Wish I’d listen to this 4 years ago. Sincere knowledgeable intelligent explanation of Tai Chi .We should be so thankful that there are teaches around like Adam Mizner. 🙏 Namaste

I'm only 10 min in and it's blowing my thoughts to amazing insights I would never have seen immediately. Thank you Sifu and thank you to the host. Excited to expand these idea as best as I can in life and art.

"The purpose of the form is to perfect you, it's not for you to perfect the form." 13:35

Thank to you both for taking the time to do these for us.

LOVE this! Thanks so for recording and posting! One of the best, deepest explanations of Taiji that I’ve ever seen/heard

Thank you Adam Mizner

Thank you, Adam Mizener. Please continue sharing!

Insightful as ever. Thank you for sharing. Lots to discuss in class. 🙂☯️🙏🏼

Thanks for publishing this video-interview.

This video clarified so many vital nuggets guidance for Taiji and life, I wish I had these 30 years ago :-)

Brilliant, Thanks for Sharing.

Such clear articulation of each every concept. Thank you!

I have to give a nod of appreciation and certainly admiration to the two of you. You did not shy away from any possibly difficult to answer question nor those which may bring you some negative feedback from dogmatists. Beautiful work, beautiful practice, stay well 🌱

This is very profound and insightful. Great articulate explanations to great questions. Thank you!!

Thank You Master Mizner! Your words are enlightment!

Love this. Thanks for sharing your wisdom

Thank you both. It was so beautiful talking.

Very valuable, renders one humble.

Thank you.

Glad to hear you both talk about this exciting topic, the mind and Tai Chi practice.

Excellent insights. Thank you!

Thank you for this new study tool. These are the best explanations that I have come across. Very very helpful. Love and gratitude.

Very good interview! Good questions and good answers. Thank you for this.

Great interview. Learn alot 🙏

Wonderful...thank you Sifu

Yes another one 🙌🙌🙌

Thank you Sifu again for such clear teaching. It’s amazing to find this level of accomplishment in someone of only 40 years! Much gratitude 🙏🏻

Thank u, SiFu...for your presence. I always appreciate hearing your voice, how you modulate you voice and even how your eyes are expressing and communicates everything you believe in. “The form forms us” and everything we Need is in Us, anytime, that makes everything possible, if we’re open minded.

I really enjoyed the 2 podcasts

Invaluable interview from Sifu Adam expanding our horizon of Tai Chi

What a great interview! Thank you, Adam, for taking the time to share a little bit of you with us. We appreciate it!

Thank you, Sifu!

Great teacher and practicioner, thanks for share valuable info rarely seen in Masters

This was great! I truly got a lot out of it! 😊

Thank you for clearing up some of these concepts. Sifu Mizner is a true Alchemist who has followed the path of Spiritual Alchemy. Great questions. Great Answers. It's refreshing to hear someone who has actually achieved High Levels rather than pretend. In my 43 years of training and spiritual work I've come to see the convergence of Science, Religion, Tantra, Martial Arts and Art as just the surface of the Greater Work and it's good to see someone acknowledging, what I believe, is the Direct Path vs the Spiral Path. All of things need to be Gnosis, or truly experienced, to understand. Otherwise, It's just words and semantics. Every Martial Artist should listen to this. Many Blessings to your families and meet you all in person over tea someday. Cheers.

Fantastic!

May never get to his level but something to work towards. So few teachers like this one. Brilliant. Thank You for all your teaching.

I don’t think TTC is useless as a basic mechanical form. I have seen hip arthritis massively improve and the older student able to weight bear and be almost pain free within six months of practice. She does the form and the form changes her body. She is a beginner, no awareness of Qi. But by practicing yin yang separation, correct alignments and mental clarity she heals and improves....so the Qi is moving with correct diligent TTC movement patterns. Like Sifu Mizner says, body moving the Qi.

Amazing interview, and again the amount of content and its depth are outstanding. Thanks. Adam.

Love you Adam🐲

3:37 This is SOOOOOO true. I had to practice Tai Chi for a good 3 years before I started seeing the physical benefits. It's really a lifelong commitment.

This guy is very very very valuable ..

Thanks for sharing! Have an awesome day!

