About learning
That's what's called learning the game.
The best time to learn was years ago.
Learning the game.
Hearts that are broken and love that's untrue.
These go with learning the game.
When you love her and she doesn't love you.
When you love him and he doesn't love you.
You're only learning the game.
Lao Tse teaches that learning is a part of life,
but what you learn doesn’t belong to you.
To attach to your learning is to misunderstand knowledge.
Make Tai Chi Chuan as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The basic idea behind learning Tai Chi Chuan
is to learn what you need to learn.
"Martial arts are easy to learn but difficult to correct"
The origin of this saying lies in the desire for immediate results.
Nowadays errors are passed on as teachings and this must inevitably lead to self-delusion and deluding others.
Douglas While - Yang Family Secret Transmissions
Some Tai Chi instructors/students are blind and deaf.
That’s wrong.
If you are a Tai Chi instructor be sometimes blind,
if you are a Tai Chi student be sometimes deaf.
The important thing is not what happens when we are there,
but what happens when we are not there.
A student needs to understand the philosophy of the art of Tai Chi Chuan.
Learning to ignore things
is one of the great paths to real Tai Chi Chuan.
In Taoism the first problem is not to learn, but to unlearn.
In Tai Chi Chuan the first thing is not to learn, but to unlearn.
The best time to unlearn was years ago;
the second best time is today.
To teach is to learn.
In our school there are no teachers.
If you are looking for a teacher, go to another school.
It is important to remember that we all have something to teach,
and we have something to learn as well.
Don't think, just do it.
Learn by doing.
Everything you do repeatedly becomes your practice.
Whether good or bad.
Why should you learn Tai Chi Chuan.
For its aesthetic appeal, for physical and mental health,
for self defence, for its philosophical approach?
Why ever, whatever, whenever, wherever, however whether,
the intention is to practice the art of Tai Chi Chuan.
How to practice Tai Chi Chuan?
All over the world
there are lots of good Tai Chi schools.
A good Tai Chi school is an Unthink Academy.
Most people has been acculturated with 'Think Academy'
and therefore they cannot see there may be a valid alternative.
The learning process most characteristic of humans
is imitation by observation.
Humans can copy many types of information simultaneously by observation.
You can only learn by observation.
Your learning will never end.
By practicing Tai Chi Chuan we will feel more connected to nature.
Each Tai Chi posture has a beginning and an end.
Each part of the form has a beginning and an end.
Your Tai Chi form has a beginning and an end.
Competence is competence. Arguments are arguments.
Science is science.
Philosophy is philosophy.
Tao Tai Chi Chuan has nothing to do with science or postmodern pseudoscience.
Spring, summer, autumn and winter each have a special beauty.
But in autumn life can show its most beautiful colours.
Then only the fruits of your own life become visible.
That's how life is.
Be like the lotus growing from the deepest mud:
Learn about silence from the talkative
Learn tolerance from the intolerant
Learn kindness from the unkind.
Tashimoto
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Don't be 'creative', your famous 'creativity' doesn’t exist.
You can only learn by observation.
There are many levels of observation.
Your learning will never end.
There are two kinds of observation.
First the observation of energy. Second the observation of the spirit.
Energy and spirit refer to the inner constituents of body and mind.
The art of observation is a very difficult art.
Rightly to perceive one single Tai Chi movement
in all the fullness of its qualities is really to create it.
The time of life is short: to spend that shortness basely were too long.
W. Shakespeare.
The Tai Chi sword represents the yang principle.
Learn about the yin principle from the yang principle.
The Tai Chi fan represents the yin principle.
Learn about the yang principle from the yin principle.
Taoistic Classics: about learning
The finger that points to the moon is not the moon.
Tswang Tse
At the age of seven I was Napoleon. Not bad.
Now I think I am myself, that's better.
S. Dali
Each of us is in fact what he is
almost exclusively by virtue of his imitativeness.
Now I think I am myself, that's better.
S. Dali
Each of us is in fact what he is
almost exclusively by virtue of his imitativeness.