Tai Chi Sayings And Quotes

Here are some other things that science says can genuinely help us not only “feel better” but actually facilitate the completion of the stress response cycle: sleep; affection (more on that in the next section); any form of meditation, including mindfulness, yoga, tai chi, body scans, etc. (more on that in chapter 9); and allowing yourself a good old cry or primal scream

The advisors, on the other hand, were like older brothers and sisters. My favorite was Bill Symes, who'd been a founding member of Fellowship in 1967. He was in his early twenties now and studying religion at Webster University. He had shoulders like a two-oxen yoke, a ponytail as thick as a pony's tail, and feet requiring the largest size of Earth Shoes. He was a good musician, a passionate attacker of steel acoustical guitar strings. He liked to walk into Burger King and loudly order two Whoppers with no meat. If he was losing a Spades game, he would take a card out of his hand, tell the other players, "Play this suit!" and then lick the card and stick it to his forehead facing out. In discussions, he liked to lean into other people's space and bark at them. He said, "You better deal with that!" He said, "Sounds to me like you've got a problem that you're not talking about!" He said, "You know what? I don't think you believe one word of what you just said to me!" He said, "Any resistance will be met with an aggressive response!" If you hesitated when he moved to hug you, he backed away and spread his arms wide and goggled at you with raised eyebrows, as if to say, "Hello? Are you going to hug me, or what?" If he wasn't playing guitar he was reading Jung, and if he wasn't reading Jung he was birdwatching, and if he wasn't birdwatching he was practicing tai chi, and if you came up to him during his practice and asked him how he would defend himself if you tried to mug him with a gun, he would demonstrate, in dreamy Eastern motion, how to remove a wallet from a back pocket and hand it over. Listening to the radio in his VW Bug, he might suddenly cry out, "I want to hear... 'La Grange' by ZZ Top!" and slap the dashboard. The radio would then play "La Grange.

When you're being chased by a lion, what do you do? You run. So when you're stressed out by your job (or by your sex life), what do you do? You run...or walk, or get on the elliptical machine or go out dancing or even just dance around your bedroom. Physical activity is the single most efficient strategy for completing the stress response cycle and recalibrating your central nervous system into a calm state...Here are some other things that science says can genuinely help us not only "feel better" but actually faciliatate the completion of the stress response cycle: sleep; affection (more on that in the next section); any form of meditation, including mindfulness, yoga, tai chi, body scans, etc. (more on that in chapter 9); and allowing yourself a good old cry or primal scream-though you have to be careful with this one...Art, used in the same way, can help.

Long ago, there was a servant who served a bad tempered and impatient master. It did not matter how he tried, he was always blamed and beaten by this master. However, it was the strange truth that the servant was always happy, and his master was always sad and depressed. One day, there was a kind man who could not understand this phenomenon, and finally he decided to ask this servant why he was always happy even though he was treated so badly. The servant replied: “Everyone has one day of life each day; half of the day is spent awake and the other half is spent sleeping. Although in the daytime, I am a servant and my master treats me badly, in the nighttime, I always dream that I am a king and there are thousands of servants serving me luxuriously. Look at my master: In the daytime, he is mad, depressed, greedy, and unhappy. In the nighttime, he has nightmares and cannot even have one night of nice rest. I really feel sorry for my master. Comparing me to him, I am surely happier than he is.” Friends, what do you think about this story? You are the only one responsible for your happiness. If you are not satisfied and always complain about what you have obtained, you will be on the course of forever-unhappiness. It is said in the West: “If you smile, the whole world smiles with you, but if you cry, you cry alone.” What an accurate saying!

The turning-point [in Klosters, Switzerland in 1988] [Diana’s sister] Jane’s wonderfully solid. If you ring up with a drama, she says: ‘Golly, gosh, Duch, how horrible, how sad and how awful’ and gets angry. But my sister Sarah swears: ‘Poor Duch, such a shitty thing to happen.’ My father says: ‘Just remember we always love you.’ But that summer [1988] when I made so many cock-ups I sat myself down in the autumn, when I was in Scotland, and I remember saying to myself: ‘Right, Diana, it’s no good, you’ve got to change it right round, this publicity, you’ve got to grow up and be responsible. You’ve got to understand that you can’t do what other 26- and 27-year olds are doing. You’ve been chosen to do a position so you must adapt to the position and stop fighting it.’ I remember my conversation so well, sitting by water. I always sit by water when contemplating. Stephen Twigg [a therapist] who comes to see me said once: ‘Whatever anybody else thinks of you is none of your business.’ That sat with me. Then once someone said to me, when I said I’ve got to go up to Balmoral, and they said: ‘Well, you’ve got to put up with them but they’ve also got to put up with you.’ This myth about me hating Balmoral--I love Scotland but just the atmosphere drains me to nothing. I go up ‘strong Diana.’ I come away depleted of everything because they just suck me dry, because I tune in to all their moods and, boy, are there some undercurrents there! Instead of having a holiday, it’ the most stressful time of the year. I love being out all day. I love the stalking. I’m much happier now. I’m not blissful but much more content than I’ve ever been. I’ve really gone down deep, scraped the bottom a couple times and come up again and it’s very nice meeting people now and talking about tai-chi and people say: ‘Tai-chi--what do you know about tai-chi?’ and I said: ‘An energy flow,’ and all this and they look at me and they say: ‘She’s the girl who’s supposed to like shopping and clothes the whole time. She’s not supposed to know about spiritual things.

I’ve really gone down deep, scraped the bottom a couple of times and come up again, and it’s very nice meeting people now and talking about tai chi and people say: ‘Tai chi – what do you know about tai chi?’ and I say: ‘An energy flow’, and all this and they look at me and they say: ‘She’s the girl who’s supposed to like shopping and clothes the whole time. She’s not supposed to know about spiritual things.

