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THE Tao is the hidden Reservoir of all things.
A treasure to the honest, it is a safeguard to
the erring.
A good word will find its own market.
A good deed may be used as a gift to another.
That a man is straying from the right path
Is no reason that he should be cast away.
Hence, at the Enthronement of an Emperor,
Or at the Installation of the Three Ministers,
Let others offer their discs of jade, following it up
with teams of horses;
It is better for you to offer the Tao without moving
your feet!
Why did the ancients prize the Tao?
Is it not because by virtue of it he who seeks finds,
And the guilty are forgiven?
That is why it is such a treasure to the world.
Translated by John C. H. Wu
Interpretation by Bill Bernsen
HIDDEN
Give Master
The treasure
Of my understanding
A gift
Of acknowledgement
Learning
Relax/calm
Listen/follow
Admit
To truth
Return
Respectable
Make Tai Chi Chuan
A guard (ward off)
Of evil
Allow my sanctuary (studio)
To not be invaded
By thieves of
Negative thoughts
Chamber
Is my body
An environment
Practice area
First learn
Ward off
In my heart
Eventually it
Will reach
Far and wide
The practice/class area
Is where I can
Open my heart
Without being injured
Hence learn
About myself
Where my heart
Is at this time
In my life
The highest level
Of ward off
Is Master
Providing
His students
With his own
Ward off
To project
Students from foes
When I no longer
Need the Masters
I have reached
Tai Chi Chuan
How do I get
To someone’s
Emotions
By first clearing
My own
So
My true feeling
Heart
Can reach out
I must have
Inner smile
In my form
Show it
In my eyes
Slow Set
Stealthy source
Of all applications
If someone
Is not aware
Of the secret
Don’t discard him
But learn from him
As what not
To do
Tai Chi Chuan
is being able
To make a weapon
Into a tool
Instead of giving
My opinion
Just be still
And offer Tao
True giving
A deed
To people
In need
A bad word
Will find
Its own market
Wantonly
Masters
Don’t just give me
A gift
They gave me
A treasure
Difference
Between
Knowing
The path
Taking
The path
Ask the earnest
Using
Joints properly
Full rotation
Is using the Tao
These new
Ideas/feelings
During each practice
Have recruited me
Into the Tao
In push hands
Do not cast away
The opponent
Rather ward off
His bad chi
If connected
To the Masters
Errors are usually
A test
By the Masters
A good teacher
Will be
With students
24/7
Seek
Find
Think it
Do not do it
A Taoist test
A good word
By the Master
Will find the student
If the student
Is worthy
Taping
Into the Tao
Think it
Feel it
Do not say it
Tai Chi Chuan classes
No one
Should be cast away
Why?
Because they were called
To the class
Only the Masters
Can decide on whom
Stays
Who goes
It is better
To teach
And then
Journey away
Chinese treasure!
Tai Chi Chuan
Is a treasure
Located in China
Must connect to China
Via the Masters
A good gesture
Will find its own
Application
I know not
Without Slow Set
If a student
Is straying
Away from the school
They should be able
To return
Anytime
Treat everyone
The same
The worthy
Will reveal
True feelings
Don’t order students
What they should do
Lead by example
Straying student
No reason
They be exiled
Pay less attention
But stay connected
Open
To the Tao!
Smile when going
Into push hands
Means our heart
Is open
Do not fear
Just follow with
Ward off
A grin
Heart = Tao!
Offer
The Masters
A conduit
To practice
Lineage
Is the unseen
Source
Of all gestures
The bow
And bow
Is hidden
Masters
Will find
A worthy student
Offer
Tai Chi Chuan
Without advertising
The worthy
Will come
Seek!
Tao
Is center of gravity
All that surrounds it
Masters = Tao
Show set
Is the secret
To long life
A secret
Is the Jing
It is hidden
A bow and bow
Coil spring
Has hidden Jing
It is the secret
To Tai Chi Chuan
Listen
To nature
The good
And the bad
Weigh it
With a fulcrum
Good intent
Is like water
It can enter
Anywhere
Tai Chi Chuan
Is the chi
For all endeavors
A Chinese treasure
He who
Listens
Finds!
The secret is
To merge spirit/gravity
In body
One chi
With the earth
And lineage (heaven)
Eventually universe
Tai Chi Chuan
A treasure
From China
To the world
The worthy
Slow Set
The source
Of all movement
Master caring
For me
As I am caring
For him
Is the sacrum
The dam
To the hidden reservoir
Must Kow Tow
To the Tao
Treasure
Is the connection!
