01/08/2026
Practising Tai Chi Slowly
I borrow a moment from the hurried years,
and pay it back through breath, not tears.
The world rushes on, impatient and fast,
but I choose to flow like water, slow and vast—
never still,
never rushed.
Within this slowness,
body and time and space are fused:
the head lifts toward the sky,
held by a golden thread on high;
the feet seek out the earth below,
and the quiet ground replies, soft and slow.
The hips command the sink and rise;
the waist turns left, the waist turns right;
the hands just flow with what's within—
no forcing out, no holding in.
Forward it surges, then falls behind;
behind it surges, then falls in kind;
the edges surge, then fade to the core;
the core swells out, then seeks the shore—
one wave, and then one wave more.
Water holds no fixed form of its own,
yet the force beneath is rooted, grown;
the body turns as the moment leads,
energy and intent, two become one.
Speed conceals so much from sight;
slowness reveals it all to light—
a trace of tension held in the shoulder,
a ripple of restlessness, growing older,
and then, at last,
a balance returning, settling fast.
Each movement
is not delayed on purpose or plan,
but simply unfolds as naturally as it can;
each pause between,
half-hidden, half-seen,
is where motion and stillness lean.
Like a tree,
its rings grown wide, one year to the next;
like flowing water, rushing free,
that wears the mountain stone, perplexed.
Small changes,
gathered fold on fold,
in time become
a strength unspoken, quiet, bold.
Not until the closing of the form
do I understand, at last, what's true—
what I have practised
was never merely slowness alone;
it is, through every rise and fall,
letting body and mind,
together with Heaven and Earth, recall,
and slowly flow as one,
into a single rhythm's call.
慢練太極
我向匆忙的歲月借來一段時光，
用一呼一吸，細細償還。
世界急著向前，
我卻選擇如水緩緩而行——
不停滯，
也不匆促。
在這緩慢之中，
身體與時空交融：
頭頂青天，
一線相牽；
腳尋大地，
大地靜靜回應。
胯，隨沉隨浮；
腰，徐徐而轉；
手，只是順勢而流；
不強求，不強留。
前湧後沒，
後湧前沒；
邊湧中沒，
中湧邊沒——
一波接一波。
水無定形，
勁有來處；
身隨勢轉，
意氣同行。
快，掩蓋了許多；
慢，卻一一照見——
肩上的一絲繃緊，
心中的一縷浮動，
以及那份
漸漸回歸的平衡。
每個動作，
不是刻意遲延，
而是自然流現；
每處間隙，
若隱若現，
卻是動靜相依。
如樹木，
年輪一圈圈生長；
如流水沖沖，
山岩層層剝落。
微小的改變，
反覆疊加
終將匯成
無聲的力量。
直到收勢的那一刻，
我終於明白——
我所練的，
從來不只是慢；
而是在每一次起伏之間，
讓身與心，
與天地相牽，
漸漸流入
同一個節奏的呼喚。
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