Nowadays, books about Tai Chi are
many. Most of them focus on its tangible
aspects like standards and requirements on postures and movements.
Most writers on Tai Chi have either
maintained an embarrassing silence concerning energy of Qi, the intangible
aspect of Kung Fu, or just put it in a marginal place and leave it
un-elaborated.
However, the greatness of Tai Chi lies in its intangible aspect. “What
is essential is invisible to the eye.” [1]
This is the diamond on the top of the crown of Kung Fu. What a shame if we present the crown to the
world and find that the diamond has gone.
Energy of Qi is not unique in Tai Chi
Quan. Many Kung Fu varieties aim at it
at their advanced level.
Terms and jargons in traditional Kung Fu
theories are usually loan words from traditional religion or philosophy
classics. The cultural content density creates
high barrier for westerners to understand.
In the following articles, I try to summarize
what I have learned from Mr. Tan Jing, my Kung Fu teacher. In these articles, I try to present a general
introduction to intangible aspect of Kung Fu with least of those traditional
Chinese terms and jargons.
Here I need a scaffolding framework that
westerners are familiar with. I choose
Bible.
However, the verses quoted in the articles
may not be equivalent to their original message because they are used as
analogy for scaffolding purpose. Therefore,
Bible verses in this context are like bridges that facilitate western Tai Chi
learners to cross from known to unknown.
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