Wednesday, February 24, 2016

46

46
WHEN the world is in possession of the Tao,
The galloping horses are led to fertilize the fields
 with their droppings.
When the world has become Taoless,
War horses breed themselves on the suburbs.
There is no calamity like not knowing what is enough
There is no evil like covetousness
Only he who knows what is enough will always have
 enough
Translated by John C. H. Wu
Interpretation by Bill Bernsen

SOLO PRACTICE
When in possession 
Of the Tao 
Body repairs itself
Taoless
Fear/injury
Set in
Tai Chi Chuan 
Returns body/mind
Back to youth
When in possession 
Of the Tao 
Metal weapons
Cannons/swords 
Become art objects
When there is 
No opponent
Use the sword 
To exercise the body
Slicing 
My shortcomings
When I understand 
Tai Chi Chuan 
I never have to use it
But I use it when 
I don’t
Contentment/enough
Be content 
In form 
To under reach 
Use the entire body 
In a gesture 
Is wrong 
To over reach 
Go beyond 
Using the entire body
Year of the Horse
Work for power
Pride/presence
Take a horse
Knowing self 
Means 
Knowing 
Limitations
Tai Chi Chuan (TAO) 
Allows me 
To reach 
A little further 
Each day 
And 
Change with change
Change with change
Enough is enough
Enough is enough
So change with change
Enough
Enough is enough
Change with change
Listen to listen
When I feel 
No competition
I work 
On my health
Did I find 
Tao inside me
Heaven/earth merging 
At my heart
Reason 
For classes/students
Is to discover/test 
The art 
For the Masters


Enough
Do not take it 
To martial level yet
Ride horse 
To heal 
Not harm
Enough!
Food/clothing/shelter/work/entertainment
Chinese word 
For enough…kou4
Heal
Don’t harm
Do no harm
To self or others
Ask is this 
Harmful to me? 
If yes
Stop 
I have had enough 
Entertainment/education
Knowledge by others
Try and uncover
That which is inside 
This is part 
Of the healing process
I will call it detoxing
What is enough 
Entertainment
Yesterday, today, tomorrow
Greediness
Wrongfully
 Desirous
Stop thinking
About entertainment
Sex and violence
To improve my
Tai Chi Chuan
Fulcrum
Practice solo
Repair self
Practice 
With others
Prepare self
Practice Tai Chi Chuan 
Learn civil first
Knowing self
Martial is to protect
That which learned  
This only happens 
If I have virtue 
Listen to Masters
When practicing
Know when 
Enough is enough
Master knows 
When enough is enough
Listen to him
When I am 
Creating
There are no 
Other desires
Know when
 Time/space
Is enough
Morning practice
Enough is enough.
I must be practicing
The Tao
Because I have no desire
To prove 
My push hands
When practicing 
Slow set 
The body 
Is being repaired 
Ignore slow set 
Illness will return
Use the bow 
Energy
To repair self
Know when enough
Energy is enough
Tai Chi Chuan 
Practice 
With Tao
 In mind repairs 
Without Tao 
Injury
 To self/others
Practice
For health 
Energy fertilizes body 
Ignore health 
Breeding for injury 
Brought on 
By war
During slow set 
Focus on
Body
 Not future opponent 
What is enough 
When it comes 
To new feelings/ideas 
Each day
Body will tell 
Don’t be greedy 
When it comes 
To new ideas 
Practice time is also 
To confirm 
Previous ideas/feeling
When practicing 
Tai Chi Chuan
Gather/repair
Slow set 
Repairs 
Fighting 
Defeats repairs
Am I 
Now 
In possession 
Of the art
Enough entertainment 
Possession 
Of Tao 
Is love of it
Tao 
At the Depot 
I must be in a Taoist 
State of mind 
To create
Tao = health/happiness
Not Tao = illness/sad
Fulcrum tells 
When 
Enough is enough
There is nothing 
More egregious 
Than craving
Entire slow set
Is enough
To understand
A new idea
The wrist 
Communicates 
To the waist 
What is happening 
Decides 
What enough is 
When aware 
Of the Tao 
Perfectly aligned
Body/mind 
Enough
Practice 
To the point
Of enough 
I must be practicing 
Correctly 
I am not thinking 
About fighting
But rather repairing
When not thinking
About push hands
Chi repairs
Know what 
Enough is 
Have enough 
When in the Tao 
Practice slow set 
To heal 
Practice slow set
Healing/returning
Practice push hands
Sharing healing/returning
When I fight I am
Harming self and others
Slow Set fertilizes 
The body for hearth 
Fighting
Fuels harm
There is no greater
Blockage 
Than intent
Stay with apprehension
Leave intent 
To spirit/gravity
Causes elasticity
Enough entertainment
Alignment/foundation 
First 
Is enough
When passive
I am the Tao
Receiving universal chi
Body knows 
When enough 
Is enough
Practice 
For health/happiness 
Not harmfulness 
When practicing 
Slow set
I am healing 
Body/mind
When I ignore 
Slow set
Illness/problem 
Set in
TAO = no entertainment
Enough is enough 
More if strong/wise 
Enough
Moderating 
Of desire or ambition
Wanting 
To do the next gesture
To live with 
What other reject 
Is contentment
The more I
 Desire a particular thing 
The more powerful it gets
Taking my thoughts
Scarp iron 
Is left to rust
Melting metal pots 
To make cannons 
Instead of plows
One plow 
Can feed a 1000 
One cannon 
Can kill a 1000
Be content 
In present gesture
Greatest shortcoming 
Is to possess
What everyone else 
Possesses
Be content
Teaching slow set 
Is living
Teaching fighting 
Is using the postures
To destroy
Don’t have 
The martial intent
In Tai Chi Chuan
Instead have openness 
Hear others intent 
Partner practice 
To adjust 
To others
The real 
Tai Chi Chuan 
Is healing self/others
Living in a small village 
Far and away 
From other martial arts 
Is the way 
To find and live
By the Tao 
Contentment 
Of contempt
For material power
And wealth
Learning weapons 
Too soon 
Makes the sword 
A weapon
And not a tool
Complete 
Stop the war 
With self 
Then concentration 
On higher levels 
Of the slow set
Teaching 
In accordance
With the Tao
I am teaching 
Tai Chi Chuan
If my school 
Has become 
Disconnected 
From the Masters 
I am just teaching 
Fighting 
Slow set is enough!
Desire = greed
Be apprehensive
 About other 
Teachers/forms
Turned plows 
Into swords for war 
Now there is a war 
Against the earth 
The plows are cutting 
The earth 
As swords use to cut flesh 
Throw away the plow 
As we discarded the sword 
Just plant the seeds 
Pull the immediate weed
Intent and apprehension
Tao = fulcrum
Intent = searching
Apprehension=listening
Find fulcrum
Weight as to 
What is enough
To stay balance
With the Tao
Know when 
Enough is
Leads 
To having enough
Instructions 
From Nature/Masters
He who has 
Tai Chi Chuan
Turns weapons 
Into tools
Find the fulcrum
To measure 
What is enough
Enough entertainment
Find the fulcrum
To measure 
What is enough
Yin or Yang 
Negate greed
Focusing on
Push hands/weapons
Blocks new ideas 
Found in slow set
First find it 
In slow set
Then confirm 
In weapon/push hands
When Masters 
Are present
They correct 
Slow set
When they are 
Ignored
Ego takes over
 And intent reigns
Masters say what 
Is enough
Must be worthy 
To hear the advice
Solo practice
Connected 
To Masters
Get what is needed 
Group practice
Envy/discontentment/coveting
Blocks the lineage
Enough = fulcrum
Masters
Say enough
Is contentment
Advancing
In the art
Contended
Practice
The Masters control
My practice
Knowing what/when
I have had enough
Not listening 
To the Masters
Causes depression
Yi4 Yu4
Contentment
When listening
Life
In 3 stages
  1. Accumulate
  2. Organize
  3. Eliminate
Enough said
Masters control
when enough
Is enough
Warriors
Don’t worry
About the past
Nor future
Only focus
On the present
This is enough

