The way towards health involves spirit, mind, qi and body

Yang Chengfu:

I hope that later students will not merely chase after the external, but will instead pursue the internal. The important fine details of boxing postures can not be obtained in the appearance of form, but must be sought in the idea that unites the whole.

Results will be achieved in three years for people that want to protect their bodies and cultivate their nature.

Sun Lutang

Martial arts were created to make use of methods that involved both stillness and motion simultaneously. They sought to recover the pre natal qi.

Taiji was invented … each movement and stillness merely follows that which is natural…the intent is focused on practicing until the qi transforms into spirit … towards six harmonies (3 internal, 3 external)

Wu:

Practice with

1.stillness : concentrate on the exercise, use of the mind, not force

2.Lightness: it is relaxed, but it is not, the strength is not exposed

3.slowness: never a pause (so no fajin)

The purpose of Yang, Wu and Sun style taiji quan is focused on health and self strengthening of the individual and the nation.

Health and self strengthening are expressed in terms of longevity in good conditions

The martial art application is secondary but it may contribute to your health and it enables the knowledge of the other.

Health is the final purpose of Yang, Wu, Sun taiji quan

Sun Jian Jun, said about her father: The reason to practice martial arts was not to fight, but to improve the health of the body. The goal is to be healthy while you live and then die quickly.

Yang Chengfu: I wish that worthy individuals with the highest aspiration will use the book for the purpose of self-strengthening.

The Wu style final purpose is described as: longevity and eternal spring.

Yang, Wu and Sun style taiji quan were immediately transmitted publicly as opposed to the older family secret transmission as used in Chen family.

Therefore, the “originals” of these styles are well documented by the originator or first or second generation representatives sometimes with the help of “ghost writers”

The change towards public martial arts may be related to the originators aim to strengthen China against foreign countries, which was relevant in the 1850 - 1950 period.

Based on books from “originators” of the Yang, Wu and Sun style

The essence and application of Taiji quan, Yang Chengfu

Wu style Taiji quan – forms, concepts and application of the Original style, Wu Ying-hua  and Ma Yueh-liang

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je suis là, même au dela

c'est vrai, mais pas la

c'est si opaque que clair comme l'eau de la...

I'm there, but where?

it is true, but not just there

it is hard as dust and yet soft and fair

Taijiquan is based on the taiji, bagua and the book of changes. As the changes modeled on the transformation of heaven and earth, it never goes beyond them.

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The important fine details of boxing postures can not be obtained in the appearance of form, but must be sought in the idea that unites the whole.

13 points to be attentive  and test and verify these in practice

1.      sink the shoulders and drop the elbows

2.      contain the chest and pull up the back

3.      the qi sinks to the dantian

4.      an intangible energy lifts the crown of the head

5.      loosen the waist and the kua (rem author: everything hips, middle, taille …)

6.      distinguish empty and full

7.      upper and lower follow one another

8.      use mind intent not strength

9.      inner and outer are united

10.  intention and qi interact

11.  seek stillness in movement

12.  movement and stillness are united

13.  proceed evenly from posture to posture

The most important principle in taijiquan is the value of the regularity of movements and stillness….

Only when the height of the stance and the velocity of the hands can obtain this consistent measure  can one shed the constraints of fixed rules.

Li (principle) orders what is changeless in change (note author: the inherent principel of things, on their structural patterns … one investigates li in order to uncover patterns which relate to things and to discover resonance between things that make correlation and catagorization possible.

Qi (energy) does not depart from yin and yang (note author at once matter and energy.

Xiang (image) takes its model in from the taiji and the bagua (note author: a sensory presentation of a perceptual, imaginative or recollected experience. It is what the sages can perceive from the mysteries of the world).

When one is able to realize  all three, then the form and function are integrated, then the form and function are integrated.

Students should seek the xiang to nurture the qi. Given time they will come to understand the li spontaneously.