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Philosophical concepts of Tai Chi Chuan
Tai Chi Chuan has emerged and has been developed based on a few concepts of traditional Chinese philosophy, especially Taoism.
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Tai Chi Chuan is a Taoist art in the cultivation of body, mind and spirit created by the Chinese people for their development in daily life, prevent and cure diseases, protect and strengthen health.

Linking to this practice mind and body through slow, gentle movements, concentration, and a soft, deep breathing, you get to pacify the spirit, this being a fundamental pillar to improve and maintain health, helping to prolong life.

The benefits produced by this practice are achieved over time with a constant exercise.

Mental benefits:

reduces stress.
improves sleep quality.
decreases anxiety.
develops coordination.
promotes concentration.
improves memory.
Physical Benefits:

increased joint mobility.
improves blood circulation to relieve the heart's workload.
combat hypertension.
improves the functioning of organs and viscera.
benefits digestive processes and helps the intestinal normalization.
strengthens the legs and improves muscle tone.
improves balance, helping to prevent falls.
improves breathing capacity.
increases protection against disease.

PHILOSOPHY OF TAI CHI CHUAN

Tai Chi Chuan has emerged and has been developed based on a few concepts of traditional Chinese philosophy, especially Taoism.

NO-ZERO: TAO (the undefinable)

ONE: WU-JI (vacuum) - Hun Yuan (primal undifferentiated)

DOS: YIN-YANG (positive, negative)

THREE: generative force (interaction)

MULTIPLICITY: THE 'ten thousand things' (the concrete)

THE THREE TREASURES: ESSENCE, ENERGY AND SPIRIT (Jing Qi Shen)

Earlier Heaven, Later Heaven (Xian Tian, Hou Tian)

The five elements (Wu Xing)

The 8 trigrams (Ba Gua)

HEAVEN, EARTH AND MAN. (Tian dì rén, etc.).

SPONTANEOUS ACTION OR NATURAL (wu wei)

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It is that which existed before anything else. This 'nothing' of Tao comes around. Tao encompasses everything, everything is contained therein. It all arises. The Tao is eternal, timeless. It is intangible and yet can be material. It is, yet, No Es is Being and Non-Being, however, exists. It is indefinable. Is indistinguishable, inherent. The Tao reaches the largest and reaches the smallest. The Tao is like a Universal Primary Law, as a driving force as the paramount nature, as the Origin of Time-Space, Matter-Energy. (This is my personal view of Tao, a mere personal opinion, given the impossibility of any definition of it).

WU-JI
Wu: no; ji: poles, lines, ends. From the Tao is passed to the wu-ji, which is a state uniform, undifferentiated, empty. There is still no yin and yang, there is still no any representations therefore covers all possibilities. Since there has been taken, decided, defined, implemented any 'direction' are all possible.
Wu-chi is the 'xian tian yi qi', qi from heaven above.

YIN-YANG
Wu-ji there are two poles, yin and yang, or positive and negative. Fully in the field of existence, the realization, yin and yang manifest a way, a decision, one way. Thus, automatically forms the path, decision, quality, action, the opposite direction. That is, when there is 'left' is a counterpart to 'right', when there is 'up', is defined as 'down', when we specify what 'beautiful' implicitly we specify the 'ugly'.

Yin yang, within itself what is the tai chi chuan, are pairs of opposites such as: active-passive, solid-pointless, heavy-light, attack, retreat, advance, retreat, attack, defense, opening-closing movement -quiet, fast-slow, soft-hard, etc..

Yin yang is head and tail of a coin. One can not exist separately from the other. They are also related: when something is yin is in relation to something, when something is yang is because it is nothing compared to that, comparatively, is yin. Yin and Yang are not absolute, as expressed in the diagram of taiji (tai chi) Yin Yang are not static, and succeed each other, like 'after a big storm is always calm', and seem to be generated each other.

Generative force
It would be a combination of yin yang in the Tao, giving rise then to the '10 .000 beings. " As if yin, the feminine principle and yang, masculine principle, in combination with the Tao, as if it were a catalyst, affording them procreative force. It would also have mutual respect interacting with their qi.

LOS SERES '10 .000 '
Interacting with the yin yang of the Tao by arise tola the infinite range of possibilities that are manifested in the universe, known in China as the '10 .000 beings. " '10 .000 Beings' was an exorbitant amount enough to encompass all existing beings, "it was thought in antiquity.

