| It takes three lifetimes to learn an Art like Karate. | | | | themselves in the day to day operations of the |
| I heard that tall tale when I first began the martial | | | | thing. How do you peel an apple or teach a kid |
| arts, and it takes on new meaning when you | | | | or...these fingers and toes...how do they really |
| consider Taiji Quan. I mean, you do Tai Chi slow, | | | | work? And as you learn to operate each unique |
| so it's got to take longer to learn than something | | | | and individual part of the body something strange |
| like karate, so to learn Tai Chi has got to take | | | | and wondrous occurs. |
| something like thirty lifetimes, right? | | | | Strange and wondrous if you learn through the |
| Okay, I'm pulling your leg. We all know that Taiji, | | | | martial arts, for the martial arts impart the |
| because it focuses awareness, should be faster | | | | second viewpoint, the outside viewpoint. People |
| and easier to learn than one of the faster arts. | | | | doing other arts, like ballet and gymnastics, don't |
| Correct? | | | | really get this viewpoint, for those skills do not |
| The truth of the matter actually hinges on | | | | force one outside his body. Or, perhaps they do, |
| something rather interesting. To get to this | | | | but there is no measuring stick so they don't |
| interesting something we have to consider that | | | | really know that they are getting outside their |
| there are two viewpoints when it comes to Tai | | | | body. |
| Chi Chuan. There is the inside viewpoint and the | | | | But you do take residence outside your body by |
| outside viewpoint. | | | | practicing martial arts, and especially Tai Chi |
| Inside, like inside that thing you hang shirts on. The | | | | Chuan, but mostly by studying sufficient martial |
| viewpoint from inside your bony topsoil, as if you | | | | arts to learn all the viewpoints to pop you slightly |
| had to use your optical orbs, as if you were a | | | | out of that meaty runaround you are in. Then |
| meat body. Like you are not an infinite spirit living | | | | you stop growing old as drastically as the |
| inside a body. | | | | artistically challenged, and you lose this weird |
| Outside, like outside that thing you call a body. | | | | concept called reaction time, and you start picking |
| The viewpoint that has position slightly, or more | | | | up on other people's thoughts, and all sort of |
| than slightly, outside your body, as if you were a | | | | other sixth sense types of abilities. And if you |
| spirit and didn't really need those eyeball things. | | | | don't get all these abilities, maybe you are learning |
| Like you are infinite and merely leasing that | | | | a slow Taiji, that really does take three lifetimes, |
| meaty thing with all its sweaty urges. | | | | and if that is the case, Matrix Tai Chi Chuan takes |
| One does the martial arts and immerses | | | | about three months, or so it is said. |