When we cut, and even more so when we thrust, we must do it softly.
Cheng Man Ching
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Professor Cheng Man Ching
Here you find articles around Professor Cheng Man Ching’s life and work. He was a poet, calligrapher, painter, martial arts practitioner, and a Chinese medical doctor. We will add articles and interviews on a regular base.
“If you hold the blade over your head, 10,000 sword faeries will laugh at you.”
I have chosen five applications from the Cheng Man Ch’ing Sword form, in order to illustrate the Tai Chi principles at work.
This method is a health regime, a martial art and a way to enlightenment. The practitioner follows the changes of “Ti” or the Universe and is the Micro version of the Macro. Ti, in Mandarin, means Earth or our reality, three dimension plus time/space.
Momentum is used in Tai Chi while doing the forms, along with centrifugal force, gravity and levity.
to go with the flow and not to struggle against it-
To vie and struggle in order to win is not doing Cheng Man Ch’ing Tai Chi.
“Doctors heal the sick with Medicine and Surgery. — Tai Chi, when practiced regularly …
When Cheng Man Ching changed the Yang form, it was not simply to make it shorter.
Roll Back is not an aggressive move, it is a ‘passive’ response to an aggressive move.