THE THREE TREASURES (jing, qi, shen)
jing, qi, Shen: Essence, energy and spirit ... Taoist three keys are both three stages in the 'Xiu-lian' (or 'Xiu-dao' culture of Taoism, practices that enhance body, mind and spirit) which is part of the tai-chi chuan. In principle it would be 'refined' the essence to transmute it into qi and in turn to transmute refine this spirit. In Chinese, this process is known as' Liane qì Jing Hua, Lian qì huà Shën. "

ESSENCE - Jing-associated with the sperm or the female menstrual fluid. It also extends to what are body fluids such as bodily essences.

Energy - Qi: as an energy 'bioelectrical' that animates our body without which there can be.

SPIRIT - Shen, the spirit, the essence of our true self, beyond the personality or character. (Actually, the word shen, has several ways to use, and tai-chi is used sometimes when he is not referring to this aspect, and sometimes yes, depending on context. For example, sometimes corresponds more to 'jing Shën 'something like being strong, vigorous, full of strength and savvy.)

HEAVEN ABOVE HEAVEN AND BACK
The representative of the 2 nd generation Zhao Bao style of tai chi chuan, XING Huai Xi, defined precisely what is Heaven and Heaven Previous post:

Previous sky, (in Chinese 'Xian Tian') is a term that corresponds to pre-birth, genetic, innate, pre-cultural. We already determined in advance, a priori. Is therefore closer to the Tao, the origin, the same. For example, a baby, retains much its 'sky above', their reactions are immediate and spontaneous, have not yet been shaped by concepts and ideas. Another example, when someone does a project on paper, correspond to 'heaven above' or 'xian tian', and when they finally implemented this project and many times you have to change more or less things on the fly as there are many factors that change, and unexpected, that correspond to 'heaven' later 'or' hou tian '. Is somehow the 'Ideally', though not completely.

Later Heaven, in Chinese "Hou Tian." It symbolizes what has already been born after the birth, what is not innate. The germination of seeds, the implementation of pre-determined, what unfolds, develops, lives in the material world, the building designed. The tempered by aspects of culture and society. Is somehow the 'material plane', but not completely.

The five elements (Wu Xing)
The energy emanating from the constant interaction of Yin and Yang has five kinds of movement, the study of these movements is the basis of 'The 5 Elements Theory. "
Wood, whose quality is so expansive, so nascent.
Fire: whose quality is up, the mighty, the climax.
Earth whose quality is firm, the container, central.
Metal: whose quality is contractionary, as waning.
Water: whose quality is downward, and pereciente aquietante.
The five energies are transformed into each other in a process called creative cycle, so each of the five energy creates energy that follows. Fire produces earth which in turn produces the metal in its depths, the contractive power of the metal in the depths of the earth produces water which in turn produces Wood. On the other hand, these energies are controlled each other in the Control Cycle, Fire controls metal, metal controls wood, wood controls the land, soil water control and water control the fire.

The 8 trigrams (Ba Gua)
The process of transformation of energy through which from Wu Chi and Yin and Yang was born all beings wisely outlined by the Chinese for thousands of years in the I Ching or Book of Changes.
This representation is achieved through Eight Trigrams that can be seen as a family, the first configuration of life in all aspects.
The interaction of Yin (feminine) and yang (male) born two sons and two daughters, each of them gives birth to two sons and daughters, thus forming the 8 trigrams of Pakua.
Pakua literal meaning is "Eight Kuas'. These trigrams represent the ground states of the earth.
Each trigram has 3 lines or broken, the power line is Yang, the masculine, the broken line is the force of Yin, the feminine.

HEAVEN, EARTH AND MAN. (Tian dì rén, etc.).
In humans, the upper body, corresponds to 'heaven' and the lower the 'land'. The Tai Chi Chuan is to unify the 'qi' of heaven and earth, with the man.

SPONTANEOUS ACTION OR NATURAL (wu wei)
Also called 'no action', although this term can be confusing. It is not doing nothing, but learn to adapt to situations, let flow and trust the Tao or destination.


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[Myriel RAouine]

 

 

I love Tai Chi and Chi Gong to balance my energy :-)

Thank you for posting!

 

Sonja Myriel