Tai Chi Chuan – history

Zhang Sanfeng Zhang Sanfeng was a legendary Chinese Taoist who invented Tai Chi Chuan and was reported to have achieved immortality. According to various accounts, he was born in Shaowu, Nanping, Fujian during the Southern Song dynasty and lived for over 307 years until the mid-Ming dynasty. Yang Luchan Yang Lu Chan or Yang Luchan, also known…

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Meditation

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration. Nhat Hanh

Healthy food

Live in rooms full of light. Avoid heavy food. Be moderate in the drinking of wine. Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics. Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water. Change surroundings and take long journeys. Strictly avoid frightening ideas. Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements. Listen to music. Aulus Cornelius Celsus…

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Body conditioning training

Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set and you’re working out, you’re going to feel good. Jason Statham

Energetic exercises

Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy. Paramahansa Yogananda

Pranayama

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment. Nhat Hanh

Tai Chi Chuan – basic principles

Tai Chi Chuan is the art of letting hardness dwell within softness and hiding a needle within cotton Yang Cheng Fu The13 basic principles of Tai Chi practice:1. Sinking the shoulders and dropping of elbows. 2. Relaxing of chest and rounding the back.3. Sinking chi down to dan tien.4. Lightly pointing up the head.5. Relaxation of…

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Pray

Every experience, no matter how bad it seems, holds within a blessing of some kind. The goal is to find it. Gautama Buddha The more I study science, the more I believe in God. Albert Einstein

Happiness

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free. Nhat Hanh

Inspiration story

Paramhansa Yogananda – Autobiografy of a yogi Yang Cheng Fu – The Story of a Cotton Thread. Yang Lu Chan – Yang Wudi

Wisdom

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. Rumi Freedom is not doing what you want when you want. Freedom is the power to do what has to be done when it needs to be done. Hugh Douglas To become learned, each day…

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Ancient techniques

The method of trying to conquer hatred through hatred never succeeds in overcoming hatred. But, the method of overcoming hatred through non-hatred is eternally effective. That is why that method is described as eternal wisdom. Gautama Buddha Over last hundred years our life style changed drastically. Our technic changed incomparably with any other period of…

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