When all people know beauty as beauty, ugliness arises.
When all people know good as good, evil arises.
Thus being and non-being generate each other.
Difficult and easy complement each other.
Long and short form each other.
High and low support each other.
Tone and voice harmonize each other.
Front and back follow each other.
(Tao Te Ching)
One of the keys to Taoist thought is the recognition of dualities as one. All processes have active and passive principles. All physical conditions have opposites. All mental perceptions have differentiation and comparison. Most failures come from thinking of the dualities as polarities. Instead of seeing opposite actions and aspect as complementary, we label one as good, automatically making the other bad, and try to ignore or eliminate the other.
Tai chi chuan is the manifestation of this principles (Tao). When opponent attack, we yield to unite with his motion. When opponent retreat, we advance. When he is yin, we will be yang. When he is yang, we change and complement as yin. There is no conflict and struggle, merely harmonizing and balancing to make the motion whole.
If you truly understand and able to grasp this yin yang principle, your tai chi chuan skill will improve dramastically. They will be no opponent you cannot handle no matter how skillfully they are. Tai chi chuan is called the ultimate supreme boxing not for nothing.
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