The Outside Viewpoint Of Matrix Tai Chi Chuan

It takes three lifetimes to learn an Art like Karate

. I heard that tall tale when I first began the martial arts, and it takes on new meaning when you consider Tai Chi Chuan. I mean, you do Tai Chi slow, so it's got to take longer to learn than something like karate, so to learn Tai Chi has got to take something like thirty lifetimes, right?

Okay, I'm having fun with you. We all know that Tai Chi, because it concentrates awareness, should be faster and easier to learn than one of the faster arts. Right?

The truth of the situation actually hangs on something rather interesting. To get to this interesting something we have to understand the fact that there are two viewpoints when it comes to Tai Chi Chuan. There is the viewpoint from the inside, and the outside viewpoint.

Inside, like inside your body. The viewpoint from inside your skull, as if you had to use your eyeballs, as if you were a meat body. Like you are not an immortal spirit taking residence inside a body.

Outside, like outside that thing you put pants on. The viewpoint that has position slightly, or more than slightly, above your cranium, as if you were a spirit and didn't really need those eyeball things. Like you are infinite and merely walking around in that meaty thing with all its sweaty urges.

One learns Tai Chi and immerses themselves in the day to day business of the thing. How do you peel a grape or teach a child to walk or...these fingers and toes...how do they really work? And as you learn to operate each odd and wonderful part of the body something strange and fantastic occurs.

Strange and wondrous if you learn through the martial arts, for the martial arts impart the second viewpoint, the outside viewpoint. People doing other arts, like ballet and gymnastics, don't really get this viewpoint, for those skills do not force one outside his body. Or, perhaps they do, but there is no measuring stick so they don't really know that they are getting outside their body.

But you do move outside your body by practicing martial arts, and especially an art like Tai Chi Chuan, but mostly by studying sufficient martial arts to learn all the viewpoints to pop you slightly out of that meaty runaround you are in. Then you stop growing old as drastically as the artistically challenged, and you put aside this odd lie called reaction time, and you start picking up on other people's thoughts, and all sort of other sixth sense types of abilities. And if you don't achieve all these things, maybe you are learning a slow Tai Chi, that really does take three lifetimes, and if that is the case, Matrix Tai Chi Chuan takes about three months, or so it is said.

by: Al Case

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