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"When you are fatigued, do t'ai chi."

By Marks & Katz, LLC

  My t'ai chi teacher Len Kennedy once said: "When you are fatigued, do t'ai chi." On another occasion, I learned the following from Len: Internally, during one of "those meetings," the t'ai chi practitioner does t'ai chi, through relaxing and sinking into one's chair or into the ground if standing; by relaxing actively through being fully aware of what is happening around the t'ai chi practitioner without getting sucked into nonsense; and by emptying the mind and body of stress and wasted energy in order to deal with the matter at hand. Len Kennedy learned t'ai chi from Robert W. Smith, who was t'ai chi megamaster Cheng Man Ch'ing's first Western student. Recently, I found this response to nihilism from Professor Cheng, as recounted by Fred Lehrman:  "I remember sitting one morning several years ago with Professor Cheng and several students in the Asian Library at Columbia University...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on November 12, 2008 (boomark / email).