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TAO never makes any ado,
And yet it does everything.
If a ruler can cling to it,
All things will grow of themselves.
When they have grown and tend to make a stir,
It is time to keep them in their place by the aid of the
nameless Primal Simplicity,
Which alone can curb the desires of men.
When the desires of men are curbed, there will be peace,
And the world will settle down of its own accord.
As to foreknowledge, it is only the flower of Tao,
And the beginning of folly.
And the beginning of folly.
Therefore, the full-grown man sets his heart upon
the substance rather than the husk;
Upon the fruit rather than the flower.
Truly, he prefers what is within to what is without.
the substance rather than the husk;
Upon the fruit rather than the flower.
Truly, he prefers what is within to what is without.
Translated by John C. H. Wu
Interpretation by Bill Bernsen
FLOATING
FLOATING
Master’s answer
To self-transformation process
Do more Slow Set
It is the centrifugal weight
That separates
My parts/problems
Slow Set
Is the centrifuges
For self-transformation
Desire
Is to undo
My longings
Slow set
Should end
In harmony
Push hands should
End in armistice
Storms of emotions
End in peace
Don’t try to stop
Thunder/lightning
Once it starts
Rather go inside
Enjoy the show
Same with others
Don’t try
To stop others
From expressing
Themselves
Go inside/enjoy
Like a fulcrum
On a scale
Not wanting or giving
Just there
Oh so important
Those who are
Not connected
Do not see
Masters
Doing nothing
Those connected
See the Masters
Do everything
Be like water
After the splash
Just calm down
Primal simplicity
Is water
When it comes
To a challenge
Be dispassionate
To Hear
What is coming
Calm down
Listen
To the nothing
Empty
Hearing what affects
Peace
If I get an urge
To grow and stir
Return to the basic
Negate desire
Disaffirm intent
During demonstration
Also during art
Perhaps all the time
There is a lack
Of peace
Because of wanting
And intent
To do well
Causes leaning
Forward
During slow set
Do not have intent
The answer
Will come
Intent is a
Misuse of the senses
Especially the 6th sense
Intent = desire = disillusion
Like Gravity
Has intent
To hold
I never
Do anything
Others might enjoy
Tao never speaks
Yet
It says everything
Effects
Of past/present/future
Will rise
Make a commotion
Calm the past
In the present
For the future
Via Slow Set
Stirring!
Go back
To center
Is the secret
To the art
Masters
Are inactive
To those who are
Not connected
Connect
Nothing
Would be undone
Desire will not
Bring it sooner
Be connected
Soon or later
Thru honor/respect
Of the lineage
Show
Disrespect
In any way
I will have
To wait
Longer
If at all
Be prepared
For many tests
Don’t make ado
About not getting it
In partner practice
It will
Be done in time
Having doubt
Do slow set
Having desire
Do slow set
Just go back
To slow set
Thru show set
Sprit/gravity merge
And make man
Like a bellows
Masters
Are thinking solution
Listen to them
Think it
Do not say it
Just like
Masters do
Frugal
Carefully
I never have
A plan for class
I must be at one
With the Masters = Tao
Wait!
Listen!
Negate intent
Negate desire
Abide
By the Masters
All will be fine
Tao = Heart!
Change with Change
81 interpretations
Of the Tao Te Ching
During the changes
Do more slow set
To calm modifications
Harmony arrives
During push hands
The torso
Is hollow
Able to change with change
Abide by this
And unlearn
Aroused
Calmness
Entire being
Earth’s energy
Will guide life
Don’t worry
Masters will take care
Negate desires
During the changes
Hollow
Tao will work thru me
Intent = desire
Desire negates
Peace/harmony
Do make ado
Of $
It will be done
Growth
Can cause desire
Desire to practice
Simply Slow Set
Always return
To Slow Set
To advance
Is to return
To retreat
Is to return
And return
Is to advance
See the secret
Circle here
Never make ado
Masters will
Make do
Tai Chi Chuan
Without intent
Gesture appear
Automatically
Simplicity
Of Slow Set
Curbed desire
To fight
All grows
From Slow Set
Once connected
To Masters
Negate desire
Thru slow set
Undo desire
Undo tension
Undo illness
Earth’s energy enters
Worry
Caused by desires
Undo via practice
Masters take care
Spirit
Is a Master
Man is connected
To Master
Earth is a Master too
Master the secret
The merging
Of heaven and earth
All the above done
Thru Slow Set
By not wanting
There is calm
Tao
Never makes
Any ado
Yet it does everything
When practicing
Don’t think about
Any specific thing
In the form
The Masters will
Ensure everything
The gesture
Never does
It remains calm
All is ready
Master will arrive
Will correct
If the arms and legs
Can remain calm
The body
Will grow aware
Going from
One gesture
To another
Causes friction
Like moving
Two objects
To each other
Same is true
When changing
The mind
From one thought to
Another = Jing
No push hands
Or weapons
Too soon
After transformation
Be active
Get new feeling
Good or bad
Relax it will
Dispassionate
Progress
Instinctively
Ideas would come
From themselves
If they what
To go beyond
One new idea
Caution them
By explaining
The nameless simplicity
Knowing
When to quit
I never do
Masters do
Thru me
Masters
Cannot do anything
Yet they
Leave nothing undone
But they can only
Express them
Thru a student
When I think
I open
To Masters
If ideas
Are separate
In class
Use centrifugal force
To bring them
Together
But independent
Do centrifugal
Slow set
To keep class together
An idea
Is the anchor
Of centrifugal force
Centripetal force…center seeking
Centrifugal force…center fleeing
Outward seeking
Two must be equal
During push hands
Must have centripetal force
