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HE who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know.

Block all the passages!
Shut all the doors!
Blunt all edges!
Untie all tangles!
Harmonize all lights!
Unite the world into one whole!
This is called the Mystical Whole,
Which you cannot court after nor shun,
Benefit nor harm, honor nor humble.

Therefore, it is the Highest of the world.

Translated by John C. H. Wu

Interpretation by Bill Bernsen

COHESION

Learn to listen 

Quietly

Jing Ting

Have no intent

Don’t square off

With others

Harmonize with that 

Around me

This is the mysterious 

Fulcrum

Find this fulcrum

Then things 

Cannot surprise

If I don’t follow

The poem’s advice

The Masters 

Will do it for me

Via tests

Known as

Riding the Dragon

The secret

To entering others 

Have compassion

Mercy 

Be humble

Honor their wishes

Protect self

Evoke 

If I am talking

I am not listening

The only way 

I reach 

The highest level 

Is by riding a Dragon

Speaking 

Can mean 

Internal dialogue

Those who understand

Do not have 

An internal dialogue

Those who do

Don’t understand

Part of apprehension 

Is blocking 

Outside distractions 

Making the body 

One chi

  Must be humble 

To be relaxed 

Do not be influence

Or controlled 

By others

Use ward off

Until I can 

Interpret energy

Shut mouth

Breathe thru nose

Close gate

But remember

Where it is located

In the fence

Blunt sharpness

Using caution

Loosen knots

Don’t make “nots”

In the first place

He who knows 

Does not speak

He thinks it 

If I speak 

I use up 

My chi

 Faster

I must reach 

The mystical whole 

Before I can 

Push hands 

Protest will block

Passages 

To new Ideas

Know self-first 

Shut off 

The outside world 

Solo practice 

Reach the one

Actually returning

To the womb

Go thru what

This poem lists

Prior

 To going further 

In the beginning 

Masters are directing 

Without my knowledge

Suddenly

 I am aware 

Quiet down!

He who is listening

Does not need ears

He who is not listening

Needs loud noise

Block all openings

Secure all accesses

Round all edges

Unfasten all kinks

Complement all light

Unite the body into total

The mystical whole

All the above 

Adds up 

To youth

Just think it 

If there is no talk

I do not know

Means the bellows 

Or hub does not work

Makes for a dull situation

Means alone 

At last

Not so bright

Do not be 

The yin or the yang

Live by the fulcrum within 

Then you have 

Reached the Tai Chi

Do not speak until

I know the mother

(Slow Set)

Then only speak

To the mother

Not her children

Speak to the Mother

As one of her Children

The children 

Should not speak

Ward off all until

Mother is known

Practice only 

Slow set 

For it is 

The mystical whole

Block entertainment

Shut off TV

Blunt parties

Harmonize with spirit/gravity

Practice slow set

Apprehension

Before intent

Senses negate  

Entertainment/reading/socializing

Stay home

No need to go out

Work 

Blunted ambition

Relationships

Untie

A mental 

Alignment too

He who knows

Does not speak

Because he is 

Listening

Merged 

With the Master 

(Nature)

Unite body

 Into whole

During the process

It feels like a hole

Negate intent

Mine and others

Fill the body 

With water/chi

Do not allow any leaks

Via desires

Mystical bow

Achieved this poem

Seek perfection

In all

He who knows

Does not declare

He cannot put it

Into words

He who speaks

Does not know

He is using

Other’s words

Vortexing all day!

It is how we live

Always moving 

Forward

Always rooting 

Into our past

Connect to earth

Imagination

Upward and outward

Downward and inward

Like a coil spring

Future presses downward

Rooting into the past

This spring forward

Into the vortexing future

Become anti-social

To find self

Then once

Known 

Listen to others

Ward off bad 

 Press good

Push balance

Close down 

Amusement

He who knows

Does not speak

Has apprehension 

He who speaks

Does not know

Has intent

No people

To speak to

Is silent 

Ward off

Those who know

Just think it

Those who do not know 

Talk it

Wu Wei 

To receive

Tai Chi Chuan

Unblock

Blocked body

Open all joints

Sharpen all senses

Negate all worries

Focus on a single idea (light)

Be one with environment

Do the above

New energy

 Will appear

Quiet 

6th sense 

Answer will come 

Staying home 

Staying to myself 

Stay, stay, stay 

Halt, halt, halt 

The news

Marry body/mind

With the oneness

Of Tai Chi Chuan

True enlightenment

May take

Day/week/month/year/decade

A life time

From me is took 

A minuet

And 40 years

To remove blockages

While Riding the Dragon

Draining all chi 

Unite body

As one chi 

Return with Jing/Chi

He who knows

Contact/control

Does not talk about it

Those that know

Understand 

Without words

He who talks 

About the above 

Is not connected

To the lineage 

During workshop/camp 

My form was not good

This is O.K.

