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| The Yin of Tai-Chi: Tao, Tai-Chi & The Mysterious Female | 
 enlarge | Author: John Lash
Publisher: Vega
Category: Book
List Price: $9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 1103546
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 6.2 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1843336154
Dewey Decimal Number: 180
EAN: 9781843336150
ASIN: 1843336154
Publication Date: March 28, 2003
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Product Description
Over the past twenty years, studying the Tai-Chi has become increasingly popular in the West, yet for the vast majority of these students Tai-Chi has been reduced to a series of meaningless movements. Without a deeper understanding of the philosophy that spawned it, the Tai-Chi is incomplete, merely a series of exercises to be memorized and performed. Here you'll find a thorough discussion of Wu Chi, the Yin or female counterpart to Tai-Chi's male or physical energy, which together make up the Tao (the Way), the totality of all things. Literally translated as the "Ancient Beginning," Wu Chi relates to the spiritual in the way that Tai-Chi does the physical. Only by truly understanding and embracing this duality can one's soul be fully developed and the resulting strength, serenity, and clarity of mind woven into your daily living.
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 An enlightening discussion of balance November 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Being a woman I am sensitive to the ways that Yin is described. Too often it is about negative energy and darkness. This book discusses Yin as potential and a necessary and equal aspect of balance. With that in mind we can come to understand the ebb and flow of chi as we practice Tai Chi. We can think of Yang energy as water that can't be contained or directed without the cup that is Yin.
A terrific book October 16, 2003
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
A most amazing and challenging book. I learned a lot about love and life. Here's a little excerpt:"The Dalai Lama, the Buddha and Mahatma Ghandi are examples of those who profess Yang love. They love all human beings, everyone who exists, because we are all children of the Spiritual Force. They love each human being because each is a human being. They love Lucy because she is a human being, not because Lucy is Lucy. They love Tom because he is a human being, not because he is Tom. They do not have to know Tom or Lucy in order to love them. They love their human beingness. Yang love is a necessity, otherwise we would be cut off in our isolated little groups of families and friends. We owe much to such exponents of Yang love as Gandhi, the Dalai Lama and the Buddha.
But, there is another love, Yin or female love. This love is a love of the mother for her children. It is face to face, soul to soul, body to body, heart to heart. In Yin love, I love Lucy because she is Lucy. I know her dreams, her visions, the pain she has suffered, her strengths, her weaknesses and the beauty of her individual soul. A mother does not love her child because it is a human being but because it is her child. And it is this type of love that binds us to the here and now." This book is a total joy!
 Excellent Resource for Dao Students as Well as Tai Chi July 18, 2003
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Lash's book is helping me make sense of many ideas, frustrations and unhealed wounds that have collected over the years. This book absolutely applies to Tai Chi, and the reality of the subjective Chi experience, but also places everyday social and political encounters and challenges in a new perspective. Certainly worth picking up by anyone who's felt drawn to the Dao. I do wish Lash has spent a bit more time integrating the martial aspects of Tai Chi with the other ideas collected here. (This may be discussed in The Spirit of Tai Chi, which I've not read yet.)
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