Geometry of Tai Chi Chuan
The geometry of Tai Chi Chuan is a certain quality of the body, allowing to improve its characteristics. The main objective here is the task of deepening the penetration of energy, changing the tension of the body and, most importantly, the feeding and strengthening of the consciousness, which also leads to the improvement of its geometric form.
The true meaning of any development is when we understand how to improve our energy, when we can move from one phase of vibrational state to another. And here it is important to understand that the formula of interaction between the body, energy and brain is impossible without the geometry. The key task to change and improve yourself, which means to create conditions for increasing the energy, actually, is the ability to understand the idea of proportion.
The proportion is the building and cultivation of the geometry, which rests on a foundation, i.e. a certain given or developed integrity, introduced in the idea of the anatomy of Tai Chi Chuan. In fact, we can say that the geometry of Tai Chi Chuan is really a great project of the Taoist teachings, according to which Man learns to build a temple in himself (of course, if he considers this art as an alchemical science, and not just follow some historical insinuations, which he also covers with the word “tradition”).
The knowledge of the geometry of Tai Chi Chuan is, in fact, the knowledge of the trigrams, which actually represents this art. This is a great formula of acts, not a composition of some exercises and forms. Or, it would be more correct to say that it is a magic square, the formula of which is hidden behind the scheme of certain movements. This square must be realized through the prism of measure. Its precise role is to lead to the most important: the control of internal effort.
The geometry of Tai Chi Chuan is not so much a particular constructed algorithm of actions as the bringing of Man to the possibility of operating these actions, rather than a formal following of them. However, the most important thing is the preparation for the next step – the alchemy of Tai Chi Chuan, where we already achieve the process of energy transformation in the previously created conditions for that.
27 june 2013
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