How can you listen to the world when you can't quieten the mind enough to listen to yourself? How an you listen to someone pushing against you when you can't listen to yourself first? My teacher Wee Kee Jin explained that "Shen - putting the spirit within", until then sounded vague and easily overlooked, but when he interpreted to us as 'listening to the changes that are occurring in your body as you move in the various Tai Chi exercises suddenly it all made sense.
I mention listening to the world but I really mean the dao and following the flow of the universe (for want of a better word) or natural forces, as is the ideal of Daoism but how can you do that if you are tense and your mind is cluttered or stressed out. Tai Chi is great in its calming, meditative effect if only for reducing stress and better health. However, it only occurred to me recently that if you can still your mind to more quiet levels, you may be more sensitive to the synchronous events that are happening all the time around you and you 'll be more sensitive to linking the events together which begin to show you the direction of the flow that you should be following.
I mention listening to the world but I really mean the dao and following the flow of the universe (for want of a better word) or natural forces, as is the ideal of Daoism but how can you do that if you are tense and your mind is cluttered or stressed out. Tai Chi is great in its calming, meditative effect if only for reducing stress and better health. However, it only occurred to me recently that if you can still your mind to more quiet levels, you may be more sensitive to the synchronous events that are happening all the time around you and you 'll be more sensitive to linking the events together which begin to show you the direction of the flow that you should be following.
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