The Art of OvercomingStrength with Gentleness, Seminar for Taijiquan and Push Hands 太极拳与推手研讨会（Please sign up on sola）
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This sharing takes Taijiquan push-hands as the central case and asks how Chinese philosophy becomes a real-time bodily technique.
In Taijiquan, strength is not overcome by direct collision. Instead, the practitioner listens, follows, redirects, and leads the opponent’s force into emptiness — until its root, support, and direction begin to fail.
The key idea is root.
Root is not only stability in the legs and feet. It is a mind-body condition: the ability to remain settled, coordinated, and responsive under gravity, movement, pressure, and contact.
This is not a combat performance.
It is not a technical training class.
It is a philosophical sharing on how Taijiquan turns Chinese thought into embodied strategy.
We’ll explore:
Overcoming strength with gentleness Yinjin luokong — leading force into emptiness
Rooting and uprooting
Push-hands as embodied dialogue
Using the mind to govern one’s own body
Using the body to disturb the opponent’s mind * Taijiquan as philosophy tested in real time
No martial arts background is required. No pressure to perform.
Just a space to understand how gentleness becomes strategy, how emptiness becomes technique, and how the body becomes a site of philosophy.