Autumn 2020 Living Tao Tai Ji Study Series — Session Two
(October 2020)
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Playing with Circles and using the symbols of Eternal Flow 永 久 and perennial Tao Philosophy to creatively expand the Form study, revealing fresh meanings and new metaphors with the core movement forms.
The next movement series following the beginning:
Peng, Lu, Ji, An
Excerpted Poetry
Parables of the Hostages – by Louise Glück
“…What if war
is just a male version of dreaming up,
a game devised to avoid
profound spiritual question?”
Four Quartets (Little Giddings) – by T.S.Eliot
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
The Second Coming – by W.B. Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Comingis at hand.
A Sleep of Prisoners – by Christopher Fry
“…Thank God our time is now when wrong
comes up to face us everywhere
never to leave us till we take
the longest stride of soul we ever took…”
The Three Oddest Words – by Wislawa Szymborska
When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word Nothing,
I make something no non-being can hold.
I Live My Life in Growing Orbits – by Rainer Maria Rilke
“… I live my life in growing orbits
which move out over the things of the world.
Perhaps I can never achieve the last
but that will be my attempt….”