When students
Practice to master
Slow set first
Health and happiness
Prevails
Neglect slow set
All the weapons
Are not enough
Civil practice
Heals
Martial practice
Harms
Find contentment
In Slow Set
That is enough
Practice
Slow Set
To disregard
Weapons
Envy 
Of other’s
Epiphany 
Can lead to
Errors
On the way
Don’t
Malpractice
Passive
Practice
Is enough
Contentment
In connection
To lineage
Lineage
Guides
Practice 

Epiphany

A day

Is enough

For eternity

7 poisonous 

To my practice

Excess

Laziness

Egotism

Anger

Jealousy

Desire

Insatiable

Bad intent

Is negated

With apprehension

To continue

There

Is never

Enough

Eternity 

Spirit/gravity

Unite

Rejuvenation

Arrives

Tai Chi Chuan

Practice can

Be palliative

Once an 

Insight

Prevails

Rest to make 

Room for an

Ensuing

Epiphany

Practicing

Slow Set

Never 

Enough 

When 

Slow Set rules

Practice

Joints/sinews

Rejuvenate

When 

Push Hands

Dominates

Body deteriorates

When Slow Set

Practice rules

New ideas

Flourish

Weapons

Practice without

New ideas from

Slow Set

Flaws in form

Will rule

Master is present

When worthy

Student practices

Slow Set

Practice without

Master 

Becomes

Malpractice

Being content

With Slow Set

Is enough

It is the bases

Of all else

Slow Set

I sing 

Body elastic

Each gesture

Reaching into 

Future

Anchored in

Past 

Heartfelt

Tai Chi gestures

Rejuvenate

Heartless

Gestures

Lead to

Folly

Slow Set

Practice

With civil intent

Rejuvenation

In view

When practiced

With martial intent

Vehemence in view.

An epiphany

A day

Should bring

Serenity to

Slow Set

Slow Set

Conveys alignment

Of Spirit/gravity

A Content conduit 

If weapons 

To soon

Calamity sets in

Slow Set

Rejuvenates

Weapons/push hands

Revitalizes

Not retaliate

When Slow Set

Rules practice

Gestures become

Reflective

11-19-23

 


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