Only
Those worthy
Will get it
Once connection
Becomes a conduit
The art is revealed
Give
The Masters
My time
By practicing
A good gesture
Will find
Its application
Slow Set
Is the Chinese treasure
The waist
Is the hidden gate
Let Tao
Take over
The source
Of solution
I am the Tao
Sense the Tao
In others
Who others
Really are
Takes a Master
The Tao
Is who
We really are
Before outside
Influences
My dog
Is the Tao
Be open to
Receive
Tao
Via
Masters instructions
Yu Pei Shih
Masters connect
To me
Thru Tai Chi Gestures
Focus
On support leg
Squatting
Sacrum
Relaxing/opening
Above is tapping
Into the conduit
To the earth/China
My blog
Will reach
Those who are
Worthy
My blog
An offering
Of Tao
To the Masters
My Blog
Will find me
New worthy
Students
The hidden reservoir
Have I touched
Upon it
During Slow Set
Practice
Jing/Chi
Is hidden
In the meridians
And is revealed
Via the
Bow to bOw
Think
The person
Going away
Body will follow
The mind
Healing starts
With a friend
Once the Master sees
That I am not abusing
The power
They will give
Me more
Slow set
Is the fulcrum
Of all effects
Tai Chi Chuan
Is the key
Good men understand
The Tao
Bad men don’t realize
But the Tao still
Provides for the unscrupulous
The other side
Of the Taoist coin
Master controls
All worthy students
Not just those
Who excel
Tai Chi Chuan
Is good
For everyone
It helps
Make them reclaim
Their youth
Good is good
Bad is also good
If corrected
In the mind
A fly land
On my shirt
Near my chest
I looked at it
Suddenly realize
That the fly
And I
Is part of the Tao
Caught it
With my left hand
Then let it go
Cannot build
A house
On a poor foundation
If I do
I must keep
Shoring it up
What’s the sense
Of Masters
Discarding a student
The unworthy student
Usually discard
The Master
The ultimate
Is to Kow Tow
To spirit/gravity
While watching
Master demonstrate
I saw the hidden treasure
In their performance
I must find it
Feel it
Eventually have it
All the time
Master
Looks at all of us
As doing good
Tai Chi Chuan
He corrects
The bad posture
In his mind
As we perform
Slow set
Is the source
Of the 10,000 things
Learn the slow set
Advancing
I will apprehend
Retreating
I shall escape
The reason
There are some
Poor students
They are only seeking
A refuge
Tao in mind
Seek
I will find
Slow set in mind
Seek
I will understand
Serious is one
Who uses
The slow set
To find the answers
Tai Chi Chuan
Is the pivot
The fulcrum
The hinge
The scale
The measure
Why did
The Masters
Seek Tai Chi Chuan
They are being directed
By their Masters
All have
A pivot point
In everything they do
To stay balanced
On the point
Is the difficult
But eventually
Can just think it
Masters
Are forgiving
Because they probably
Did error-ed themselves
In the past
Perhaps the act
That I feel
Guilty about
Was the way
It had to be done
Investing in loss
The formula is
“Ching” (idea)
“Chi” (act)
“Shen” (spirit)
Tai Chi Chuan
I can spurt
From my shortcomings
The way
Is the fulcrum
Must always be
Seeking balance
The fulcrum
Can be placed
Anywhere
In the body
Find the Tao
(Tai Chi Chuan)
In self-first
Then in others
Find the new feeling
In self-first
Then do it
Others will do it
If they are listening
Feel the Tao
Within first
Before giving it
To others
First self
Then others
Tao is a gift
From the Masters
Once I truly
Get the Tai Chi Chuan
How can anything
Offend me
Practicing
The Tao (way)
Tai Chi Chuan
Feel love
For sinners
Hear them
Their intent
If they have bad intent
It becomes like a wall
Cannot move it
Move
Around it
The Way
Is the pivot
Of all things
The waist/wrist
Are the pivots
Of the body
Listen with them
This is done
By listening
With a sensitive heart
Not fancy words
Or actions
Just the Tao expressed
Via slow set
Tai Chi Chuan is
The means
By which I can reach
