List of Illustrations and Tables
Foreword by Robert Cummings Neville
Preface
Introductory Note: As a Beginning Experience
Classified Chapters
I. THE CENTERED MIND
1. The Mind Must be Willing
2. The Mind-Body Connection
3 Mind-Alert
4. The Unifying Principles
5. What Gives a System Validity?
II. THE TANGIBLE SPIRIT
1. The Moving Spirit
2. The Eloquence of Silence
3. With an Air of Innocence
4. Spontaneity: The Look of Ease
5. The Student Is Forever; Learning Is Forever
6. The Ending Is a New Beginning
III. THE EVER-PRESENT SUBSTANCE
1. Landscape of the Self in Action
2. The Long Journey
3. The Harmonious Anatomy
4. What Is the Nature of "Soft"?
5. The Integrated Exercise
6. A Glimmer of Insight into the Substance of T'ai-Chi Ch'uan
IV. THE BALANCED SCALE OF STRUCTURE
1. A Miracle of Movement
2. The Constant Curve: The Circle and the Wave
3. The Historically Accurate T'ai-Chi Circle
4. The Landscape of the Self in Spirit
5. Finding the Straight in the Curved
6. Form and Transition: Dual Themes in T'ai-Chi Ch'uan Structure
V. THE ORGANIC FLOW OF PHYSIOLOGY
1. How Slow is Slow?
2. The Life of the Hand: Its Significance in T'ai-Chi Ch'uan
3. The Presence of the Eyes in the Action of T'ai-Chi Ch'uan
4. The Quiet Control of the Head
5. Some Distinguishing Features of the Wu and Yang Styles
6. The Exercise-Art as It Functions Creatively for the Actor
VI. THE INTRINSIC LOGIC OF PHILOSOPHY
1. A Harmony of Change
2. The Spirit of Adventure in T'ai-Chi Ch'uan
3. Two Portraits of the Exercise-Art of T'ai-Chi Ch'uan
1. As the Viewer Sees T'ai-Chi Ch'uan
2. As the Player Lives T'ai-Chi Ch'uan
4. A Refreshing Technique: Action and Thought
5. Perspective on My Experience with the Art of Classical Chinese Theater (Opera)
6. Inherent Qualities: Form, Grace, Stability
VII. THE STEADY FRAME OF HISTORY
1. Chinese Exercise Techniques: Kung Fu and T'ai-Chi Ch'uan
2. From Youth to Old Age
3. The Art of Wu Shu: Innovations are Changing Traditional Exercises
4. Chinese Exercise-Arts from Antiquity to the Present
VIII. CAUTIONARY COMMENTS
1. On the Necessity of Never Omitting Ch'uan in T'ai-Chi Ch'uan
2. Is T'ai-Chi Ch'uan "Martial ?"
3. On Martial Art "Experts"
4. A Letter on the Subject of Music
5. T'ai-Chi Ch'uan Is Not Moving Meditation
6. On the Spirit in Teaching
7. Street Scene at Dawn: People Exercising
8. On the Abridged Version of T'ai-Chi Ch'uan
9. On Traditional Clothing for Practice
IX. LIGHT VERSE ON SERIOUS THEMES
1. Images of Equanimity
2. The Spirit of the Way in T'ai-Chi and the Ch'uan
3. The Nine Elements: A Trinity of Threes in the Structure of T'ai-Chi Ch'uan
4. A Three-Way Conversation
Mind Speaks Its Mind
Emotion States Its Feelings
The Body Expresses Itself
5. Ch'i Explains Its Presence: Objectively
6. Aspects of Self-Awareness
7. The Way of T'ai-Chi Ch'uan
Thoughtless Thoughts
Instant Space
One over Two
The Nowness of the Now
8. The Essential Quality
9. A Message on Non-Violence to the Northeast Wind (The Yin and Yang of It)
10. The Opposites Balance in the Chinese Theater
11. A Friendly Way
X. THE EXPANDING SCOPE OF AWARENESS
1. The Art of the Science of T'ai-Chi Ch'uan
2. The Promise of Things to Come
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Index
