonize

Spirit and gravity

Masters and China

Thru slow set

Epiphanies appear

Physics of

Spirit and gravity

Conspire

Thru Tai Chi Chuan

To evolve the art

Must undo that

This impedes

Examples

 Entertainment/news

The present

Is nameless

If I name it 

It becomes 

The past

I will name 

It fulcrum

Balancing
the past /future

Listening

To lineage

Gives life

And longevity

Oneness

With lineage

Spirit and gravity

Masters and China

Are harmonized

At the waist

The fulcrum

Spirit /gravity

Compose

In the waist/psoas

  

Masters and China

Merge within me

Ripens the fruits

Of the future

Masters

Maneuver

Jing/chi

In me

Accept

Tao

With diligent

Patients

Yu Pei Shih

To align

Spirit and gravity

Within

Harmonize

Spirit and gravity

Masters and China

Via the salute

Slow Set

the ocean

Weapons

The vessels

Simplicity

In Slow Set

Is the secret

To security

And success

Ideas 

Hibernate

Until awakened

By a seasoned

Slow Set

Comprising

Embracing

Tai Chi Lineage

Conveys

Harmonious

Slow Set

Slow Set

A slow process

To a righteous

And sometimes rude

Transformation

Resulting in

Real rejuvenation 

Tai Chi Chuan

Lineage

Allegiance

Harmonizes

Slow Set

Tai Chi applications

Worthless

Until realize 

In Slow Set

Slow Set

Being plumb

In posture

Aligns

Spirit/gravity

New ideas/feeling

Will flow to 

Tai Chi gestures

There is an

Hidden

Tai Chi fulcrum

Between

Spirit and gravity

Harmonizing

Slow Set

Slow Set 

Spirit/gravity

Conspire  

Bringing

Harmony

To each

Gesture

Slow Set

There is a

Secret sinew

Conspiring 

Harmony

Betwixt

Spirit/gravity

Master/student