Laozi’s second chapter reads :
Existence and
absence, difficult and easy, long and short, high and low, high-pitch and low-pitch,
forward and backward, within every pair the one generates and complements the
other.”
This statement seems very contradictory, yet
all these apparent contradictions stimulate the emergence of life’s deeper
potential. It is a philosophy of life and a principle for self-cultivation. It
teaches us that whatever our current situation is, it has the potential to
change. And it teaches that things may actually be the opposite of what they
seem.
Similar contradictions are found in Taichi. They
describe the natural balancing between Yin
and Yang. So, in Taichi, we find the
skills of “stillness overcoming motion”,
“small triumphing over large”, “softness overcoming hardness”, “four ounces toppling one thousand pounds”
and “Yin and Yang mutually sustain each
other”. The skill of “Yin and Yang
mutually sustain each other” is to emerge naturally; the key is to hide the
usage of Yang and to display the effects
of Yin, or to hide the usage of Yin and to display the effects of Yang.
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