Yielding will overcome anything superior to itself; its strength is boundless. The yielding will has a reposeful ease, soft as downy feathers — a quietude, a shrinking from action, an appearance of inability to do (the heart is humble, but the work is forceful). Placidly free from anxiety one acts in harmony with the opponent’s strength. One does not move ahead but responds to the fitting influence.

Jin should be rooted in the feet, generated though the legs, directed by the waist, and expressed through the fingers.

El Jin debe estar enraizado en los pies, generado a través de las piernas, dirigido por la cintura y expresado a través de los dedos.

Zhang Sanfeng
Taijiquan Jing

El Taichí no tiene brazos y solo una pierna

Tai Chi has no arms and only one leg

Ben lo

Si uno se acerca al estudio de este arte sin perseverancia, emerge con las manos vacías de una montaña de tesoros.

If one approaches the study of this art without perseverance one emerges empty-handed from a mountain of treasures.

Professor Cheng Man-Ching

To learn Tai Chi Chuan, it is first necesary to learn to invest in loss.

Para aprender Tai Chi Chuan primero es necesario aprender a invertir en perdidas.

Cheng Man Ching
Cheng Tzu's Thirteen Treatises on T'ai Chi Ch'uan
(Teatrise One: Explanation of the Name and Definition.pg.22)

1. The head should be uprigth so the spirit can reach the headtop
2. Sink the chest and pluck up the back
3. Relax the waist
4. Differentiate insustantial and substantial (separate ying and yang)
5. Sink the shoulders and elbows (heavy elbows)
6. Use mind and not force
7. Upper and lower mutually follow
8. Inside and outside coordinate
9. It is mutually joined and unbroken (like a great river rolling on unceasingly
10. Seek stillness in movement

The infant's body is pure yang. Being pure yang it has marvelous ch'i. When the ch'i is marvelous, then the blood is full. When the blood is full, then the vessels are supple. Supple blood vessels are unique to infants. A person who is close to death but still hopes to return to being a child can accomplish this only by developing the ch'i to become supple. To save ourselves in the midst of crashing waves and to regain life requires "Water and Fire After Completion.

If the yung chuan (bubbling well) has not root and the waist has not commander, studying hard till death will be of not help

Si el yung chuan (pozo burbujeante) no enraíza y la cintura no tiene comandante, estudiar duro hasta que morir no será de ayuda

Be as still as a mountain, move like a great river.

Sé tan quieto como una montaña, muévete como un gran río.

Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo, Martin Inn, Susan Foe, Robert Amacker
The Essence of T'ai Chi Ch'uan: The Literary Tradition

Let the postures be without breaks or holes, hollows or projections.

Deja que las posturas sean sin rupturas o agujeros, huecos o proyecciones.

Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo, Martin Inn, Susan Foe, Robert Amacker
The Essence of T'ai Chi Ch'uan: The Literary Tradition

"The difference between yoga and taichi", he once said. "Is that even if you get it studying yoga, there´s nothing you can do if someone tries to knock you off your cushion".

"La diferencia entre yoga y taichi", dijo una vez. "Es que incluso si lo tienes estudiando yoga, no hay nada que puedas hacer si alguien intenta tirarte de tu cojín".

No pain, no gain.

Sin dolor, no hay avance.

Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo

Ser empujado no es ser derrotado. La derrota es abandonar los principios.

Getting pushed is not the defeat. The defeat is in abandoning principle.

Wolfe Lowenthal

Un creciente cuerpo de evidencia apoya la hipótesis de que el taichi chuan (TCQ) puede ser beneficioso para la salud psicológica, incluido el manejo y la prevención de la depresión y la ansiedad. Aunque se han identificado una variedad de factores causales como mediadores potenciales de tales beneficios para la salud, la postura física, a pesar de su prominencia visible, ha sido pasada por alto en gran parte.

El camino - y el camino de Taichi también - no conduce a la Paz. La Paz es el camino

The way- and the way of Taichi too - does not lead to Peace, Peace is the way

Wolfe Lowenthal
Taichi Thoughts Internet Journal
(boletín electrónico )

La excusa de que un hecho injusto en el mundo tenga que producir unas conductas injustas en el individuo es, únicamente eso, una excusa.

The excuse that an unfair act in the world has to produce unfair behavior in the individual is, just that, an excuse.

Wolfe Lowenthal

Concentrar la mente y respirar suavemente como un niño .... Galopar libremente con suavidad extrema la extrema dureza del mundo.

Concentrate the mind and breathe softly as a child .... Ride freely with extreme softness the extreme hardness of the world.

Lao Tse

When you practice the form try to remember : all parts either move together or rest together, support your entire body upon a single leg. Let your waist guide your movements. Every part of your body must follow your waist, from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head - even your vision. "Do not move your hands" means to not move your hands or feet independent of the waist.