“We are waves. IT, is the sea”
—Anonymous
TaiJi is an Ocean.
The student is a castaway in a small boat, with no path to safety.
The purpose of the Teacher, is to limit the exposure to the art.
To expose only what the student might first comprehend...
TaiJi Quan is very old. Nobody knows all of it.
On any given day, one can touch just the merest fraction
of a sliver of what it encompasses.
So the teacher selects a "path of exposure"
which shows the student a way into the heart of the study --
and provides confidence in her own ability to learn, swim, sail and survive.
Teaching of Unknown Origin
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