Clip: Opening Dao

Opening Dao

is a short documentary film on Taoism and martial arts filmed in China in 2009. Scholars, top martial artists and monks explain the principles of the way, a treasure of wisdom that survived thousands of years. The film highlights the interconnectedness between the philosophy and the natural world and how its principles manifest in certain martial arts and meditative arts.

See the film: here

A blind man's Taiji perspective

Quote: Thoreau

“Philosophy practiced is the goal of learning.” – Thoreau

News: Free Taijiquan Lilun Journal No. 2

The Taijiquan Lilun Journal No. 2 is now ready for a free download.

Content:

- A brief history of Chinese philosophy

- The classical texts of Taijiquan

- The Song of the 13 Basic Movements

- The Taijiquan Classic

- Yin and yang

- The Names of the Sabre Form

- The 13 Basic Movements of Taijiquan

- The eight trigrams

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News: Free Taijiquan Lilun Journal No. 1

The Taijiquan Lilun Journal No. 1 is now ready for a free download.

Content:

- Yema fen zong
- Naturalness ziran
- Zhou Dunyi
- Taiji
- Learning to write Taijiquan
- The names of the spear form
- The song of striking hands
- Skilfulness
- The heart xin
- The spirit shen
- qi

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Text: What’s wise about the wise man is his stance

From Bertold Brecht

A philosophy professor came to see Mr. K. and told him about his wisdom. After a while Mr. K. said to him: “You sit uncomfortably, you talk uncomfortably, you think uncomfortably.” The philosophy professor became angry and said: “I didn’t want to hear anything about myself but about the substance of what I was talking about.” “It has no substance,” said Mr. K. “I see you walking clumsily and, as far as I can see, you’re not getting anywhere. You talk obscurely, and you create no light with your talking. Seeing your stance, I’m not interested in what you’re getting at.”

Has this got something to do with the Philosophy of Tai Chi Chuan?

Blog: Moon in the Sea

Sources and resources for the practitioners of Chinese Internal Martial Arts.

Have a look: here