Wednesday, February 24, 2016

41

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WHEN a wise scholar hears the Tao,
He practices it diligently.
When a mediocre scholar hears the Tao,
He wavers between belief and unbelief.
When a worthless scholar hears the Tao,
He laughs boisterously at it.
But if such a one does not laugh at it,
The Tao would not be the Tao!
The wise men of old have truly said:
The bright Way looks dim.
The progressive Way looks retrograde.
The smooth Way looks rugged.
High Virtue looks like an abyss.
Great whiteness looks spotted.
Abundant Virtue looks deficient.
Established Virtue looks shabby.
Solid Virtue looks as though melted.
Great squareness has no corners.
Great talents ripen late.
Great sound is silent.
Great Form is shapeless.
The Tao is hidden and nameless;
Yet it alone knows how to render help and to fulfill.
Translated by John C. H. Wu
Interpretation by Bill Bernsen


CREATIVITY
When a worthy 
Student 
Hears the Master 
He practices 
Anytime/anyplace 
Thinking about
Grandmaster Yang Lu-Chan
I looked at his picture
On my wall
He had eagle eyes
Tai Chi Chuan 
Have two names
Yin and yang
It is a fulcrum
Feeling 
Two sides 
At once
Tai Chi Chuan 
Is passion
It makes dim bright
Retreat progress
Rugged smooth
Deep shallow
Melted solid
Fill empty
Empty full
Becoming 
A child again
By returning
To slow set 
Constantly
Laughing
Crying
Angry
Alone
The great 
Of everything 
Seems 
Not great enough 
Greatest insight 
Is only great 
Then something 
Superior
Appears
Few follow 
The art
Some wander 
Into/out of it 
Offer it 
It is a drunken joke
To fools
This is how 
It is protected 
Standing inside 
The square
Cannot see the corners
Two ways 
To look
For the corners
Go higher above
Look down
Go forward
In the direction 
Of the corner
Approach a corner
Neglecting 
The other corners
Find out the corner
Approaching 
Is really rounded
Ancient China 
Believed
Earth is square 
Heaven is round 
Now we know 
Earth is round 
Heaven on earth 
Heaven has corners 
Of ideas 
Religion 
Tai Chi Chuan 
Practice ends 
When I realize 
I am undoing
What I previously 
Learned
Practice it 
All day
All my life
It seems to disappear
But it is always there
I write 
It down too
Hear it
Follow it
It will lead
Elasticity
The secret to stretching
Can I hear 
Rubber band stretching 
Can I see 
The stretching 
Can I smell 
Stretching energy
Can I taste 
Intent
Can I feel 
Ending
Be more meticulous
Practice becomes 
What I need 
It to be
A fulcrum 
For life
Listen 
To yin/yang 
Of the situation

Diligence
Vigilance
Perseverance
The road
To Tai Chi Chuan
Seems retrograde
Perhaps illness/injury
Is part of the retrograde
Or rejuvenation
Think about it 
Assiduously 
Use body too     
The dedicated student 
Receives 
A new feeling/idea 
Accepts it 
Stores it inside 
Mind/body 
Becomes part 
Of him forever
When Masters 
Correct
Toil all day
To understand
Listen
Weight both sides 
Of everything
This is Tai Chi Chuan 
Fulcrum
Practice diligently
To be 
An industrious 
Master
The way 
To push
Is to think 
Of pull
Results in elasticity
Tests 
By Masters
Art toiling
Progresses 
Seems 
To withdrawals
Insightful 
Originality
Appears unsown
Be assiduous
Conscientious 
Practice
Not just physical
Mental too
Parallel
Many are called
But few chosen
Matthew 22:14
The vortex 
In the Tan tien 
Have no corners
The greatest power 
Is wisdom 
It always comes 
With age 
Great voices
Cannot be heard
With the 
unworthy ear 
Highest level 
Of Tai Chi Chuan 
Has no silhouette 
When a student 
Asks how long 
It will take
To learn Tai Chi Chuan
Tell them Tao Te Ching #41
Practice
To train
Thoroughly
Diligent practice 
Of the femur fulcrum
Change with change 
Only by being 
Elastic in the spine
Between
Spirit/gravity  
The way
To understanding
Looks unclear
Insight
Out of sight
Enhancements 
Seems like
Extraction 
Insightful 
Imagination 
Seems uncultivated  
Sturdiest control
Appears scrawny
Tao is hidden 
Has no name 
I’ll name it Tai Chi
Fulcrum
Center of gravity
An idea 
Slow Set 
Alone 
Nourishes 
And fulfills 
All forms
And the future
To open 
Is to
Open upward/outward
To close
 Is to
Open downward/inward
 More open
The more chi gathered
Stowed
Practice above diligently
Practice above diligently
Practice above diligently
Repeating shows
Diligence

