My regular push hand class has pushed me further and further away - the “things I thought I knew” column is migrating to the “things I don’t know” column. So i’m losing my balance more often, and losing concentration more often as well, while I ride the transitional learning curve.
One of the bad habits [...]
We’ve heard of outsourcing. Companies are doing it. Employees are afraid of it. China (among others) is welcoming it. As a result, outsourcing has different meanings to different people. To me, outsourcing actually holds a deeper root than what companies are currently doing. It has become a convenient tool for us to relinquish our responsibility [...]
I read books to understand tai ji. I read books to find answers to why this move must be like this and why the hand must be there. I read to know more, to understand more. My conversation with my teacher told me something entirely different.
He reads to confirm his understanding. He buys lots of [...]
Honest answers - an endangered species of the human vocabulary. It’s extinction among adults is probably just on the horizon, saved by the fact that human population is growing - more kids, more honest answers, until they grow up. Even kids tell lies.
So why do we find honest answers so difficult to come by? Or [...]