The Tao
Merge with it
Hence offer it
Tai Chi Chuan
Is the combination
Of spirit/man/gravity
Are always here
Only our attention
Varies
The waist open
Is the hidden source
Of the Tao
The fulcrum
Between spirit /gravity
Use the fulcrum
When silently helping
Tao is hidden
Form the unworthy
Tai Chi Chuan
Is a Chinese treasure
Within
It is available
To the worthy
But some
Do not see it
Because they have
Private ends
To meet
Tao
Is the connection
Heaven/Masters/spirit
And
Earth/China/gravity
Tap into the Tao
Via Tai Chi Chuan
Blog will find
Worthy readers
Tai Chi Chuan
Is being
Grounded
One with the earth
Via KD#1
WU; It is better for you
To offer the Tao without
Moving your feet
That is just think it
If student is worthy
They will hear it
Tai Chi Chuan
Is hidden from
The unworthy
Masters guide
The earnest
Only the worthy
Know
If they are worthy
Tao = heart
Heartfelt gesture
That is
Masters’ class
Where there is
A hidden
Treasure
The heart
Give
The Masters
Energy
Not entertainment
Found the hidden
It is the connection
To Masters/China
Spirit/gravity
Tao = Chi
Worthy
Need not
Worry
Only the worthy
Can just think it
Finding
Infinity
Is immortality
Being worthy
Is the key
To Tai Chi Chuan
If a student strays
From class/practice
It is no reason
To neglect them
Perhaps it is a test
Of me and them
By the Masters
Tai Chi Chuan
Is hidden
In the hollow
Forgiveness
Is forgetness
Embody
The lineage
Worthy
Will heed
Tai Chi Chuan
Is not hidden
Seek it
It will find
The worthy
A good application
Has an aligned
With gravity
Spirited source
My depot/gallery/studio
Tao = heart
Even the worthy
Can worry/wander
Offer lessons
Of the lineage
To all
Wise will heed
Receive Jing/Chi
From lineage
Venture virtue
In return
Straying
Is a test
Of faith
Tao = center of gravity
Where spirit
And gravity
Combine
The paragon
Of Tai Chi Chuan
Sanctuary
In seeking
The secret
Atone all
Human
Shortcoming
Virtuous gesture
Will find its
Application
Yin/Yang
Gravity pulls
Spirit down
To root
Spirit pulls
Gravity up
For support
Tao
Is heartfelt
Is Tao
To the Masters
Upstarts are
Forgiven by
Being forgotten
Tai Chi Chuan
Is a hidden
Treasure
It is being revealed
Here at the depot
In New Hampshire
Lineage
Is hidden
From the unworthy
Masters
Guide
The worthy
Slow Set
Is concealment
Of all ideas
Practice
To procure
Tai Chi Chuan
Is having
Faith
In the heart’s
Fulcrum
Tai Chi heart
Fulcrum
Discriminates
During Slow Set
it balances
Good gestures
Over the bad
Tai Chi secrets
Are revealed
In solo
Practice
Oh soul
Precise
Hidden
In Slow Set
Calibration
Of heart’s
Fulcrum
Balancing
Good and bad
Tai Chi applications
Practice
Tai Chi gesture
To understand it
Then just
Think it
To do it
Sometimes
An erroneous
Gesture
Can be a
Pathway to
Epiphany
Lineage secret
Is Masters
To discover
The treasure
In Tai Chi Chuan
Plumb posture
Permits spirit
To seek
Gravity
Supporting
Spirit
There is no
Right or wrong
Tai Chi Fulcrum
Only the decision
To continue
Tai Chi Chuan
Master teaches
All equity
The same
Only the worthy
Succeed
Where others
Can continue
Without
Success or shame
Tai Chi Chuan
Venture into
All the forms
Always return
To Slow Set
The ultimate
Adventure
Tai Chi Chuan
Hidden
Treasure
Find it
In Slow Set
Slow Set
Seek secret
Spiritual sinew
Between
Yin/Yang
Realize it
Via Master’s
Guidance
Slow Set
Treasured source
Of all
Applications
Slow Set
Practice
Conduit to
Tai Chi lineage
Slow Set
Spirit
Conceals
Jing/Chi
Gravity
Reveals it
Tai Chi Chuan
Divine scale
Always seeking
Balance in
Spirit/gravity
Tai Chi gesture
Is a hidden
Vortex spring
Until it becomes
A Jing/Chi
Application
Slow Set
Gives birth
To all applications
Appreciatively
When applied
To good
Mysterious when
Applied to bad
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