tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020010160030365744.post1642689527909080214..comments2024-01-14T00:30:28.922-08:00Comments on Taoist Meditation: Tai chi and spiritualityPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15867403006412320812noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020010160030365744.post-82296811263411337772013-12-01T20:09:54.765-08:002013-12-01T20:09:54.765-08:00Thanks Bernard for your input. Yours is certainly ...Thanks Bernard for your input. Yours is certainly one important view in our tai chi community. For me, I'm more interested in what meaningful ways that tai chi can be applied, rather than what is the definitive way to define tai chi. As for dancing, prominent Taiwanese tai chi master Xiong Hui熊衛 and his students (one of XW's students, a tai chi tournament gold medal awardee, was the tai chi consultant of Lee Ang's first feature film Pushing Hands) taught tai chi to professional dancers of <a href="http://tao-meditation.blogspot.hk/2010/12/tai-chi-as-moving-meditation.html" rel="nofollow">Lin Huaimin's Cloud Gate Dance Theater.</a>. As for full contact fights, prominent tai master in the Mainland 孫國璽 participated and trained his students taking part in San Da with good results. These two masters have written a number of books on tai chi (in Chinese), approaching the subject in very different ways.<br /><br />I am very positive about the future of tai chi: Let a hundred flower blossom. <br /><br />Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15867403006412320812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5020010160030365744.post-55536363825919683842013-12-01T04:26:15.357-08:002013-12-01T04:26:15.357-08:00Hi Paul, Taichiquan only originated 200-300 years ...Hi Paul, Taichiquan only originated 200-300 years ago as a marital art and although there are some movements which are based on Taoist neigong my opinion is that they should not be lumped together. <br /><br />Spiritual practice should be spiritual practice and martial art should be martial art, the worst thing that has happened to Taiji is that it has been hijacked by the new age looneys who do some tai chi dance with no jin. Because of the large number of charlatans the real taiji is in danger of being lost. Bernard Kwanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10736797094346584978noreply@blogger.com