Summary of the Five Developments Listen here: Also known as the: Five Aggregates, Five Skandhas, Five Sources of clinging Five developments are Empty Because Illusion being is Empty So our feelings,thinking, Actions, and experience are all Empty In Empty , Heart is free and Joy , out of Ego Dream illusion and relief all suffering
Human wisdom is low because there are many limitations at our level of existence. These restrictions come from blindness. Our consciousness thinks, “I am the most important, more important than the entire universe.” That is our ego. (Sifu:) At 46, my martial art technique is more explosive than all of you students. Zhang Seng Feng
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
Fake Value is Personal Desire: this brings you suffering. Why? Personal desire is rooted in greed; greed makes you a slave to that power: getting stressed because you don’t have enough possessions, trying hard to acquire them, being afraid of losing them. By contrast, wisdom and compassion do not bring you suffering because they take
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