Healing is nothing more, and nothing less, than the restoration of the harmonious circulation of your ch'i.  Unlike Western medicine, which looks for certain invasive factors (like germs or viruses) to be the cause of disease, the Chinese paradigm says that the imbalanced state of your ch'i allows the invasive factors to affect you.

I find a list of books and periodicals not allowed inside Louisiana prisons. It includes Fifty Shades of Grey; Lady Gaga Extreme Style; Surrealism and the Occult; Tai Chi Fa Jin: Advanced Techniques for Discharging Chi Energy; The Complete Book of Zen; Socialism vs Anarchism: A Debate; and Native American Crafts & Skills. On Miss Roberts's desk is a confiscated book: Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power... She says this book is banned because it's considered "mind-bending material," though she did enjoy it herself.

start on time? Is the bathroom clean? Are your feelings positive in that space? You won’t find perfection anywhere, nor do you need it. Just go in with a humble attitude and soak up everything you can. Come a few minutes early and sweep the floor or tidy the bathroom. Bring fresh flowers. Contribute, and learn whatever you can, and when the time comes to move on, leave on good terms with everyone. Don’t show up at all unless you’re willing to commit to at least six months of humble receptiveness. And don’t quit without notifying the instructor and thanking him or her sincerely. Present a small gift, nicely wrapped, to cement what should be a lifelong relationship. In China, they say a teacher for a day is a parent for a lifetime.

V. Phẩm Từ Bỏ 94. I. Thâu Nhiếp (S.iv,70) 1) ... 2) -- Có sáu xúc xứ này, này các Tỷ-kheo, không nhiếp phục, không phòng hộ, không bảo vệ, không thâu nhiếp, đem lại đau khổ. Thế nào là sáu? 3-5) Mắt xúc xứ, này các Tỷ-kheo, không nhiếp phục, không phòng hộ, không bảo vệ, không thâu nhiếp, đem lại đau khổ... Tai... Mũi... 6-7) ... Lưỡi... Thân... 8) Ý xúc xứ, này các Tỷ-kheo, không nhiếp phục, không phòng hộ, không bảo vệ, không thâu nhiếp, đem lại đau khổ. 9) Sáu xúc xứ này, này các Tỷ-kheo, không nhiếp phục, không phòng hộ, không bảo vệ, không thâu nhiếp, đem lại đau khổ. 10) Có sáu xúc này, này các Tỷ-kheo, khéo nhiếp phục, khéo phòng hộ, khéo bảo vệ, khéo thâu nhiếp, đem lại an lạc. Thế nào là sáu? 11-13) Mắt xúc xứ, này các Tỷ-kheo, khéo nhiếp phục, khéo phòng hộ, khéo bảo vệ, khéo thâu nhiếp, đem lại an lạc... Tai... Mũi... 14-15) ... Lưỡi... Thân... 16) Ý xúc xứ, này các Tỷ-kheo, khéo nhiếp phục, khéo phòng hộ, khéo bảo vệ, khéo thâu nhiếp, đem lại an lạc. 17) Sáu xúc xứ này, này các Tỷ-kheo, khéo nhiếp phục, khéo phòng hộ, khéo bảo vệ, khéo thâu nhiếp, đem lại an lạc. 18) Thế Tôn nói như vậy. Nói như vậy xong, bậc Ðạo Sư lại nói thêm: 1) Hỡi các vị Tỷ-kheo, Chính sáu xúc xứ này, Chỗ nào không thâu nhiếp, Chỗ ấy có đau khổ. Những ai học biết được, Chế ngự, phòng hộ chúng, Với lòng tin làm bạn, Sống thoát ly dục vọng. 2) Thấy sắc pháp khả ái, Thấy sắc không khả ái, Hãy nhiếp phục đường tham, Ðối các sắc khả ái, Chớ khiến ý nhiễm ô: "Ðối sắc, ta không thích". 3) Sau khi nghe các tiếng, Khả ái, không khả ái, Chớ để tâm say mê, Với các tiếng khả ái. Hãy nhiếp phục lòng sân, Với tiếng không khả ái, Chớ khiến ý nhiễm ô: "Ðối tiếng, ta không thích". 4) Sau khi ngửi các hương, Thơm dịu, thật khả ái, Sau khi ngửi các hương, Bất tịnh, thật đáng ghét; Hãy nhiếp phục lòng sân, Ðối các hương đáng ghét, Còn đối hương khả ái, Chớ để dục chi phối. 5) Nếm xong vị ngon ngọt, Và nếm vị không ngon, Chớ có sanh tham luyến, Khi hưởng nếm vị ngon, Chớ nói lời chống đối, Khi nếm vị không ngon. 6) Khi cảm thọ lạc xúc, Chớ đắm say tham luyến, Khi cảm thọ khổ xúc, Chớ bị xúc động mạnh. Ðối với cả hai xúc, Lạc, khổ đều niệm xả, Không thích, không chống đối, Bất cứ loại xúc nào. 7) Ðối với các người khác, Mê theo hý luận tưởng, Họ mê theo hý luận, Họ hành theo hư tưởng; Hãy đoạn trừ tất cả, Gia sự do ý tạo, Hãy nhiếp các hành động, Hướng đến hạnh viễn ly. 8) Như vậy đối sáu xứ, Khi ý khéo tu tập, Nếu có cảm xúc gì, Tâm không bị dao động. Tỷ-kheo hãy nhiếp phục, Cả hai tham sân ấy, Hãy đến bờ bên kia, Vượt buộc ràng sanh tử.

Being able to say “I’ll try again” is one of the deepest expressions of faith in oneself. When