CloudHands

Thanks for the answers : ) I guess you can have a taoist interpretation of many movies and some fit more of less. One day or another I'll watch it again and will enjoy to understand what you mean, but for now I just can't bear with the songs Anyway thank you very much for letting me enjoy this movie with my futur kids (the time will come) !

"You must relax. In Tai Chi Chuan, this does not mean to simply let go. In Chinese this means "Jou". It is a combination of being loose, relaxed and hard."

Thanks, I hope I'll feel this kind of sensation. On my way since 18 months : )

Hi practitioner ! I'm not a big fan too not because of insults but because of what I learned of humanity I can't trust words only and even less people's words . So my presence here is very limited when it comes to share of feelings, stories, etc. Nonetheless since few days I picked up a lot of interesting informations and... I would ask you what you mean by "a steady increase in qi, which is a wonderful feeling, as well as an adventure all its own." You could start a topic if you please : )

Hello, be welcome : )

Call it what you want to call it ! In my point of view violence is not a bad thing, it look bad because it's a primitive way of communication. Adapt : )

May you be wit the Tao friend.

Be welcome : ) I wish you good luck.

Probably : ) Some will say not, so how to be sure ? I met very different people, all are more or less similar on their needs (at heart?). To call different is matter of scales (time, quantity, quality), the discussion could never end. - if we're here to discuss - I can add, that psychology confirmed what taoist thinkers felt : the bigger you think you can get and the less you are more you create frustration and anger. In general case (I speak about people close to western values) the distance between these 2 points has (imo) never been that far. Society (as everything) is always changing, disharmony (or tension) just looks more obvious nowadays. Am I just reformulating my way what you expressed ?

Yes, possible. That changes a lot of things and I understand better this way : ) I did not want to make feel disharmony as something negative, only something difficult, because unstable. The state between 1 and 3. But... don't you have the impression that we (western people) keep changing in 2 at least since the fall of the kings ? Quote I relate : "“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” -Lao Tzu Someone quotes it in the quotes section, I did not remember of it. I thank you for your answer, you spoke the Tao.

Hello everyone, I think found this forum when I was looking for informations on my tai chi master's master's master's (Mr Gin Soon Chu) dynamic push hands. You guys wrotte some very interesting stuff there and I would like to thank some of you for it but when I tried to like it I could'nt that's what brought me here : ) More about me, I'm a french guy I pratice Tai Chi (beginner level), I travelled in India, studied psychology, listen a lot of music and I work (hard) as a carpenter and I'm with an amazingly sweet woman. Much love ! PS : thanks for making me discover Body mind and kick ass moves, very funny or interesting. thanks for saying that discovery channel show us nature as mainly brutal wilderness (I did not verify that but that something too much present in the air).

There is something I don't understand. What sounds odd to me is the reference to a golden age where people lived the natural way, then have been transformed by themselves. "Forgetting it" they have found instead morality, goodness (humanity, justice), and mind-sophistication leading to hypocrisy. Maybe I'm wrong but I relate this to language (developments) because I see in it the seeds of all intellectual manipulations, the base of concept creation which are done to be useful but imperfect and allows anyone to feel that, he, by himself is/can be the truth-speaker. Where that goes really confusing is that our brain seems to be managed firstly to act socially and (I believe) the language area takes a huge place in it that even is what looks typical of us. To conclude, does that reflection make sense ? and if so, our path as species is to go through disharmony, isn't it ?

"Everything that is not given is lost." Gybsy proverb : )

Thanks, all of you : )