Chen Style Sword - 49 Form [seite]

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Chen Style Sword - 49 Form [seis]

...  *  Slant Flying  *  The Left Side Holds Up A 1000 Lbs  *  The Right Side Holds Up A 1000 Lbs  *  The Swallow Pecks The Soil  *  The White Ape Offers Fruit  *  The Falling Flowers  *  Thrust Slantwise Up And Down  *  Slant Flying  *  ...

Chen Style Sword - 49 Form

entrenamiento

solsticio de invierno lunar eclipse

This winter solstice was 'brightened' by a Lunar Eclipse. Apparently the first such for about 2000 years.

Chen Style Sword - 49 Form [cuatro]

Pluck the Stars and Change the Constellations * Scoop Up the Moon from the Bottom of the Sea * The Immortal Points the Way * The Phoenix Nods Its Head * The Swallow Pecks the Soil * The White Snake spits out Its Tongue

Chen Style Sword - 49 Form [tres]

* The Black Bear Rolls Over Its Back * The Swallow Pecks the Soil * The White Snake spits out Its Tongue * Slant Flying * The Eagle and the Bear Vie with Their Wits * The Swallow Pecks the Soil

Chen Style Sword - 49 form [dos]

* nod the head * pull the grass in search of the snake * the golden cock stands alone * the immortal points the way * cover and block * the ancient tree entwines the roots * the hungry tiger attacks the food * the blue dragon sways its tail * the wild horse leaps over the brook * the white snake thrusts its tongue * the black dragon sways its tail * Zhong Kwei wields the sword * the Arahat subdues the dragon

Chen Style Sword - 49 form [uno]

preparatory form * opening posture * homage to the sun * the immortal points the way * the blue dragon comes out of the water * protect the knees * close the door * turn around and chop downwards * the blue dragon turns over *xie fei shi - slant flying * spread the wings

Happy Chinese New Year, Spring Festival, Lunar New Year

Here we are looking forward to restarted growth, renewed energy, positive thinking,
looking the tiger in the mouth: I keep reminding myself that "It is not enough to begin
doing something. You have also to persevere, until you finish doing it."

So, keeping up the practice ...

Once In A Blue Moon,

you get to visit a place you wanted to visit for a while back and it's surprisingly different in some respect to what you expected: Collioure at the winter solstice for example.

Once In A Blue Moon ,

you may walk by the willows and enjoy

Once In A Blue Moon,

I appear here, 3 yellow willows surviving the new works, a white anteroom is painted afresh and pictures hung, some old, some new. Plans are crystallising for next trip, our first to Venice.

It's a grand day when you ...

paint a picture

help a friend

sink and relax

practise forms and ba juan jin

replant your rosemarys to roomier, classier pots

Seeing Colour

Our colour vision developed a long time ago to enable our ancestors to identify the newer shoots. Two books, "The Making of the Fittest", By Sean B Carroll and Neil Shubin's "Your Inner Fish", both of which I read with much interest last year, make this point.

My next photo is showing an exerpt from the former, which interest me as one of the 8% mentioned, having difficulty with reds and greens, but not always. However, I'd probably fail on a navigation test!

At 8 pm

al aire libre, de nuevo

A walk in the aroma of "coconut"

"a magic dwells in each new beginning" - HH

Zen proverb: Enlightenment

"Before Enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After Enlightenment: chop wood, carry water." So straight-forward, so simple.

Zee

"I do like to be beside the seaside,
Oh, I do like to be beside the sea ...", I was humming to myself the other day, walking on the beach, when I came across these lines in the sand:

The moon, at this point, was ebbing the tide, and so the interface had moved away from where the child(?) had drawn the pointer.