Since tomorrow is the new Buddhist Meditation Center opening in Little Village in Chicago it feels like a good time to bring this post back.
Why?
Because as the potential for new teaching, new students arises it’s a time to reassess how the teaching occurs. To ask, what is most important to say, to share.

If a new person asks, so what’s tai chi and why should I do it? What does a good teacher say?

I feel like Popeye. I want to say, “Eat your spinach! It’s good for you.”

So, with tai chi, we can say, tai chi has this and that benefit to you but in the end, in order to really understand, a person has to do it themselves.

Tai chi can help you reduce stress and be healthier in the body and the mind. How do these things happen? You have to do it and see for yourself.

Tai chi (or taiji) is not something you can learn by thinking about it or by doing some complex analysis. Beginners and more experienced practitioners learn the same way … through direct experience. It’s through this direct experience, this intense, sharp focus, maintained throughout the form, with the total object of the mind, the body/breath/mind, brought totally together as one that does the teaching. A teacher can guide you but even that on … Read More

via Calm Chicago’s Blog