Long River Tai Chi Circle New York City

“What I mean by love is not an emotion. It is a state of being... It is a sense of oneness with all that is. The experience of love arises when we surrender our separateness. You don’t love another, you are another. There is no fear because there is no separation.” -Stephen Levine

“TaiChi is the crystallization of mankind’s most profound philosophical ideals.”
~Cheng Man-Ch’ing (New Method of T’aiChi Ch’uan Self-Cultivation)

In Treatise 12 of his 13 Treatises, Professor Cheng says: ”Change and the changeless is the first principle of the Thirteen Postures. Change is the continuous exchange of yin and yang, hard and soft. The Thirteen Postures mutually affect and displace one another. Everything changes. The changeless is the principle of the Thirteen Postures which constitute the stabilizing power of the central equilibrium.” (trans. Ben Lo and Martin Inn)

“If you don’t use the part of the mind that is the intuitive heart-mind, if you don’t cultivate it and use it, you’re just left in a reactive kind of puppetry. It’s only when the mind, the awareness, draws back that you have a sense of the gestalt – you see the whole thing, and then there is nothing in you pushing it away or grabbing at it." ~Ram Dass

“Your body’s sensitivity should be such that you are aware of the tiniest feather brushing against your skin. Even the mosquito finds no place to land on you without causing you to move.”
from The Taijiquan Treatise Attributed to Wang Zongyue; Waysun Liao trans.

Tai chi classics - Wikipedia The tai chi classics (Chinese: 太极拳谱; pinyin: tàijíquán pǔ or 太極拳經; tàijíquán jīng) are a collection of over 100 articles on the Chinese martial art of tai chi written by the art's master practitioners over the centuries. They cover everything from the underlying taiji philoso...

“Because he regarded wisdom as what is timely, there were things that he could not keep from doing” ~Chuang-Tzu

“Be empty, that is all. The Perfect Human uses the mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.” ~Chuang-Tzu

“From careful investigation and experience, one may gradually realize how to comprehend energy. From comprehending energy, you will attain by degrees spiritual illumination”
from The Taijiquan Treatise Attributed to Wang Zongyue; Swaim trans.

“Be still like a mountain, move as a flowing river”
from Mental Elucidation of the 13 Postures Attributed to Wu Yuxiang Swaim trans.

“Trust relaxation implicitly and practice it with devotion.”
~Cheng Man-Ch’ing (New Method of T’aiChi Ch’uan Self-Cultivation)

“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.”�― Lao-Tzu

“Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.” ~Ram Dass