Marcus Aurelius said, in Meditations, with, I assume, no knowledge of tai chi: "The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in that it stands ready for what comes and is not thrown by the unforeseen."
This is a constant tension in our practice, are we going through a form or are we practising applications?
I'm in the latter camp really, it's wonderful to read this book.
(My copy is by Penguin Classics, trans. by Martin Hammond)
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