Tai Chi-A Way of Centering & I Ching

'Gia-fu Feng is not writing about the old Chinese way of life: he represents it; he is it...'-Alan W. Watts

Tai Chi A Way of Centering-Meditation in movement, a philosphical system, a set of principles of self-defense, a prophylaxis against diesease, and exquisite dance. It corrects your posture and

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enhances relaxation. It energizes your body and tranquilizes your spirit. It is a bridge between Eastern meditation and Western psychotherapy, integrating mind and senses. The effortless effort of its movements leads to the action of non-action and the ancient message of the I Ching.

I Ching Oracle Imagery-A guide to the future, older than the Bible or the Koran, containing within its 64 hexagrams all of life's possible happenings. It is a way of determining fate and character, an analysis of subconscous imagery, a cosmological treatise, a handbook of administration. Once its interpretation is mastered and the casting of the oracle understood, the infinite varieties of the future are revealed.

Gia-fu Feng, born and educated in China, now teaches and meditates at the Esalen Institute in Big Suf, California. Jerome Kirk of the University of California participated in this popular translation of the I Ching, and Hugh Wilkerson, one of the West Coast's finest photographers, added his superb photographs to Feng's brushwork calligraphy in illustration of tai chi.

Contents

Forewords
Prefatory note
I ching Editor's note
I The 'Eighth wing' The essay on the trigrams (shou kua)
II Notes on casting and terms
Table of contents: The I Ching
1 Strength
2 Submission
3 A difficult stage
4 Immaturity
5 Waiting
6 Contention
7 The army
8 Maintaining unity
9 Small husbandry
10 Stepping
11 Thriving
12 Stagnation
13 Brotherhood
14 Affluence
15 Humility
16 Satisfaction
17 Following
18 Festering
19 Going there
20 Looking
21 Biting through
22 Refinement
23 Splitting apart
24 Returing
25 Here and now
26 Great husbandry
27 Jaws
28 Too big
29 The pit
30 Clinging beauty
31 Inducing movement
32 The constant
33 Getting away
34 Great power
35 Advancing
36 Injured brilliance
37 The family
38 Dissensus
39 The stumbling block
40 Loosening
41 Subtraction
42 Addition
43 Resolution
44 Chance encoiunter
45 Creating unity
46 Climbing up
47 Getting stuck
48 The well
49 Revolution
50 The sacrificial caldron
51 The blast
52 Holding the center
53 Gradually
54 Marrying off little sister
55 Lusness
56 The stranger
57 Flexibiilty
58 Pleasure
59 Vaporizing
60 Restraint
61 Inward charisma
62 Too small
63 Already done
64 Not yet done
Tai chi chuan
Basic steps-Empty step; Arrow step; Sweeping step; Ball-holding position
1 Opening position
2 Wild horse ruffling mane
3 White crane flapping wings
4 Brush knee twist step
5 Hands plucking pipa (lute)
6 Step back and repulse monkey
7 Left hand grasping sparrow's tail
8 Right hand grasping sparrow's tail
9 Single whip
10 Cloud
11 Single whip
12 High patting horse
13 Right frog kick
14 Twin peaks piercing ears
15 Turn body left frog kick
16 Left creeping snake (and golden rooster standing on one leg)
17 Right creeping snake (and golden rooster standing on one leg)
18 Jade maiden threading shuttle
19 Needle at the bottom of the sea
20 Fanningout arms
21 Turn body, deflect, parry and punch
22 As is closing door
23 Crossing hands
24 Closing position

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