Thank you ta

I enjoyed this one also and hope you continue to do more. 👍

Please make another episode! This are incredibly informative :)

Thanks Adam! I have to study Tai Chi on my own. I learned the 13 forms? - any who, everything you said was right on! I am glad you incorporated Lao; I didn't see teachers teaching Tao. As we all, we come from external at first- but through that, I got an internal injury- so I have looked at the Chi Kung, and the philosophy, because I had some unexpected deaths; But even from an Aikijujistu perspective I heard from a sensei online; you are right on about the misunderstanding that kata is what you do in the street. So thank you I am listening, but without a Sifu that is emotionally aware or stable....I have to practice the martial aspect alone....but I have touched people learning from you, others...I read in classics its about a familiar "touch"... but REALLY great video! All my books and practices are coming together and are verified through you Sifu

very well explained dear friend

A true master

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Yes!!!

Thanks for this excellent interview.

priceless thanks

Very insightful. I especially liked what you said about the purpose of form and about the basics in kung fu. I'm a Wing Tsun practitioner and as far as I understand it, you can - and you should - apply that school of thought to all kinds of kung fu in general. I also liked the clarification about song and ting. Never brought money to a bank though. Maybe I should start doing that too. Thank you very much for the upload, Sifu Adam🙏. Peace

Hopefully a 003 comes out!!

When Psychologists are using mindfulness, they’re not suggesting that it needs to be positive. The idea is that it’s okay to feel any feeling, positive or negative. There are no wrong feelings. And you use mindfulness to get in touch with whatever feeling you’re currently feeling. Mindfulness helps people to understand whatever emotion they are experiencing without judgement. There’s a saying that “You have to name it to tame it.” So mindfulness of a feeling can lead to changing that feeling to a positive feeling only after accepting that the negative state is useful and valid. It’s also totally acceptable to stay in that negative state and experience as much of it as necessary.

In Ashtanga Yoga, there is a concept that when the body moves through a prearranged pattern of movements the mind is still, therefore the mind is in a state of meditation when focussed on the breath, bandhas, and drishti point. Therefore, I think at a high level, you can go into a state of meditation while doing Tai Qi taolu, if you become completely immersed into no-mind/no-body space of the practice.

Thanks for sharing please make one about alchemy!

I appreciate and respect your explanations. Superb instruction in my humble opinion.

Nice! Around the 15 min mark, different forms are discussed. It seems to agree with "One good teacher with ten quality students teaching one form will end up teaching 11 forms".- cannot remember the source

sending love and peace to everyone...

Ten thousand things to Taiji is another way to say from the macrocosm to the microcosm. Jamjong is the old method of first training and there are variations of this method for all internal styles, Santi for xingyi and the static animal postures of baguajang. The standing is where you learn samadhi, through circulating repetition, inner looking at each structure. Begin with large structures and as your mind becomes stronger in focus reduce the size of the structure your mind is investigating. With diligent practice, in time, you will be able to complete a single circulation of the muscles in three hours or more. Once you are able to hold a single thought for a half hour you will realize a half hour isn’t enough time to accomplish anything in inner looking. Adam Mizner is amazing for explaining concepts in the concepts he has explored. Yes. There is a barrier to go from samadhi to a movement system. This is the value of a teacher who can help you progress from samadhi to movement. Samadhi is an important first step where you lead to sense, feel and determine the qualities of the energy. Determine which thoughts are our thoughts versus the thought projections of those around us which we hear without realizing.

The best as always.

Many thanks and grateful for this interview. I feel a better understanding of ting and yi, a connection to the effect of them within myself. I am grateful you share knowing some will express conflicting emotions. The bits we are ready for and can understand bring meaning and help us move forward on the path.

Great Sifu Adam Mizner, thank you so much, now my understanding of Taiji is depth clear, I hope to develop and clarify in harmony the oceans of disengagement in wich I have been sailing, now I least I see them. Thanks for all the terminology landed in the reading posibility done thanks by the ink of your awereness, you gave us a treasure. From my heart and mind thanks to the interviewer, whose name I dont know yet, but is also one chosen by the absolut by sure for a big reason.

Thank you for sharing so much great pragmatic information. Looking forward to reading Sufi’s book in the future.

I simply have not heard one person give so many spot on answers

Also, it’s helpful to think of positive and negative as nominal qualities of emotion, not as judgements on whether those states are “good” or “bad”.

3:37 Exactly!

Dear Sir Please release your material in India. We are longing to learn authentic tai chi.

41:30 Finally! The mma question..

