How to Learn Taiji

洪均生 Hóng Jūnshēng#’s suggested learning method: 多 duō system.

Watch

• Be totally focused on observing.
• Make the image as accurate as possible, until the hidden details come out.
• Refrain from acting.
• Only when you see it, then are you capable of acting it.

Listen

• Things that may not be demonstratable may be explainable.
• Theories may be explained with more accuracy than actions.
• Write it down. Don’t change the word.
• If you change it, you may have mutated / misinterpreted the meaning.

Ask

• When the procedure is followed, the question will be framed in the proper context / perspective.
• Based on what the teacher did, not based on you or on context you brought in from outside.
• It will be to clarify the teacher’s actions and words.

Try / Experiment

• Trying things out may give you more questions.
• As long as they are in the right framework they are not necessarily wrong.
• If they are not in the right framework they are definitely wrong.

Think

• Contemplate how everything connects.
• The principles guide you to deeper understanding.

Summary

• There is a sequence / a procedure to follow.
• Simple procedure but it is impossible for an intelligent being to follow strictly.
• But there is a lot of value of adhering to it as closely as possible.