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The Essence of T’ai Chi

The Essence of T’ai Chi. What is T’ai Chi. T’ai Chi is a way of life that has been practiced by the Chinese for thousands of years. Its philosophy: its invisible, immense, and most powerful thought threads its way through the entirety of oriental history. The Mystery of Life.

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The Essence of T’ai Chi

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  1. The Essence of T’ai Chi

  2. What is T’ai Chi • T’ai Chi is a way of life that has been practiced by the Chinese for thousands of years. • Its philosophy: its invisible, immense, and most powerful thought threads its way through the entirety of oriental history.

  3. The Mystery of Life • Throughout history the motivation of human life has remained a mystery. • Still we look up at the immense sky and wonder how it all happened.

  4. The Idealized Human • History reveals cycles in which the total person was either emphasized or ignored. • When idealized human nature was emphasized, strong, creative civilizations in which society progressed and people became spiritualized are recorded.

  5. The Birth of T’ai Chi • Several thousands of years ago, the Chinese, searching for the highest form of human mind and body, conceived the human mind to be an unlimited dimension and human activity to be limited.

  6. An Invisible Power • T’ai Chi became the invisible power that influenced all areas of life. • Medicine to diet • Art to economics • The order of human relations was designed according to T’ai Chi ideals.

  7. Meaning • T’ai Chi means the “ultimate”. • Improving, and progressing toward the unlimited. • Immense existence • The great eternal

  8. The Original Principle • T’ai Chi is guided by the theory of opposites • Yin: negative power • Yang: positive power • The interaction of these constructive and destructive forces causes the essence of life to materialize and the material world to manifest.

  9. Balanced Forces • One reaches the ultimate level, or develops in that direction, by means of the ladder of balanced powers and their natural motions. • These two equal powers oppose and complement. • They are both essential components that bring unlimited spiritual development when in harmony.

  10. The Systematization of T’ai Chi • Taoists or “mountain men” • Ch’ing Dynasty • Fighting art called the Five Animal Games • Chang Sanfend • Internal vs. External martial arts

  11. Ch’I the internal energy • The ultimate power • Existence is derived from Ch’i • Yin and Yang are unrestricted • Change is constant • Ch’i in the human body

  12. Practice of T’ai Chi • “air”, “power”, “motion”, “energy” or “life” • Everyone has it. • There are two main steps involved in cultivating Ch’i within your body: meditation and movement.

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