Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Fumin, Here here! Well put. Neutralize and fa jin are one. Learn how to neutralize Taichikid. Fa jin will naturally come out later. Don't forget that "relax" is the key ingredient to Taiji progress so lay off the bricks for a while and practice with people. Best to all [This message has be...

Hi TK, FaJing is not important! The best thing is to trust your teacher and follow his words. If you decide to follow a master then do it with 100% conviction without any room for doubt - as this will definately impede your progress. Your teacher has given you one method of neutralizing but there ar...

Hi Guys, While we're on the subject of the classics, Louis I'd like to say that your translations are among the very best! There are few translations that I trust, even some of the contemporary masters, but your work is excellent. It seems you can offer a scientific approach to translations, renderi...

Hi YP, I totally agree with you on the importance of the classics! There are some problems, however. You need the guidance of a good teacher. If a beginner reads the classics they will misunderstand alot of the content. Even many masters write full books with commentaries on the classics and many ha...

Hi TCK, Here is a link to a really good article my great grand teacher (3 generations ago), Li Ya Xuan. Reading this will give you alot of information and alot to think about. http://qi-journal.com/Taiji.asp?-token.SearchID=Li%20Ya%20Xuan I would really like to see a video of your progress now if th...

Hi TCK, It looks like you're dying for a reply since you double posted. You look like you're having good progress in your training and are likely very smart. How long have you trained in TaiChi and what other styles did you train? I see in your tuishou that you have some good feeling for taiji. I th...

Hi Fumin, It is nice to see people practice fine points of tuishou with light energy. In the second video I like the point of following even if moved. Some times this is safer - to fly away like a bird and use the partner's energy to put yourself in a safe position. Sometimes you can catch to partne...

Hi Bill, You seem to be going off the fact that yin and yang usually travel diagonally in the upper and lower body. In White Crane Spreads its Wings the body's yin and yang is divided into left and right sides. The low hand and empty leg are yin while the loaded leg and raised arm are yang. This is ...

Hi Audi, This is very interesting. It says alot for the benefits of Taiji to everyday life. From my experience I found a turning point in my development/training where I suddenly had more spirit, or learned to engage and focus it. Or maybe I just developed enough Qi to generate spirit. At that time ...

Hi Audi, That's some super interesting post! I follow that when qi is combined with spirit it produces Hun, when combined with jing4 it produces Po. That together they are the spirit of yin and yang is a real eye opener for me. I look forward to thinking about this for some time to come. Thanks for ...

Hi Folks, I really like Barbara's question in that in opens doors to many positive considerations of the effects and uses of Taiji and Thinking. My direction of interpretation was the meditative energy and intense concentration springing from the balanced mind. As Louis implies - the use of this min...

Hi, In Taiji I think consciously and unconsciously. As in meditation I am both an active participant and observer. different parts of my awareness are placed in various areas seemingly at once during practice. Sometimes taiji is like chess or like internal research and other times it is practiced by...

Hi Yslim, Your post is very interesting and informative for me. I didn't know that Jing exists independently, or I believed that it was produced within Man. Other than that I followed you up until the more specific sexual application of jing. I guess I tend to think about Taiji more than the Big Pic...

Ha! Ha! Right on.

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Hi Friends, Shugdenla writes: Form is function, function is form! To my mind even basic tuishou/roushou is form and function at once I really like this sentence. This is what I was trying to get at as well! Form should be practiced as if pushing and pushing should be practiced as if doing Form. If s...