How to square that circle? With taiji a seminal source is the Tao De Jing:
Chapter 5
"Heaven and Earth are not kind
The ten thousand things are like straw dogs to them.
The sages are not kind
People are like straw dogs to them.
Yet heaven and earth and all the spaces inbetween
Are like bellows, empty yet inexhaustable
Always producing more."
(transl by Addiss. 1993)
These ideas were later refined by the founder of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba:
Art of Peace # 22
"The penetrating brilliance of swords
Wielded by followers of the Way
Strikes at the evil enemy
Lurking deep within
Their own souls and bodies"
(excerpted by W. McLuskie from The Art of Peace a collection of quotes by M. Ueshiba transl. by J. Stevens)
To be guided by the Tao, the Heart must be calm. To calm the Heart, the emotions must be still. To still the emotions, the body must be relaxed.
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