Tai Chi seemingly teaches one to become tranquil and peaceful. I say seemingly because it is relatively easy to be peaceful if you are practicing tai chi on a secluded beach or on a lonely forest path. Keeping your peaceful perspective becomes a little harder when participating within the world of the ten thousand things which includes your irate boss or your demanding child. So to maintain your peacefulness requires skill. To acquire skill one must train. To train one must seek knowledge on what and how to train. To seek requires patience and perseverance. 

 

So the Tai Chi player walking the spiritual path must become a warrior. 

 

Warrior:

1. One who is engaged in or experienced in battle.

2. One who is engaged aggressively or energetically in an activity, cause, or conflict

 

What is the conflict?

The conflict is everyday life. 

 

It is the daily battle we must fight to first find and learn the truth and then there’s the seemingly endless battle to live from the vantage point of the truth. 

 

What the hell am I talking about? You might never know but…….. 

 

Below are some of my old study materials that I happened upon today

 

 

To Become a Warrior

 

Stop the World

Stopping the world is indeed an appropriate rendition of certain states of awareness in which the reality of everyday life is altered because the flow of interpretation, which ordinarily runs uninterruptedly, has been stopped by a set of circumstances alien to that flow. Time is but a single dimension in a multidimensional construct.

 

Seeing - 

One can only “see” by looking for and perceiving what is not

 

Awareness – 

awareness of Self vs self

 

Detachment – beyond the perception of reality lies the truth 

 

Death – 

The energy of Death infuses power into the warrior. It is the knowledge that death is your constant companion that can take you at any moment which instils a sense of urgency into the warrior to complete his journey.

 

Will – 

The Will is not thought

The will is a power that comes from Source

The warrior waits for the will and his actions manifest it

 

 

Patience – 

Waiting is what a warrior does, he neither instigates nor plans. He awaits the Will.

 

 

For a warrior there is nothing out of control. Life for a warrior is an exercise in strategy.

 

A warrior is never idle and never in a hurry.

 

Only a warrior can “see” and still engage in the battle. This is due to the warrior’s spirit.

If an ordinary man were to “see”, he would crumble and the journey would be over.

 

A Warrior selects his shields to enhance his lifetime and further his journey as opposed to an ordinary man who uses the shield of reality to engage the mind and close his gap.

 

 

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.