In "The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi" one of the statements is "This book is audacious". I would agree. Where I disagree is with the author's "audacious" statement that Yin and Yang are "cosmological notions". This smacks of having a kind of "belief in the right mental state of mind as the precursor which makes almost any movement a Tai Chi movement. The result of that has given us an unbelievable number of Tai Chi varieties.
Stephen Hwa's teacher Yeung Wabu said that his own teacher Wu Chien Chuan told him: "Every movement in Tai Chi Form has to have two complementary parts of the body, a moving part (called the yang part) and a stationary part (called yin part). When the yin-yang junction is located in the torso of the body, it is an internal move. When it is outside of the torso, it is an external move."
I won't go into the health or martial benefits of disregarding those previous discussed "right mental state" notions at this point. I will simply say that Yin and Yang are indeed an "...ology", not a "cosmology" but a "methodology". As my own teacher says in "Uncovering the Treasure": One (contribution) is that this statement by my teacher Yeung Wabu is the key to a methodology that enables Tai Chi practitioners to mobilize the powerful core of the body for Tai Chi movements, to generate internal energy and internal energy circulation in the body.
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