It keeps the secret 

For I am 

A paper dragon 

Once merged

With the lineage

Cannot be wooed/ damaged

9 Steps Bridge 

Listen 

Ward off all 

Rollback unite all 

Press news 

To future 

Push to create 

Block outside 

Open inside gates 

Tai Chi Chuan 

Repairs

Reason for 

Other teacher here

Caused me

To withdraw

From large classes

Seeking the Tai Chi

Thru solo practice

Who knows 

Does not speak

But does

Understand the feeling

But cannot put it 

Into words

But every so often 

An artist will

Express it

Perhaps this journal 

Is expressing it

Those who speak 

Do not know

They don’t have feeling 

So they scientifically try 

To express the method 

To get it

Trying easy ways to it

Tricks/ Bragging

Old problems/worries/hang-ups

Is part of the opening

Of the mind/body

Enigmatic 

Equilibrium

Most people

Do not make it 

To this point 

Of seeing

 Nature/feeling

The balance of life

Cannot be loved 

Nor hated

Reason is a fulcrum

If someone or thing 

Gets too close 

To our extremes 

The is a counter balance

Their action 

To remain

Level headed

Finding the fulcrum

One cannot 

Be furthered

Nor harmed

Plus, and minus

Cannot influence me

Protected by 

The Masters

Righteousness and humiliation

Cannot influence me

Cannot lose face

Because I knows 

What to do 

Before the event 

Takes place

Tai Chi Chuan 

The bubble 

In the level

Become a fulcrum

Whole body 

Is reflected

In senses

Every point 

Is in balance

Keep balance 

In feet

All organs

Are in balance

The Masters 

Followed nature

Students are part

Of nature

Just listen

To Masters

Sixth sense aligns 

With my 

Eyes/ears/nose/mouth/gesture

Block Chi-kung

Shortcut leads 

To short sightedness

No other teachers

The teachers knows 

Speaks only during class

He is the conduit

For the lineage

The oneness

Cannot court after 

Nor shun

Benefit 

Nor harm

Neither honor 

Nor humble

Useless one

Is worthy

If I do know 

About it

Talk 

About it

The talk will cause

Desire in others

This can be destructive

By working on 

Hips and legs 

I am melding 

Ice of age

Becoming

A fluid fulcrum 

An infant again

Those who don’t talk

Seem disinterested

Those who talk

I am not interested in

The mysterious 

Leveling

Is the Master

Working in me

Those who have faith

Don’t need to talk 

To those who 

Do not have faith

Who only chat

Close mouth

Hear 

Masters instruction

Silent senses

More of a receiver

Teaching 

The Masters

Talk thru me

So I can talk 

In class

If speaking 

Not listening

He who knows 

To push 

Does not push

Just locates 

Center and control 

He who is constantly 

Pushing 

Is not listening 

Cannot talk 

Way into it

Cannot talk 

Others into it

Don’t have to talk 

Just think it

Must use feelings more 

Show what I feel

Then show 

I understand

Worthy ones

Will connect

I think it 

Is the openness

That the Masters 

Can enter into 

The picture

Feel it 

With 6th sense

The merging 

Of the lineage 

Masters to teacher 

To students

Once connect 

It is forever

Must become part

Of the whole history

Of Tai Chi Chuan

Grandmaster Tung Ying-chieh’s 

Fist into my chest 

Causes an immediate

Alertness and root-ness

Then my gestures are

The avenue 

To the heart

Don’t do anything 

That unbalances

Levelheadedness

Relating all 

Tao Te Ching poems

To each morning practice

It seems like 

All insights 

Are getting shorter 

More concise

What I am doing 

Is the oneness  

The oneness

With the lineage

Cannot be realized

Unless one Kow tows

To the Masters

Shadowy leveling

Do not use 

The five senses

To do the leveling

Includes the touch sense 

If there is a fulcrum 

Between partners

Must not try 

To left up or push down 

On other 

To level 

Get heavier or lighter 

Depending on him

Listen and follow

This is done 

In mind/body

Get something 

New 

Is arrival 

Student/teacher 

Relationship

Is unique

A real way

Of finding

Tai Chi Chuan

Relationship

Alignment 

Most important 

Align before 

Muscles build up

A worthy 

Tai Chi Chuan student

Knows about the Masters 

But does not speak 

Stop socializing 

Don’t have sharp answers 

Tangled thoughts 

Feel dexterity

Let it unite

With students

