TaiChi Phuket Center: Resources -Library

Resources

The basic works of our interest are written in verses and dialogs and in ancient Chinese, which is very different from English. Abstraction and logic are not distinguishing marks of that language, and there are very few formal or grammatical structures in it. The classical Chinese word does not stand for a single concrete idea, but it evokes associations of different ideas and things. Quite a few Chinese words can be used as nouns, adjectives and verbs at the same time. Thus sentences composed of various signs have a sort of suggestive power, evoking emotions, ideas and pictures.

It is almost impossible to render an ancient Chinese text properly in English without losing some part. Different translations of the works may appear as completely different texts. Some are very literal and helpful in the understanding of the original Chinese text, but weaker on the literary side. Others are scholarly and heavily commented; and again others are concise and poetic.

Our goal is to seek for authentically usable interpretations of the basics of our interest, gathering that together into a library. And just only the original works by purging all later inserted explanations “how to read them”. They are just for study and not to learn.

Taoist sources
Excerpts from The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine (the Neijing Suwen)~ 2400 B.C.

The Neijing is one of the most important classics of Taoism. First, it gives a holistic picture of human life. It does not separate external changes -geographic, climatic, and seasonal, for instance -from internal changes such as emotions and our responses to them. It tells how our way of life and our environment affect our health. Without going into detail, the book articulates a treasure of ancient knowledge concerning the natural way to health, implying that all phenomena of the world stimulate, tonify, subdue, or depress one’s natural life force. The authorship of the monumental classic was attributed to the great Huang Di, the Yellow Emperor, who reigned during the middle of the third century BC. The Chinese refer to themselves as the descendants of Huang Di, who is the symbol of the vital spirit of Chinese civilization.
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Lao Zu – Tao Te Ching

The Tao Te Ching was written in China roughly 2,500 years ago and is probably the most influential Chinese book of all times. It provides the basis for of Taoism. Taoism teaches that there is one undivided truth at the root of all things. The verses of the Book are written in ancient Chinese, which is very different from English. It’s classical Chinese words do not stand for a single concrete idea, but it evokes associations of different ideas and things. Lao Tzu was very old, when he rode on a water buffalo to retire in the mountains to a province in the western frontiers. There he was approached by a border official named Guan Yin Zi, who urged the master to write down his teachings so that they might be passed on. Lao Tzu then retreated into the solitude of the mountain pass, wrote the Book, whereupon he went westward and was never seen again.
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Tai Chi Phuket Center – publications

The Shaolin Life Method

The Shaolin Live Method is based on the synergic combination of the ancient oriental Taoist and Buddhist practices and methods and the most developed experiences of western live sciences. Utilizing the original sources of the thousand-year old but living experiences of the ancient East and putting them together with a well sorted set of the modern Western sciences, the Method may give a useful toolkit into the hands of the humans of our age. It may be used in order to relief the shocks and the stress, and it may bring some ideas about balancing the spirit and soul, as well.
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Accepting the force...	Sitting with a Shaolin monk...