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TAIJIQIANG – Taiji Spear

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 Tai Chi Spear Ode

If your spear pierces, my spear seizes.

If your spear pauses, my spear thrusts.

If your spear comes in like an arrow, my spear removes it like lightening.

If your spear acts like a Golden Rooster Recklessly Nodding His Head,

Then my spear removes it like Poking Grass to Search for a Snake.

And still this type of skill is not considered as expertise as Tai Chi Spear.

(attributed to Li Ying-Arng, by Stuart Alve Olson: The Wind Sweeps Away the Plum Blossoms, 1985)

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Resist my resistance

I cannot at the same time connect and resist. So I must choose.

In the past, I have chosen resistance or unconscious connection and on a few lucky occasions, I chose conscious connection. Today, it is my practice:  I choose consciously to connect.

In order to connect resistance doesn’t work.  Or it only works partially – it creates a shallow connection at best. What I want is a deep connection.

How to have a deep connection? Soften, relax, breathe, center, root, let the energy flow – this creates the condition I need for deep connection.  To self and to partner.

And from here I can listen, understand, receive and transform. Without connection, I can do none of those things.

I am left only with my resistance.