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Zhang Sanfeng – Tai Ji
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…
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Differences between Eastern and Western Martial Arts
Comparing Western Physical Training and Eastern Martial Arts 1. Westerners concentrate on building up their bodies and are more concerned with their appearance than their performance. If people were racing cars, Westerners would only be interested in the shell. Eastern martial arts are not about caring how big that shell is, but how aerodynamic and…
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Tai Chi (Taiji)
This is a philosophy as well as a martial art technique. (The correct spelling is “Taiji” but “Tai Chi” is more common.) The philosophy of Tai Chi comes from Taoism. According to Taoism, the essence of life has no limitation. In Chinese it’s called wuji. According to the philosophy, wuji acts in two opposite directions:…
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Buddhism
The philosophy of Buddhism was created by Siddhartha Buddha, but the religion appeared in many different groups, created by ordinary human needs. It has existed for nearly 2500 years. Buddhism also teaches basically the same thing as Taoism: to reach complete freedom (no limitation). Still, there are two main differences between them. The first is…