Sir, thank you for opening my eye to the fact that tai chi is a sphere. Your PDF instruction that the surface of the any point of contact must be perpendicular to the line from my centre has made me a hero in my vicinity. Much thanks.
Your videos are far and above so much I find on You Tube. I trained in aikido for 14 or 15 years ago and now at 81 I am deeply interested in learning tai chi. Not just the forms but the inner practice
Thank you for the compliment. The inner practice of Taiji is based on thousands of years of knowledge, so there’s always more to learn and benefit from it.
Great video. I found Wuji standing meditation really helped me with this concept. Taking the state of Wuji throughout all my practice and life helped me reside in an empty state of absolute potential. No goal or intent. Just engaging fully in the process from this state of being. Thankyou 🙏
These videos are very much appreciated, sir. Your demonstration of "not this, but this" is excellent. My teacher, also from the Cheng Man-Ch'ing lineage, via Yap Siu Ting and Tok Seng Gim, always says to me that the hands must be relaxed and soft so they can "listen" and be able to change in a moment. In the form, we can become accustomed to set hand positions and shapes at first, but as we progress the hands become softer and then they start to fill with energy so they can transform at anytime. The whole body as a hand is the same thing, it must learn to be agile and transform itself and not be rigid and locked into a specific way of doing things, at least that's how far I've got with this mysterious art.
Thank you for expressing your appreciation and, especially, for your clear additions, including the part about the whole body is a hand, which I had failed to mention.
@@dsfgnk4Your insights are very helpful. I seem to remember a story about one of ZMQ's insights that came from a dream he had about having no arms. William C.C. Chen also talks about the hands being formless, and his arms being completely loose. Yet, when it's time to move, everything connects as one. I'm a long way from any of that. My teacher keeps telling me over and over again: let go, don't worry, sink, turn the waist, stay soft, keep practising
I read about it but watching is much more helpful - it can almost be felt/experienced by mere watching. Also the difference between "standard" and your movement is huge - yours feels much more natural - a kind of alertness. Actually, I come from a post-communist country and remember when I was a child, a cartoon usually appeared on TV three evenings a week. And now, when adult, I enjoy your videos with similar frequency :)
I think I've seen many examples of this "hand concept" in kung fu, particularly used by monks. They balance with them, so a hand is not only somethings that makes contact, from what I understand. I think balance is really very much important, and energy is all ever present, not only on the body, like moves are not the same when one is on the ground and on the air, so energy interacts in a different way according.
Sir, thank you for opening my eye to the fact that tai chi is a sphere.
Your PDF instruction that the surface of the any point of contact must be perpendicular to the line from my centre has made me a hero in my vicinity. Much thanks.
Thank you for saying that my video was helpful.
Your videos are far and above so much I find on You Tube. I trained in aikido for 14 or 15 years ago and now at 81 I am deeply interested in learning tai chi. Not just the forms but the inner practice
Go for it. I know a very good Tai Chi teacher in Wales, he also spent many years in Aikido and his Tai Chi is very deep.
Thank you for the compliment. The inner practice of Taiji is based on thousands of years of knowledge, so there’s always more to learn and benefit from it.
Great video. I found Wuji standing meditation really helped me with this concept. Taking the state of Wuji throughout all my practice and life helped me reside in an empty state of absolute potential. No goal or intent. Just engaging fully in the process from this state of being. Thankyou 🙏
Thanks for sharing!
These videos are very much appreciated, sir. Your demonstration of "not this, but this" is excellent.
My teacher, also from the Cheng Man-Ch'ing lineage, via Yap Siu Ting and Tok Seng Gim, always says to me that the hands must be relaxed and soft so they can "listen" and be able to change in a moment. In the form, we can become accustomed to set hand positions and shapes at first, but as we progress the hands become softer and then they start to fill with energy so they can transform at anytime. The whole body as a hand is the same thing, it must learn to be agile and transform itself and not be rigid and locked into a specific way of doing things, at least that's how far I've got with this mysterious art.
Thank you for expressing your appreciation and, especially, for your clear additions, including the part about the whole body is a hand, which I had failed to mention.
@@dsfgnk4Your insights are very helpful. I seem to remember a story about one of ZMQ's insights that came from a dream he had about having no arms. William C.C. Chen also talks about the hands being formless, and his arms being completely loose. Yet, when it's time to move, everything connects as one.
I'm a long way from any of that. My teacher keeps telling me over and over again: let go, don't worry, sink, turn the waist, stay soft, keep practising
I read about it but watching is much more helpful - it can almost be felt/experienced by mere watching. Also the difference between "standard" and your movement is huge - yours feels much more natural - a kind of alertness.
Actually, I come from a post-communist country and remember when I was a child, a cartoon usually appeared on TV three evenings a week. And now, when adult, I enjoy your videos with similar frequency :)
Thank you 🙏🏽
You are welcome.
Thank you!!
You're welcome!
I think I've seen many examples of this "hand concept" in kung fu, particularly used by monks. They balance with them, so a hand is not only somethings that makes contact, from what I understand. I think balance is really very much important, and energy is all ever present, not only on the body, like moves are not the same when one is on the ground and on the air, so energy interacts in a different way according.