Duanshou by Wang Xuanjie
Wang Xuanjie teaches in his siheyuan
Dachengquan (Wang Xuejie)
Wang Xuanjie was a student of Yiquan Granmaster Wang Xiangzhai.
Reference:
Dachengquan (jul 1988) by Wang Xuanjie
ISBN 9789622381117
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Yiquan Sanshou with Li Quanyou
Master Li Jun Feng of the ShengZhen Society demonstrates “Awakening The Soul” qigong.
Reference: www.shengzhen.org
80 Years Old - Wei ShuRen
1. Your study should be broad, diversified. Do not limit yourself. This principle can be compared to your stance, which moves easily in many different directions.
2. Examine and question. Ask yourself how and why T’ai Chi works. This principle can be compared to your sensitivity, which is receptive to that comparison which others ignore.
3. Be deliberate and careful in your thinking. Use your mind to discover the proper understanding power.
4. Clearly examine. Separate concepts distinctly then decide upon the proper course. This principle can be compared to the continuous motion of T’ai Chi.
5. Practice sincerely. This principle can be compared to heaven and earth, the eternal.
Reference:
Translations of early Unknown Tai Chi Masters
Waysun Liao Tai Chi Classics
ISBN 1570627495
p. 125-126
1. Do not be concerned with form. Do not be concerned with the ways in which form manifests. It is best to forget your own existence.
2. Your entire body should be transparent and empty. Let inside and outside fuse together and become one..
3. Learn to ignore external objects. Allow your mind to guide you and act spontaneously, in accordance with the moment.
4. The sun sets on the western mountain. The cliff thrusts forward, suspended in space. See the ocean in its vastness and the sky in its immensity.
5. The tiger’s roar is deep and mighty. The monkey’s cry is high and shrill.
So should you refine your spirit, cultivating the positive and the negative.
6. The water of spring is clear, like fine crystal. The water of the pond lies still and placid. Your mind should be as the water and your spirit like the spring.
7. The river roars. The stormy ocean boils. Make your ch’i like these natural wonders.
8. Seek perfection sincerely. Establish life. When you have settled the spirit, you may cultivate the ch’i.
Reference:
Translations of early Unknown Tai Chi Masters
Waysun Liao Tai Chi Classics
ISBN 1570627495
p. 126
1. Taijiquan. Thirteen postures.
The marvel lies in the nature of qi; yin and yang.
2. It changes into infinity and returns to the one.
Returns to the one, taijiquan.
3. The two primary principles (yin and yang) and four manifestations are without boundary.
To ride the wind, the head is suspended at the crown, from above.
4. I have words for those who can understand:
“If the yonquan (bubbling well) has no root, or the yao (waist) has no control, life long practise will be in vain”.
5. There is no secret about the substance and function, they interrelate.
The only way is to let wide and flowing qi extend into the fingers.
6. Always remain in central equilibrium during peng (ward off), lu (roll-back), ji (press), an (push), cai (pluck), lie (split), zhou (elbow strike) and kao (lean-on), and also when steeping forward, sitting backward, looking left, looking right, and staying centered.
7. Neutralizing without neutralizing, yielding without yielding.
Sit back before you move forward.
8. When the body is like a cloud, the whole body functions as the hands.
The hands are not [only] the hands.
9. The mind must always remain aware.
Reference:
The Song of Substance translated by Wee Kee Jin
Taijiquan Wuwei: A Natural Process
ISBN 9780473097813
p. 123
The sixteen steeps of transferring power
1. Root and twist the foot, allowing power to travel up the leg.
2. Let the power spring upward at the knee.
3. Allow the power to move freely in any direction at the waist.
4. Drive the power upward through the back.
5. Let the power penetrate to the crown point at the top of the head.
6. From the crown point, mingle the power with your chi and circulate it through the entire body.
7. Drive the power to the palm.
8. Push the power to the fingertips.
9. Condense the power into the bone marrow throughout the entire body.
10. Merge the power with the spirit, making them one.
11. Listen with your mind at the ear, almost as if condensing slightly.
12. Concentrate at the area of your nose.
13. Breathe to the lungs.
14. Control the mouth, carefully regulating the breathing.
15. Spread the power to the entire body.
16. Push the power to the ends of body hairs.
Reference:
Waysun Liao Tai Chi Classics
ISBN 1570627495
p. 83
Attributed to T’an Meng-hsien
(as researched by Lee N. Scheele)
The Song of Peng
What is the meaning of Peng energy?
It is like the water supporting a moving boat.
First sink the ch’i to the tan-t’ien,
then hold the head as if suspended from above.
The entire body is filled with springlike energy,
opening and closing in a very quick moment.
Even if the opponent uses a thousand pounds of force,
he can be uprooted and made to float without difficulty.
The Song of Lu
What is the meaning of Lu energy?
Entice the opponent toward you by allowing him to advance,
lightly and nimbly follow his incoming force
without disconnecting and without resisting.
When his force reaches its farthest extent,
it will naturally become empty.
The opponent can then be let go or countered at will.
Maintain your central equilibrium
and your opponent cannot gain an advantage.
The Song of Chi
What is the meaning of Chi energy?
There are two aspects to its functional use:
The direct way is to go to meet the opponent
and attach gently in one movement.
The indirect way is to use the reaction force
like the rebound of a ball bouncing off a wall, or
a coin thrown on a drumhead,
bouncing off with a ringing sound.
The Song of An
What is the meaning of An energy?
When applied it is like flowing water.
The substantial is concealed in the insubstantial.
When the flow is swift it is difficult to resist.
Coming to a high place, it swells and fills the place up;
meeting a hollow it dives downward.
The waves rise and fall,
finding a hole they will surely surge in.
The Song of Ts’ai
What is the meaning of Ts’ai energy?
It is like the weight attached to the beam of a balance scale.
Give free play to the opponent’s force
no matter how heavy or light,
you will know how heavy or light it is after weighing it.
To push or pull requires only four ounces,
one thousand pounds can also be balanced.
If you ask what the principle is,
the answer is the function of the lever.
The Song of Lieh
What is the meaning of Lieh energy?
It revolves like a spinning disc.
If something is thrown onto it,
it will immediately be cast more than ten feet away.
Have you not seen a whirlpool form in a swift flowing stream?
The waves roll in spiraling currents.
If a falling leaf drops into it,
it will suddenly sink from sight.
The Song of Chou
What is the meaning of Chou energy?
Its method relates to the Five Elements.
Yin and Yang are divided above and below.
Emptiness and substantiality must be clearly distinguished.
Joined in unbroken continuity,
the opponent cannot resist the posture.
Its explosive pounding is especially fearsome.
When one has mastered the six kinds of energy,
the applications become unlimited.
The Song of K’ao
What is the meaning of K’ao energy?
Its method is divided into the shoulder and back technique.
In Diagonal Flying Posture use shoulder,
but within the shoulder technique
there is also some use of the back.
Once you have the opportunity and can take advantage of the posture,
the technique explodes like pounding a pestle.
Carefully maintain your own center of gravity.
Those who lose it will have no achievement.
Reference: Songs Of The Eight Postures scheele.org
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