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What? Speak up, this old man can't hear you!

Metaphors are hard for some people, I understand. The Dao does not need my protection, yet i protect it instinctively.

That person will know when and how to reveal themselves. One just did. Even in the Bamboo grove it gets lonely. It is our nature.

Yes, you did! Nice to meet you!

You are getting it!

The person I was looking for would have seen through it.

Thanks for explaining what come naturally to me! There is a misconception that Daoists only express themselves with, or appear as, Yin. Since our culture in the US is so yang it was my, and many other's first reaction, to go full yin and see forums like this where appearance can trump deeper meaning. I will admit, I was looking for a certain response to my first post, because I am looking for someone else who gets it. I did not see it, so I will not be long here.

Believing in dualism, not using it, makes you a dualist. If you think desire and wu wei have nothing in common you just need to do a brief internet search to understand. I found your weakness, it is that you have no weakness!

Giving advice does not mean that the advisor has desire. Wu Wei is invisible.

Who says acting defensively cannot be done with Wu Wei? Come on kid, this is basic stuff! All excess is bad? HA! You are not a laoist or a daoist. You are a dualist.

His white blood cells could have risen because of something he ate that day. You associating it to Tai Chi is magical thinking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_thinking Your last sentance, meditate on that!

My reactions are all automatic. Reflexive. My cantakerousness is not a facade, it is deep in my bones. I am a bear and the Dao is my bear cub, protecting it is now my instinct. How does a natural man act? Who knows. Maybe it would be easier to learn how to not do by not doing. Manifesting the void...ha!

Well I guess I will stick with the illegitimate schools. Where did you ge this non-sense that Daoism is a warrior tradition?

Then you are not a Daoist. From the Dao de Ching, remember that? Maybe time to get back to basics---- Colors blind the eye. Sounds deafen the ear. Flavors numb the taste. Thoughts weaken the mind. Desires wither the heart. - If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. - Therefore the Master takes action by letting things take their course. He remains as calm at the end as at the beginning. He has nothing, thus has nothing to lose. What he desires is non-desire; what he learns is to unlearn.

Your question was meaningless and revealed that you do not understand. I am not saying that being like an animal cures cancer. I am saying that they do not have cancer only because they do not know what it is. And what is so wrong with having cancer?

A out of control "master"! He called that Peng, I call it a strong young guy pushing an old guy when he is off balance. I am still having a had time knowing if he is deluded or a charlatan. What I do know is that he is a big strong guy using physics. So maybe Tai Chi is not fake, just not very special. while I was looking at this video, I could not help to see how the teacher is actually training them in their role. You punch me and I block it like this. Just like a Kung Fu movie. And it helps me realize why these Tai Chi "masters" always get beaten in a match with someone who is not their student.

Do they know they have cancer? Do they live their lives trying to avoid and figure out how to cure cancer? If you never knew what cancer was, and you died of it, what would you tell people you have died of? If you do not know what death is, or what birth is? I am afraid you are all missing the meanings of the teachings. Daoism does not cure cancer, it cures your idea of cancer. Empty your mind of all thoughts. <---of ALL thoughts, even Tai Chi, even death and cancer! Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each separate being in the universe returns to the common source. Returning to the source is serenity. If you don't realize the source, you stumble in confusion and sorrow. When you realize where you come from, you naturally become tolerant, disinterested, amused, kindhearted as a grandmother, dignified as a king. Immersed in the wonder of the Tao, you can deal with whatever life brings you, and when death comes, you are ready.

When has Lao Tzu said; "You need to learn to deal with your desires"? Never! Your's are the words of a person who does not want to give up their desires. I was content as a crane on a river bank till all you starting making all this racket!

Yes, you are right, here you go, Cheng Jin Cai cured his cancer, by dying! http://slantedflying.com/cheng-jin-cai-passes-away/ He was a true Daoist! I am leaving this topic now, for others not yet sucked into the delusion to read. But people defending Tai Chi by saying it does miraculous things is too much delusion to keep shadow boxing with. I began by saying that Tai Chi was a bastardization of the Dao. Why? My teachings are easy to understand and easy to put into practice. Yet your intellect will never grasp them, and if you try to practice them, you'll fail. My teachings are older than the world. How can you grasp their meaning? If you want to know me, look inside your heart.

Yes. I do not find it hard to believe, I find no reason to believe it. The Dao, and Tai Chi, are not magic or supernatural or special. You read and believe these stories because people want to take advantage of you and your fears, because you are not content in the lowly places and you want to be special. You know what cures cancer? Not having the knowledge of cancer. The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing left to hold on to: no illusions in his mind, no resistances in his body. He doesn't think about his actions; they flow from the core of his being. He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work. --- Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health. The Master is her own physician. She has healed herself of all knowing. Thus she is truly whole.

Yeah. like chemotherapy and changes in diet. But Taii Chi? You have no evidence. Not how they are allowed to, just pointing out their stupidity. I am just "teaching without teaching". When they lose their sense of awe, people turn to religion. When they no longer trust themselves, they begin to depend upon authority. Therefore the Master steps back so that people won't be confused. He teaches without a teaching, so that people will have nothing to learn.

OK. No, I have nothing against healing cancer. But Tai Chi does not heal cancer, or light fires, or move trains, or make people collapse from a distance. Chuang Tzu: Shun asked (his attendant) Khang, saying, 'Can I get the Tâo and hold it as mine?' The reply was, 'Your body is not your own to hold;-- how then can you get and hold the Tâo?' Shun resumed, 'If my body be not mine to possess and hold, who holds it?' Khang said, 'It is the bodily form entrusted to you by Heaven and Earth. Life is not yours to hold. It is the blended harmony (of the Yin and Yang), entrusted to you by Heaven and Earth. Your nature, constituted as it is, is not yours to hold. It is entrusted to you by Heaven and Earth to act in accordance with it.

Are you being metaphorical regarding cancer? It is hard to tell since there is a lot of talk of magik Tai chi.

You claim in the video it was the power of Tai Chi and "really reading the classics", you did not bring up Physics. So what was I at 14 when i was rocking trains? Was I a master at Physics or Tai Chi? Maybe I am the master after all! You can be my student and you will learn to be skeptical of yourself! I wish you well Eric.

Forest fires are a natural part of a healthy forest. Sometimes they are needed when the thicket of bullshit gets too thick. Taijiquan heals cancer now! Sheesh.