Bowing We are going to bow to give thanks to the image of Siddhartha Buddha. The statue is not Buddha; it’s just a piece of wood. Bowing to the image has several functions. What are they? Answer (Andrew) One function is to get rid of your ego. Comment (Sifu) Yes. You want to learn from
The history of Buddhism Tai Chi power is a perfect philosophy: it teaches you how to bring your energy together into any point. The longer you train, the more detailed philosophy you know – how to connect the energy, how to release tension, how to have better posture, how to concentrate, how to put emotion
Knowing by Mind Whenever you think that you know something by mind, it’s actually a sign that you aren’t aware by heart; when you aware by heart, you don’t use your brain to think. When your heart is aware, you don’t have to use your brain anymore; you just do it, perfectly, by intuition. Your
Knowledge Before you can understand Will, you must remove the Blind Ego Habit of “I know” from your brain consciousness and start using wisdom with the awareness from your heart. If you live in this blind habit of “I know”, your mind is too lazy to stay sharp all the time. When your heart can
Reincarnation is blindness. The first form of Tai Chi teaches centre power and explosion power. Once learned, you can use light, sensitive moves. Even when light, joyful, sensitive, and abstract, Tai Chi still looks powerful. Without centre rotation power from your foot exploding in a light, sensitive and free way, you can’t join your whole
Zhang Sanfeng – Tai Ji Awareness To have a life means to be sensitive, to be aware of more. If you can’t be delicately and sensitively aware of your body, then you are not aware of life. If you don’t take awareness of your body as your main value, you are blind to the principal
There are four levels of Tai Chi 1. Condition Level Tai Chi Posture control Chi Gong Stretching Muscle balance development Release tension through acupuncture and massage 2. Healing Level Tai Chi Chi Gong Slow and easy Without explosion Make sure energy goes up not down 3. Martial Art Level Tai Chi All the first two
Hand flow: charge energy from chakras and spring, point wait for the energy to flow before moving the hand. Rotation discipline: before, during, and after any rotation keep shooting energy up from the spring point and seven chakras. Sinking move: sink naturally, waiting for the force of gravity, meanwhile remain shooting the energy up through
In Buddhism, the Four Devils are: The Three Poison consciousness: Greed, Hate, and Stupidity Worry Fear of death Other peoples’ Three Poison consciousness We receive these devils and create suffering for ourselves. They block our vision like dirty sunglasses block our eyesight. The main difference is that we forget that we are seeing the world
Part One: Forbearance Sifu: There are some people who keep losing things: they are always looking for something but can’t find it. Where does this habit come from? Red Bull: Carelessness. Sifu: Where does that come from? Scott: Being too busy. Red Bull: From being too lazy to be precise. Sean Pig: They have a
How to develop a happy heart You build up stress and get “psycho” because of a bad habit: you don’t balance your stress every day. It’s like a snowball rolling down a hill. In the beginning, it’s small and you can stop it. As it rolls, it becomes bigger; eventually, it is big enough to
https://soundcloud.com/tim-fairweather-1/3-types-of-bodhisattva-kindness This book from Pure Name Buddha teaches thirty different types of kindness without ego. Another book teaches a thousand, and they are just examples. If you want to make your kindness power a hundred per cent pure, you can spend your whole life learning about kindness. We won’t try to learn thirty types
Discipline 1: Pose and Feeling Control Start with the pose, as if being eternal, ending with silence, as if there is no time. Beginning with any pose, you must concentrate fully, without fear, and feel as if the whole universe is focused on you as its centre. Trust yourself as if you control the entire
Let’s first compare martial art training to driving a racing car, before explaining the top secrets of self-defence. A well-trained martial art body (strong bone density, well-developed muscles, and flexibility) is the high-tech design of a racing car’s shape. The force of martial art (energy and speed) is the engine. The fighting technique (ability to
