In a Dark Time … The Eye Begins to See

Although I’ve been taking Tai Chi classes for nearly four years now, I’ve never been particularly interested in actually reading anything about Tai Chi. All I know about Tai Chi has come from listening to comments by different teachers. More than once, I’ve remarked to instructors that the principles of T’ai Chi seem remarkably similar [...]

When I look back I’m a little amazed at how my taste in sports has changed over my lifetime. Until the age of 25, football was the great love of my life. Though my lack of speed and superior arm strength probably made me a natural quarterback, I wanted to be a lineman [...]

It seems a little strange to me that a book called T’ai Chi Classics should devote only 36 pages to three classics and most of those 36 pages are devoted to commentary on the classics rather than to the classics themselves. The first classic is a treatise by Master Chang San-Feng and consists of [...]

Thought I’d end my discussion of Liao’s T’ai Chi classics with a quote and interpretation from the final two classics. This quotation from The Treatise by Master Wong Chung-yua reminds me of one of my favorite aspects of Buddhism: After coming to an understanding of the internal power of movement, you can approach the theory [...]