Wise Words from Cheng Man-Ching lineage
28/12/2011 04:00We have 3 levels in our Tai Chi Chuan practice:
1) Health & Fitness -- Strengthening our shaking legs, lubricating rusty joints, softening tight muscles and relaxing the tense mind.
2) Application -- Increasing body sensitivity, enhancing awareness in balance, understanding various forces and learning the "right timing."
3) Cultivation -- Meditating internal energy, dissolving everyday challenges, neutralizing temptations and inspiring people with kindness.
We practice Tai Chi solo form to know ourselves;
We practice Tai Chi sensing-hands to know others;
and we practice Tao of Tai Chi to know the world.
Tai Chi Sensing-Hands
Sensing Hands -- known as "Pushing-hands", is a set of two-person drills for students to experience various touches. Through guided principles, students practice the application of relaxation on neutralizing, yielding, sensing, balancing, rooting, as well as Professor Cheng's philosophy of "Investing in Loss." Through these exercises, we examine and correct our physical and mental weakness under simulated force and conflicts.
The goal of learning Sensing-hands is to establish a neutral relaxation (Non-action) for everyday chaos (action). Without this mind/body sensitivity training, a student's Tai Chi is just a surface act, although the posture may "look" relaxed, the body is tense when touched. Through Sensing-hands training we often found the most difficult thing to overcome is our tough ego; thus we encourage no competition, no attitudes, and no criticisms among our students.
The Professor also said to us:
A relaxed body is a body that does not hold (onto things).
A relaxed mind is a mind that does not hold.
Our shoulders have carried a backpack while we sit, while we walk, and while in sleep; just put down the load, we are free."
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