Study Tour | Business wisdom Integrated into the Sacred Land of Tai Chi

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From September 19th to 21st, 2019, Master Yang Songquan was invited by the Down-to-earth Education Group to give a “Tai Chi Study Tour Lecture” in Chenjiagou.

The study tour group attending this conference consists of over eighty entrepreneurs from all over the country. They have gathered in Chenjiagou, the holy land of Tai Chi, to jointly explore business wisdom and appreciate the mysteries of Tai Chi.

After a three-day Tai Chi study tour, all the entrepreneurs in the study tour group felt that they had gained a lot. Not only did they increase their business knowledge, but also the ancient Tai Chi wisdom took root in their hearts. I believe that my future career will lead to even greater glories!

A study tour

Chenjiagou is the birthplace of Tai Chi. The study tour group visited the Tai Chi Museum, the Tai Chi Ancestral Hall, the place where Yang Luchan learned Tai Chi and other places, experiencing the profound cultural and historical heritage of the Tai Chi holy land.

The Eight Methods of Tai Chi

Tai Chi Chuan is the most magnificent and perfect engineering structure in the world. This is the nature of Tai Chi Chuan.

The Eight Methods of Tai Chi are the introductory exercises of Tai Chi Chuan and also the gateway to enlightenment.

The door to enlightenment

The door of a person is rectangular and is for people to enter and exit. The door of the Dao is square and hangs in mid-air, just like the Windows in a home for immortals to enter and exit.

Taoist culture in China is alive. This time, the master will teach everyone the essence of Tai Chi. First, one must enter the path of enlightenment, and only then can one cultivate the mind and the body.

Cultivating the mind means keeping the mind from moving rashly, and cultivating the body means keeping the body from moving rashly. One should make the two kidneys, which govern the third potential of the entire body, move.

Practicing boxing is like practicing calligraphy. The Eight Methods of Tai Chi have eight strict steps.

1. Palms facing down

Second, bend your knees, relax your hips and lower your body

Three. Palms facing upwards

Four. Shift the center of gravity with both feet

Five. The palm should face inwards

Six. Bend your knees and relax your hips, with your hands level with your eyebrows

Seven. The palm should face outward

Eight. Shift the center of gravity with both feet

Eight strokes just form a square Taoist gate.

The master led everyone to practice the eight methods of Tai Chi

The Eight Methods of Square and upright Generation

Worship the Taiji Gate.

Opening and closing, transformation and movement

Yin and Yang generate deities.

——Taiji Songquan Team

Senior Coach Wang Wei

The Eight Methods and Self-Cultivation

Both hands represent the heart, but many people’s hands simply don’t listen to the heart.

Practicing the eight methods of Tai Chi is to find the heart and entrust it to the feet. In this way, both hands become weak and both feet become strong, which is called being weak at the top and strong at the bottom. Only in this way can the human body master Tai Chi.

Modern people are generally irritable and impetuous, with their liver and gallbladder rising and their heads feeling heavy and their feet light. This is a typical case of being excessive at the top and weak at the bottom, and it is a kind of degeneration.

A healthy human body is like a big tree, with its two feet as roots. Only when the roots are solid can they penetrate deep into the earth and connect with the earth’s energy. The branches above should be loose and soft in order to withstand the test of wind, rain, thunder and lightning.

Yin and Yang are reversed. Practicing Tai Chi is precisely to enable modern humans to return to the path of true happiness and health from the state of being impetuous, unhealthy and abnormal.

The Eight Methods and Cultivating the Mind

The Great Way is the interdependence of movement and stillness, seeking movement within stillness and stillness within movement.

Those who can’t rest can’t achieve great things, and those who can’t calm down have no realm.

In the fast-paced modern society, many people only have movement but no stillness; they can only move but not remain still.

Through the eight methods of Tai Chi, find your heart, brain and body, and separate them. By practicing keeping the mind still and the body moving but the mind still, one can calm their heart and brain. This is a course that must be cultivated in life.

First comes the realm, then the career, and finally when all are achieved, it is success.

In winter, fruit trees have no leaves at all. This is stillness. Seek movement in stillness, and only then can they bear plump fruits the following year.