JANAKI JOSHI
Sent:
Friday, April 13, 2007 12:26 AM
Subject: Surrender
The act of trying to let go has struggle
inbuilt because a part of you wants to hang
on to it! It is like trying to test the
waters with your toes while hanging on to
the land. Whereas with surrender there is no
struggle as you are jumping in with both
feet.
As a student if you judge the teacher then
there is struggle as it comes in the way of
the training. Whereas if you surrender to
the teaching then it will accelerate.
The limitation of learning is always that of
a student if the teacher is able and willing
to provide the teaching!
Sent:
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:21 PM
Subject: Tai Chi Chuan - The Dynamic Balance
In our lesson
this morning, I was practising and then you got us to focus
on our legs, then I experienced this amazing transfer of
energy from left to right and then left then right again, as
we shifted our weight. It was very dynamic. I learnt the
next level of Tai Chi Chuan today and I understand there are
108 levels? Wow!
The novice cut at Tai Chi is that you see these slow
movements that seem easy and then as you understand better
you realise that these apparently slow movements are in fact
body moving in a dynamic balance.
Then you
mentioned those profound words "The dance of Lord Shiva; if
it stops what happens?" ...Indeed the whole creation is kept
in dynamic balance by the dance of Shiva and Tai Chi Chuan
is an opportunity to experience that at a microcosmic level.
What a privilege!
Then as I was driving back, I was moved by the thought of
the cosmic nature of Tai Chi Chuan and also realising how
easy it is to lose perspective and get caught up in the
mundane things of the world.
Sent:
Friday, December 22, 2006 5:02 PM
Subject: Hello
I am really enjoying Tai Chi. Although I have
only attended 3 classes so far, it has been an
enriching experience.
In particular, when I was doing the moves in my
second class, I felt the movement of energy
through my body and in one of the postures when
the left and right hands came together, it
resulted in exchange of energy which was
incredible.
You have mentioned that Tai Chi contains the
potential for ‘Chi’ to awaken spontaneously in
the student and thereafter to flow
spontaneously. I didn’t realise it could happen
so quickly.
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