Quotes from Masters
“America has the highest death rate from heart disease. It’s the number one killer. There’s no special treatment to cure the disease. T’ai Chi is good for prevention of such heart disease.
Exercises like running and jogging can injure the heart. T’ai Chi is an incomparable, unique method of exercise because you never accelerate the heart rate.
The average blood pressure of a group who practice T’ai Chi is significantly lower than a group who do not. When muscles relax, the blood vessels dilate so more blood can circulate and this drops the blood pressure.
Classics say to mobilize the Chi with your mind and mobilize your whole body with Chi. Think what the final purpose is: That is longevity with Eternal Spring.
T’ai Chi can make your body and mind physiologically in the best condition. This best condition is natural. It’s born with you, not created by T’ai Chi. We only practice T’ai Chi to recover this condition, which we are born with.” Dr. Wen Zee
“It is the development of Chi in the human body, along with the theory of the contrasting balance of Yin and Yang, that makes the T’ai Chi Art the most unique mental and physical disciplinary system that a human being can undertake. Developed through the process of individual discipline, and based on reasons not clearly known or understood by its founders, T’ai Chi has nonetheless proved itself to be the most advanced achievement in body exercise and mind conditioning ever to be created.” Master Waysun Liao
“The more I practice the movements and principles of T’ai Chi, the more profound and mysterious it becomes. I have experienced breakthroughs in understanding and have seen many useful opportunities unfold in my life, as a direct result of my involvement with T’ai Chi. I frequently hear from students and teachers of T’ai Chi who proclaim marked improvements in physical functioning, creativity, mental clarity, emotional stability, vitality, and happiness.” Master Steven Ridley
“In the Universe there is an ever-active, ever-creative Life and an inexhaustible source of life-energy, which is made available to mankind when a fitting stage of development is reached. It is particularly significant that it has a great reverence for life. That which is unfathomable in the movement of the Yin-Yang operations is the presence of spiritual power. That which controls the motion of the Universe is absolutely One.” Professor Wen Shan Huang, Scholar and T’ai Chi Master
“An energy field and something more. An aura that at once obeys and controls. It is a nothingness that can accomplish miracles.” George Lucas, Star Wars