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My friend you are welcome for tea anytime. Let me know how you take it so I can be prepared.

I truly appreciate your 'contrmplative analysis' frame of reference. However I really must emphasize that the only way to know Taijiquan is to 'be' Taijiquan. It is purely an experiential process. And the only way to allow that to happen is to drop your preconcieved ideas of what Taijquan is and is not, engage in the training of this beautiful artform over the long term and experience the process of Taiji unfolding within you.

Good for you my friend ... it is great to hear about people sharing the way with others.

So true

If someone approached you with this sincere question how would you answer?

Yes it is possible, which ones interest you the most?

Because it is the most natural thing in the world to do I truly LOVE it! To share with someone else that which has inspired me and has taken me to amazing depths of myself is an incredible joy. And then I have those treasured moments where a student, after months of struggling with a move, suddenly 'gets it' and their face lights up with the same inspiration that captivates me ... WOW! But also I teach so that I can learn ... my students, through the mere inquiry of their presence, draws out of me the wisdom of my soul. By reaching further into myself so that I can be of true service to them I learn more than I have ever done from books. They help me bring all my scholarly understanding into the practical realms of experience. For that I can never thank them enough and I am deeply honoured and humbled by their service to me.

There you are I can see you are making yourself well at home ... good for you ... you have a nice vibe I hope you stick around And I am doing quite fine thank you ... any better and I would be twins

A pleasure my friend Just wait and see what I have planned next

its where we end up and its where we first began this is so much FUN!

a spiritual dance spiralling up forms dissolve the cosmos joins in

Indeed I think it was something Don Juan said ... "Without personal power even the most profoundly written truth will not lead the Warrior to freedom." Conversely, as you say Mal, with personal power even a Spy vs Spy comic strip could be the key that unlocks the mysteries of the universe.