High virtue 
Seems hollow 
Unique feeling
Of coil spring 
Opening
Pressure down 
Into feet
Pressure up to hands
Percussion
Of postures
Master Yang Cheng-fu said
First learn to open 
Then close
Opening 
Building 
A bigger spring 
Closing is compacting 
The spring 
Into a vortex
The above opens
Every cell in body
Both directions
Moves starting 
In KD#1 
Bottom of foot
Body feels 
Likes a whip 
Anchored 
At the feet 
If opponent 
Presses on me
KD#1 presses down 
On earth 
And responses 
Like a coil spring 
Diligently look for
The fulcrum
In everything
Always Jing/Chi 
From earth/China
It is 
Life/immortality 
Pronounced 
Ability 
Matures late 
Masters 
Are hidden
Unless student 
Is worthy
Has a 6th sense
To receive 
Guidance
Great space
Has no junction
Be aware 
Of the Masters
Keep a creative mind 
Tai Chi is the point
In between
The old and the new
The old gives way
To the new
The new is built
Upon the old
The process is 
Found in Slow Set
The worthy student 
Hears the master 
He will practice 
Get the urge 
To practice
Practice
It might be
A silent order
From the Masters
Average 
Abilities
Certainty/skepticism
Doubt
Little ability
Giggles at it
Giggle is evidence 
Of the profound
Tai Chi Chuan 
Is not for everybody
Difficult 
Is a sign
Of something new
Is coming
To solve 
The problem
Advancing 
Looks 
As if it 
Is retreating
Flexibly
Forward and back
A large container 
Takes the longest 
To fill
A good student
Does not demo his form
While it is still
Being learned
Always being aware 
Of the other’s 
Time/space 
To get to know others
Somebody seems like nobody
Nobody seems like somebody
                                Master’s words
Shadow of darkness
While riding 
On a dragon
Of diligent training

When practicing 
Be aware 
Of the good feeling
But keep working 
On the shortcomings
If not, it will lead
To shorter good feelings
Hear an idea
Write it down 
Ponder it 
To improve it
Feel a technique
Practice it
Many are called
few are chosen…
Matthew 22:14
Correct practice 
Looks dull/dim
Just doing form practice
Is not engaging
Until an epiphany
Arrives
Advancing
Looks regressive
Like drawing a bow
To advance the arrow
Practice
 Is always 
Circular
Going back
 To the beginning
It is the circumference 
The pi of infinity 
Practice 
Is high and low
Like a wave 
It takes a ocean
Of energy

Fa Jing
Kong Jing 
Looks and feels
Like endless 
Elasticity c
What is perfect 
White 
Looks spotted
The spots are 
The new ideas
Each one 
Of the proverbs
Circle back 
To the beginning
Statement
Bring on a new Idea
This must be experienced
Parallel
Several 
Are summoned
But limited taken
The vortex 
In the Tan tien 
Have no corners
The supreme control
Is wisdom
Always comes with age
Greatest voice
Cannot be heard
With the unworthy ear
Highest level 
Of Tai Chi Chuan 
Has no shape 
Because it is as unique 
As the spirit 
When the wise 
Student
Gets a new feeling
He is worthy
When a wise student
Gets a correction
He practices it
Attentively
Obtaining wisdom
Great roundness 
Looks straighten
Must get to point 
Of being calm 
With the unknown
Mild
With the mysterious
Be aware 
Of the pure
But keep 
Smudged
Get the urge 
To practice
Practice!
Urge to not practice
Practice!
When a wise warrior 
Senses danger
He is safe
The tactic
To applications
Seems blocked
Circles back 
To beginning
Start over looking
For misalignment
Spiritually/physically
It is inflexible 
If not listening 
Virtue should 
Not have intent 
Must go beyond
Shortcomings/mistakes
Be aware 
Of mistakes
Look beyond 
The mistakes
With passion
This cannot 
Be a mistake
The seed or idea 
Comes from nowhere 
It just appears 
If I am worthy
Moving on 
The Tai Chi Chuan
Path 
Feels 
Like riding Dragon 
Relentlessly adjusting 
Body/mind 
To the  unpredictable moves
Boundless mind
Has no limit
The greatest gesture
Does not stop
It may live in
Mind forever
Get a new idea 
Practice it 
Thru out 
Time/space
Humbly slow set 
Can improve/perfect
Slow Set 
Touches
The emotions
Passion
Perfects
The postures
Do to a lack 
Of students
I am practicing 
More conscientiously
Slow set 
Encourages/accomplishes 
Applications
To get it 
Practice diligently
Thru hard-working practice 
Use energy 
This must be renewed
Done by nourishing 
With new ideas 
During the practice
Masters
Tests arise 
As does 
My awareness 
Facing the opposite 
Of anything
Want to go forward 
But feel like 
Going backward 
This is chi
Going from one 
To the other moving 
With mind
Tai chi is being aware 
Of the above 
At the time being 
A fulcrum
Being pulled think 
Being pushed 
Which = elasticity
Opposites = elasticity
The worthy student 
Connects
To the Masters 
Practices for them
Next the non-connected 
Ambivalent student quits
The unworthy students 
Never joint 
The lineage
Cannot balance 
Yin and yang
Without a fulcrum
Of the mind
Must practice
The above meticulously
Diligently practice 
Morning Slow Set
Something new
Confirmed
Thru out the day
In all forms
Diligently practice
The above
Spirit and gravity
The Masters 
Are hidden
From the unworthy
Fulfill the worthy
Thru endless tests
Hollow has containment
Full contains the empty
Masters fill or empty
I am the fulcrum 
In between
My demo
Master sees it
What he sees is good
And makes corrections
Others see it
See bad
Some laugh at it
They do not see
 What the Master sees
Using 
Tai Chi fulcrum
Imagine Yang
Envisage Yin
Now balanced
They laugh 
At my demos
Not for long
Practice vigorously
Masters are watching
Important part 
Of practice
Is creativity
The creative part
Is hidden from 
The unworthy
Diligent practice
Means reeling silk
With previous practice
Muck is the foundation
Of life
Diligent practice
Until understood 
With passion
Repairs seem
Worse than 
The original
Injury/illness
Tai Chi Chuan
Helps/not hurts
Whatever I have
Done to this date
Must be right
Because I am 
Still practicing
Diligently
Now
Persistence
Practice
Diligently
Reeling silk
With lineage
Despair
Is a sign
Of development
My gestures
Look bad outside
But are good
Inside
Diligent
Thru-out the day
Leads to 
An epiphany
In the evening
Testing
Tenacity
Doing
Is acknowledging
Undoing
Systematically
Practice yin
To know yang

