The Essence of T’AI CHICH’UAN The Literary Tradition(Translated and ed. by BenjaminPang Jeng Lo et alia)
My copy is falling apart;frontispiece with Chinese writing,Preface, Introduction no longerattached to the spine.
The soul of the book survives,in calligraphy and esoteric wisdom.“Be still as a mountain,” wrote Wu Yu-hsiang.“Move like a great river.”
“Move like a cat,” he wrote,but when I gently turn a page to read,it detaches. “In discontinuity,” he wrote,“there is still continuity.”
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