CloudHands

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  1. Everyone post some favorite quotes!

    My teacher once told me (even if I did not!) "Don't call me "Master", even for laughin 'cause I'm not this one" yet I have so many things to learn from him. I'm so glad I met Tai Chi.
  2. Bums Average Age

    Yep very strange. Your guess ?
  3. Bums Average Age

    I spent some time with some mid eighties UK youths whom used to say "MAAAASSIVE" pretty often, maybe it's already hasbeen.
  4. Bums Average Age

    As ou please mYTH If you were born between 1971 and 1982, sure you have to. Otherwise no, strictly forbidden !
  5. Bums Average Age

    It seems that daoism keeps sense of humor alive
  6. Bums Average Age

    You can vote too
  7. Bums Average Age

    "Nice to be old."
  8. The Cool Picture Thread

  9. FIFA World Cup 2014

    http://dictionary.reverso.net/german-english/Angstgegner
  10. What is the longest you've ever meditated?

    We need a brand new interview here
  11. What are your goals?

    That's a very nice reflexion. I think people get confused by the ideas Don't rocks move (or evolve) ? It's another matter of time than ours or a different kind of vibration but I think it does. Your next sentence goes to the point. IMO perfection (if any...) is death, absence of move, absence of life, absence. You can approach the balance, maybe even stay in touch with it but I don't believe in the "nothing to add or remove" idea. That's not something that happens in nature for what I know. What I say is that any person/element has to feel what he needs, that's IMO how someone get the closest to its balance. "How can one part of our whole selves know the destiny of the whole?" Wut ? Too complicated for me... Sometimes I wish I could speak English better.
  12. How and why do babies lose belly breath ?

    Did your children kept it until school or nursery ?
  13. How and why do babies lose belly breath ?

    because you don't have children ;p
  14. What are your goals?

    I know, I don't believe in things that don't move.
  15. How and why do babies lose belly breath ?

    Someone that would grew up in a peaceful manner would keep it ?
  16. What are your goals?

    Hi I don't practice for the sake of it... nor to gain power or "immortality" and I don't care about fighting. I have few interest in Buddhism enlightenment (maybe because I don't fear suffering that much). I think I'm a very sensitive person and I could have had a more peaceful life, I took the lesson and adapted my strategy. Tai Chi fuels my life, it makes me play the game more than ruled by it. Every year since I started I'm more in control of myself so more in charge. Overall I feel better and the peaks are smoother. I think that's the best way I found to be who I am. Taoism is the only system I couldn't destroy, it's almost tautological yet it's very powerful.
  17. The Tale of Princess Kaguya (かぐや姫の物語 Kaguya-hime no Monogatari?) is a 2013 Japanese animated film produced by Studio Ghibli, and directed and co-written by Isao Takahata, based on the folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter.[2][3] This is Takahata's fifth film for Studio Ghibli, and his first in 14 years since his 1999 feature, My Neighbors the Yamadas. The trailer is no spoiler. Masterpiece ?
  18. Tai Chi 4 Martial Art

    You are the perfect person to answer the topic : do you have supreme fighting skills ?
  19. Tai Chi 4 Martial Art

    There is some details I didn't know, thank you for that. So through the Zhen Dao Pai website you claim to be an inner circle disciple. So what do you practice ? Hebrew or Latin ?
  20. Tai Chi 4 Martial Art

    I think the debate is not about what the original purpose but on how it's utilized nowadays. Even people claiming tai chi as a martial art don't fight. Let's try not to be that manichean ... if nobody here said that Tai Chi is not a martial art, there is obviously not only martial applications. When we talk about design, I suppose you know who Yang Chengfu is and that Yang style is today the most popular style by far. If this man adapted tai chi to "general practitioners" including old people, it is not to make warriors of them. I remember learning an accomplished Chinese master known for his skills and power saying he started Tai Chi because he had very poor health condition so it's not brand new. Yang Chengfu removed the vigorous fā jìn (發勁 release of power) from the Hand (solo) Form, as well as the energetic jumping, stamping, and other abrupt movements in order to emphasise the Da jia (大架 large frame style), but retained them in the Weapons (sword, saber, staff and spear) forms.[3] The Hand Form has slow, steady, expansive and soft movements suitable for general practitioners. Thus, Yang Chengfu is largely responsible for standardizing and popularizing the Yang-style t'ai chi ch'uan widely practised today.[Note 1]
  21. standing slower is something you'd agree with ? Like 90° legs ?