Tai Chi Chuan

Practice

Is an eternal

Ride on a dragon

Only for the worthy

When I see

Good and evil

At the same time

I am standing

On a Tai Chi fulcrum

Depression

Like 

Percussion

Is always

Down

Before 

Up

Diligent

Devotion

Has

Deceptions

Diversions

Song-kai

Loose/open

Is the secret

The way

To enlightenment

Can be

Eerie

The worthy

Are aware

Of the 6th sense

That is Tao

Masters’

Guidance

During

Diligent

Daily

Solo practice

Investing

In loss

Via

Diligent

Detailed

Repairs

Squat

To practice

Percussion

Testing

Tenacity

Can be

Quite nasty

The worthy 

Appear 

To be wrong

To the unscrupulous

Which is wise

Teaching

Tests

Tenacity

Conversely

Tests 

Training

Diligent

Daily

Practice

Is a duty

Even during

Dark times

Learning/practicing

Tai Chi Chuan

Is like

Balancing on

The tip 

Of a sword

Master is 

Maneuvering

The sword

Diligently

Riding Dragon

Thru a thick

Forest of

Theories

Serious

Slow Set

Senses

Subliminal

Secrets

Practice 

With body

As a bow

Aim for perfect

Spiritual/physical

Targeted  form

Tai Chi Chuan

Secret

Concealed

The obvious

Is an obstacle

Three are

Called to

Tai Chi Chuan

Worthy/exceptional student

Is accepted

The mediocre

Student

Is not

Infantile/inferior

Student

Is ignored

Diligent

Practice

Without an

Epiphany

Is mediocre

And rightly

Ridiculed

Past/present/future

In time and space

Grandmaster Yang Lu-chan

Is alive and present

If the worthy student

Is listening

Slow Set

As the worthy

Student practices

So, does lineage

Leading student

In a evolutionary

Endeavor 

Tai Chi Chuan

Slow Set

An assiduous

Venture

Immersed into 

Elusive

Insights

Determination

Is the secret

To diligent

Duty

Tai Chi Chuan

Between

Spirit and gravity

A hidden 

Elastic thread

5 senses 

Unconscious of it

Only 

6th sense

Grasp it 

Tai Chi gestures

Are decided

With a Tai Chi

Fulcrum/scale

Calibrated

With heart  

Slow Set

Assiduous

Practice

Is spiritually

Demanding

Body conduit

Between

Spirit And gravity

Hidden

Contradictions

Plumb practice

Realigns

Arrives

Slow Set

Each diligent 

Gesture

Nourishes its

Application 

Diligent

Practice

Denies

Deterioration

Inspiring

Determination

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