Mysterious arrangement

Do when going 

Thru the changes

Ward off/rollback/press/push

Ways into heart

Ward off/rollback/press/push

Conflicts with others

Round 

All gestures

When learning knife

Do not go beyond

Edge of the knife 

First learn 

To listen

To teacher

Then self

Next knife 

Last others

He who knows 

Does not speak 

Masters speak thru him

He who speaks 

Does not know 

The Masters are not in him

He is not worthy 

A class is defined

As a place

Where the Masters

Are attending 

Thru somebody

In the room

If connected

Master can speak 

To me 

Without words 

I never do anything 

That I might enjoy

Is a way 

To tell me to go 

To the cave 

On top of the mountain

Withdraw and get 

To know self 

Then once discovered self 

Look for it in others

Show it 

Open to them 

Discover greater wonders

Those who know

Limit the use of

Their 5 senses 

And rely on

Their 6th sense

Those who 

Totally rely 

On 5 senses 

Do not know 

When others approach

Use your 6th sense

Will never 

Be pushed or pulled 

Of balance

This is Tai Chi Chuan

Perhaps I am 

Now ready

To write a book

About Tai Chi

Via the Tao Te Ching

He who speaks badly 

Of his teacher 

Is not worthy 

To continue

Don’t deliberate  

Out loud

Don’t read books

Others words

Find own ideas

Spiritual 6th sense 

In which the Master 

Is motivated

Move in accordance 

With the 6th sense

This is a direct link 

To the Masters

Feel subtlety 

Of spirit 

Let it combine 

Others’ gravity

Be physically 

Strong/elastic 

To be able 

To be light 

Like a mist or steam

To merge 

With others 

If a person 

Is cold merge 

With them as steam 

To warm 

If they are hot cover 

In cool mist

The only way

To do the above

Is by listening

To them

Following them

Use 6th sense

Unite the body

To heaven and earth

Divine humble gestures

Unite the body

Into a fulcrum

Wisdom = fulcrum

Lifting unites

Body into oneness

With spirit/gravity

Hence a Master

Avoid

Family/friends/foes

To harmonize

With Masters

To achieve

Tai Chi Chuan

Be “Still” 

And know

Align

Spirit/gravity

Pledge

Body/mind

Via Slow Set

Upstarts

Should

Start over

Merge

With the lineage

Of time/space

Ward-off

To find rollback

To discover press

To discern when

To push

While in a state 

Of Yu Pei Shih

Oneness

With spirit/gravity

Tai Chi Chuan

Sacrament

Block the past

Practice in the present

Seek the evolution

Of the art

Ward off

Worthless

Oneness

With universe

Micro and macro

He who has

Apprehension

Knows

He who has

Intent 

Does not know

Heartfelt to all

To know

Ward-off

To be one

With the lineage

Be a ventriloquist

For the Masters

Ward off

To be unabridged

Unite

Body/being

With one

Jing/Chi

Solo practice

Is a reclusive

Private class

With Master

Mystical mission

Is to covertly

Reunite Masters

To China

Via Tai Chi Chuan

Clear

Cosmic

Conduit

Between

Masters

And China 

10-12-21

The worthy

Quietly hear

The lineage

The unworthy

Loudly cannot

Mystical

Accord

Merging

Spirit to gravity

Master to China

Bow to bow

Unite

Spirit/gravity

Master/China

To achieve

A mystical

Movement

Assume not

To not assume

Do not impede

Intuition

Goal is to

Cultivate

Those who talk

Do not understand

Seeking reactions 

From others

Those who 

Do not talk

Understand via

Solo practice

A heartfelt

Oneness with

Master

Torso 

A tornado

Pelvis

A whirlpool

Waist

Wringing 

Wisdom

Without words

Slow Set

Silently

Clear

Body conduit

Between

Spirit/gravity

The lineage

Does not speak

To unworthy

Who think

They know

There is a spiritual

Sinew between

Master and student

Tai Chi Chuan

No words

Necessary when

Thinking about

Future

Use 6th sense

Feeling

The present

Use 5 senses

Together rooted

In the past

Yu Pei Shih

Unites

Spirit/gravity

Those who hear

Lineage 

Know

Those who ignore

Lineage

Never know

Tai Chi Chuan

Overhaul

Slow Set

By beginning

Again for the

First time

Ward off

He who thinks

He knows

Rollback

He who does

Not know

Press solo

Practice to

Know on

Your own

Push

Persistent

Practice

Spirit calls 

Gravity calls

Song-kai calls

Yu Pei Shih calls

Jing/Chi calls

Gesture calls

Spirited practice