Again .. 'The purpose of the form is to perfect you .. not to perfect the form' .. AGAIN AND AGAIN .. completely forgotten

Thank you for this talk. In one of your dhamma talks you mentioned that different spiritual paths bear different fruits, referring to new age as an invalid concept. Towards the end of this podcast it sounded as if immortality, union with god and nibbana were the same (44:50). Could you please clarify this? Can nibbana be attained by christian practice (union with god), daoist practice (immortality) or taijiquan practice alone? metta

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potential of extreme in opposition to balance in circulated momentum

I believe the same, I think form is exist to guide you on how to use the skill, doesnt mean you need to do the form all the time. Even a karate master in okinawa that coaching so many champion at karate too said, "you are not perfecting your kata (form), the important thing is the kihon (basic). If you can do the kihon, you can do any kata perfectly"

How do we submit questions for future podcasts? Here goes: if desire and ambition hinders you on the path, what is the role of vision and goals in achieving progress along the path? And what about living in the world, and wanting a career? Is suppressing desire only relevant to the path, or is it also relevant to moving forward on other life paths? How relevant is the dao for living in the world, or is embracing the dao necessarily leaving the world behind?

The world isn't necessary ready for this but thank you for sharing Sifu.

You are really good at the philosophy!! I've thought about all this, and you are right. It totally makes sense. This I have found also goes well with music performance. I'v learned a lot from tai chi ba gua and xing yi and chi gung. You can't really put words to this stuff. Its meta physical but at the same time really. I'm Australian. Where are you?

Hi Sifu, I am assuming that seated practices will increase the sea of chi as well?

Adam Mizner reminds me of Bruce Lee. One reason is he recovered from a back injury after doctors told him he wouldn't practice martial arts ever again. He also emphasise that you have to relax etc...

Have seen Adam on YT before, but didn't pick the Aussie accent until just now! Must keep an eye out for seminars here... 👁️ ☺️

whT is the internal work?

I'm curious whether there was any reason why you have chosen Yang? Have you tried other "styles"? How about Chen? Thanks

...the qualities of being there are the steps to getting there

Listen to him is taichi 🙏🏻

AS a practicioner of tai chi.........for X ....years...I kinda trust this guy....

I agree with lots but being able to receive a fast, strong punch from a skilled fighter is an extremely useful ability. If we cannot respond to the strongest yang with quality technique then we lose the martial meaning and become performance artists.

I really enjoyed your talk about the path and your wise spiritual insights. There is one question i would like to ask and hopefully you are willing to answer it in one of the next podcasts: What does the tattoo and symbols on your forearm mean? Greetings from Germany Sebbo

Can you maybe do an instructional video on striking in taiji?

Oh my god. Thank the Heavens for his differentiation between men and women a the end of his speech.

Are there two different kind of Chi (氣)? One heavier and the other one lighter. When I try to compress Chi in my dantian (丹田), the heavy one will stay in dantian, but the lighter one will spread out to fill my body.

Dear Sirs, Let me disagree from methodological point, as there are at least three levels- the horizontal on es running external, from Swtagel.Beginner, Stage two-intermiediate and Stage three- advanced, as in sports, wordlwide. The vertical level, i.e. developed with time having spent on training., starting with the the physical efforts, ending up deeper in mental devotion. Finally, anyone havering spent three decades will proove it, that their endurance went nd finaly ended mental as Master Adam Mizner puts it. He is lucky to have arrived at it sooner than the other practitioners, but, let us nost forget that Tai chi has been invented as a fighting form that with time ended as a helaing or evern spiritual asset. Congratulations to all willing to take this lond road. Good health. What I still miss hear is teaching others, throo phase like ignition, generation of chi and then moving along the meridians and in martial arts- exteding it ovnerer our body into our target. May be out of the mental frame of the Master, but not out of reality. Best regards, Paul, 67, retired instructor ofKarate, also fan of Kung-FU Japanese Karate, and European wrestling, boxing, even fencing, kendo , etc. .

Nick Osipczak uses Tai Chi to improve his MMA - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p99jYLNimZjHoYE.html

One practice

Dear Adam, are you sun in Taurus? Or maybe Taurus rising?

MMA fighters do not have the time to attain the level necessary to make tichi effective. It would be interesting to see mizner fight against a good mma guy. It would revolutionize mma. I don't see it happening unless mizner realizes how many people could be introduced to his art.

Meditation is detaching the soul from the outer world whether the body is moving or not. If meditation by definition only involves sitting does that then mean the eyes must be closed? Many saints in the past were known to be still while meditating with eyes open whether sitting or standing. One can be still inside while moving the body when moving in accordance with right action.

'Ting' is 'listening'. 'Song' is 'letting go'. Both concerns the egomind.

Dear Sifu Adam...this path is fascinating but there is only one path that leads to truth. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. I will pray you find Him.