Newsletter 997
What Tai Chi Really is and Means!
Before I get started,
remember that I have a couple of specials
available on my site.
Matrix Karate is discounted,
There is a two for one offer on that page
Read this blog for details.
I do this because lots of people
can’t go to the dojo,
and you need to keep practicing.
A hardy body/immune system
is crucial to beating the Kung Flu.
Okay, let’s talk about Tai Chi Chuan.
Tai Chi Chuan means
‘the grand ultimate fist.’
Some bozos think it is proud brag,
that it refers to Tai Chi being better
than all the other arts.
Nope.
Not the meaning at all.
It’s much more than that.
First,
I have over 50 years in the martial arts.
Probably 45 of them studying Tai Chi.
Lots of Tai Chi.
All the styles.
Read all the books,
and so on.
When I first began Tai Chi,
back about ’74,
I came across a wood carving.
It was old,
a couple of hundred years,
and on it was a bird’s eye view
of the top of a mountain range,
and it looked like a yin yang symbol.
I was like,
what the heck?
How did this carver know what a bird sees?
Well, he was supposed to have studied Tai Chi.
That one concept,
that a person could get so out of his body
that he could look down on the highest mountains,
guided my Tai Chi.
I always had that in mind.
For many years it was just an idea.
Cool, but no progress.
But I persisted.
But changes occurred,
and eventually I began experiencing
what that wood carver must have experienced.
I was doing Tai Chi the other day,
standing in the middle of a road
doing my versions of Tai Chi.
I was higher than the road,
looking down on it
as if from a rooftop.
I mean it was like I was standing
on top of a bowl
that was upside down.
The world just curved away and down from me.
I was up,
the world was beneath me.
So let’s talk about this phenomena.
There is no proof that the world exists.
It’s all just sort of…assumed.
Or,
as I prefer,
imagined.
I mean…you are,
and that’s about all you can say.
But you can’t prove that you are to anybody else.
And,
to be honest,
everything in the whole universe
might be a figment of your imagination.
You know?
BUT…
When you do the Tai Chi form
you push awareness through your body,
which validates your body,
and,
more important,
validates you.
You are the center of the universe,
and by doing the Tai Chi form over and over
(I’ve probably done it 20 or 30 thousand times in 45 years.)
you become aware of this.
Awareness is the crux of reality.
Reality doesn’t exist except as you are aware of it.
Do you understand?
And,
over the years,
Tai Chi makes you more and more real
as the center of the universe.
After all,
it is your awareness that is making your life happen.
This is how a wood carver
hundreds of years ago
can be higher than the mountain tops.
But,
I tell you from personal experience,
it takes time and effort and hard work over time.
And I mean to be redundant.
So,
get started now.
Tai Chi takes less effort than say Karate,
or harder forms of martial arts,
so you can do it longer.
It has direct effect on your body systems.
You will have less colds,
more immunity,
and the hell with this Corona crap.
And,
to help you out,
let me make a special Corona offer.
Order Five Army Tai Chi Chuan
on this page
then send me an email
aganzul@gmail.com
and tell me you want the Matrix Tai Chi course, too.
I will do it.
Download or disk,
you get both courses for the price of
the Five Army Tai Chi course.
Okay guys,
hope to see you over the mountain tops,
and…
Have a great work out!
Al
