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More on strength through non-attachment and non-resistance.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 As Peter Ralston says, problems between people "are really a parallel to what occurs in martial interaction and in fighting." Therefore I keep practicing the martial art of t'ai chi daily, and t'ai chi fighting/pushing hands weekly.  The t'ai chi practitioners whom I push hands with on the weekends -- right up to the highly skilled -- are all selfless and patient in helping me advance to higher levels of martial art ability, and I try doing the same with those who are newer to t'ai chi pushing/sensing hands than I. Yesterday, I learned the most from three advanced practitioners one after another, as the attendees split into two facing lines to move from opponent to opponent around every seven minutes. My first two opponents kept uprooting me two Sundays ago, and were difficult to push; I spent the following days focusing more on rooting into the ground and to relaxing and sinking my ch'i to my tan t'ien...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on June 28, 2009 (boomark / email).