Taiji Quan: The Wisdom of Water
"All natural things curl, swirl, twist, and flow in patterns like
flowing water. Thus we sense something similar in clouds, smoke,
streams, the wind-blown waves of sand on the beach, the pattern of
branches against the sky, the shape of summer grasses, the markings on
rocks, the movement of animals. Even solid bones have lines of flow on
their exterior and in their spongy interior. Spiders build their webs,
caterpillars their cocoons in water-like spirals. The rings in an
exposed log look like a whirlpool. And looking up in the night sky we
can see a river of stars.[...]Taiji Quan has been compared to a great
river because each posture flows smoothly into the next without break."
Kenneth Cohen, shares more in this reflective post on the wisdom of
water and how it infuses the ancient practice of Taiji Quan-- and our
lives.
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