In self first
Then go for centrifugal force
Outward seeking
Free of desires
Push hands
Secret of push hands
Tai Chi Chuan
Doing without doing
Push Hands
Is not just physical
Add mental
Practice goes
On forever
When it comes
To applications
After transformation
Applications
Become spontaneous
Become
A centrifugal force
Via slow set
My world
Will settle via slow set
All will transform
Thru slow set
For slow set is
The key
Find it
On my own
By not joining any
Organization
Physically or mentally
About
To make
A stir
Go back
To slow set
Reason
Senior students
Not coming to class
They are getting it
On their own
Worthy ones that is
The gesture
We use
Must be that gesture
That gesture only
Must have control
Over desire
To do something
Other than what I am doing
Once understood
Go to the next level
This is the next gesture
We must all learn
On our own
Learning
What others do
Is a good way
To learn
What not to do
Cannot learn thru
What they learn
It is not me
Learning
Demo is the way
To make/feel
Transition
From self
To others
Thru solo practice
I get to know
Myself well
Then class gives
Experience of going
From self to others
Abide
By the slow set
Students will
Transform
Themselves
I must
Better understand
Tai Chi Chuan
To teach it
Remain still
Others
Will change
See the change
As the Masters
Remain still
Sees me change
Nature remains still
See the Masters change
In push hands
Change
As the opponent
Is still
It seems like
The techniques
Comes spontaneously
Thru slow set
So should
Applications
Impatience
Wanting too much
Too soon
Wanting more than
The moment or posture
Can handle
Return to slow set
Relax and sink
Return to slow set
Should be spontaneous
All new
Feelings/idea
Come from slow set
Must return
To slow set
This is the Tai Chi Circle
Get an idea
Of aligning
Knee/hip from slow set
Apply this to fast set
Push hands/weapon
Do it so much that it
Open heart
To understand
Then practice
Is practicing
One must go thru
The transformation
By
Riding the Dragon
There must be
A centrifugal weight
This holds
The school together
All physics
Apply
To Tai Chi Chuan
Cannot go against
Laws of physics
When teaching or practicing
Spirit is the immune
Origin/insertion
Nature
Is the origin
Tai Chi Chuan
Is the insertion
Change too
Tai Chi Chuan
Is the origin
Master
Is the insertion
Master
Is the origin
Student the insertion
Student
Is the origin
Nature
Is the insertion
Nature
Is the origin
Nature
Accomplishes
Everything
Without doing
Anything
To reach this state
Undo that
This is not
In my nature
Then do something new
This is me
Learn
Change with change
Without a desire
To change
Just change
Look
For the nameless simplicity
Is to stay connected
To the Masters
The centrifugal
Weight which is really
The new idea
Centrifugal tendency
The tendency
To continue
Along a tangent
Thus move away
Form the Center
Some people
Do variations
Because they
Do not know
Master does variations
Because he
Does know
Those who know do not
Say how
Those who
Do not know
Do not know why
Merge with Master
He will continue
Practicing thru me
I am worthy
Strong
Faithful
Have no intent
Listens from center
Stay connected
To his center
Which by the way
Is the same
As the Tao’s center
A center is a center
Adjust according
To its own center
Adjusting
Causes a stir
Primal simplicity
Is having
No intent
Staying open/centered
Curbs intent
No intent
Always receptive
Slow Set
Be a bow
That never lets
The arrows go
Tai Chi Chuan
Is passive
Desire = intent
Intent = no balance
By negating
The fulcrum
Fulcrum always receives
Don’t do it
Just think it
If it is right
It is done
Do to the Tao
Negate intent
Adhere
To apprehension
Undo
Become
An infant again
Only need
Food/clothing/shelter
Negate entertainment
All
Slow Set
Negates urge
To do weapons
Return to Slow Set
Curbs the desire
To Push Hands/weapons
Tai Chi Chuan
Is submissive
When the desire
For push hands/weapons
Is gone
Just slow set
Will do
Stay with slow set
It is the Tao
Urge
To do weapons/push hands
Go back
To slow set
While doing weapons/push hands
Desire will be passivized
And live the Tao
Listen
To the Masters
Via Slow set
Negate desire/intent
Think with KD#1
Earth/China
Transforming
Via Wu We
Via Wu We
Body floating
In sea
Before/during/after
Storm of reality
Kow tow
To the Masters
To support the art
Always open the door
For the Master
Motivated
By inspiration
Not desire
Wu Wei
$
Action of non-action
Under Masters’ care
Be guided
By the Masters
Thru Slow Set
Hindering
Hedonism
Healing
The heart
Desire
Destroys
Demos
Practice!
Do not repeat
The past
It is already
The foundation
Of the present
Practice the future
Don’t desire
Corrections
It impedes
Masters’
Teachings\
It is not me
It is the Masters
Using me
To evolve
The art
Hollow
Of intent
Harmony
With lineage
To live
The secret
Is to return
To slow set
Peaceful
Practice
Desire
Is spirit
Disregarding
Gravity
Must root
To regard
The spirited gesture
While riding
The Dragon
I have no control
Of my direction
An epiphany
Dissolves
Despair
Leading to
Transformation
A tree
Always yields
To pressure
Of the wind
Bending/receiving
Force to roots
Wind subsides
Then back
To pompously
Plumb again.
Transformation
Via simplicity
Of repetition
Lineage makes
No corrections
For the unworthy
Tai Chi fulcrum
Does nothing
But listen/support
Decisions of
Ward off
Rollback
Press
Push
Slow Set
Gestures cannot
Move without
Spirit
Which must be
Rooted
In Gravity
Slow Set
Be apprehensive
With intent
When looking
Forward
To next gesture
Secret to
Tai Chi self-defense
Tai Chi gestures
Poise upon
Mental/physical
Fulcrum to
Change with change
Original
Simplicity
Is DNA
Producing
Jing/Chi