Princípios fundamentais

"Liu Pai Lin teve no Brasil um papel significativo
na vinculação do tai chi chuan ao Taoísmo.

Na medida que o número de seus estudantes cresceu,
ele decidiu dar início a um nível mais elevado de treinamento,
introduzindo o ensino do Tao Te Ching e do I Ching.

Ele quis relacionar as práticas corporais a estes textos,
assim seguiu instruindo seus alunos mais graduados
simultaneamente nas práticas de Tai Chi Chuan, Chi Kung e meditação
e nos aspectos mais teóricos, pelo estudo dos textos.

Além disto ele também dedicou-se, conforme descreve um aluno,
a divulgar “práticas simples para pessoas comuns”.
Liu considerou importante ensinar aos brasileiros
os princípios fundamentais do tai chi chuan
por acreditar que estes conceitos básicos ainda desconhecidos
seriam importantes para a saúde da população."

tradução de trecho do ensaio de Daniel Murray

"Daoism in Brazil: The Globalization of the Orthodox Unity (Zhengyi) Tradition",
Queen’s University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada - June, 2010, página 16.
(An essay submitted to the Department of Religious Studies for the degree of Master of Arts)

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"Liu also played a role in connecting taijiquan and Daoism for people in Brazil.
As his number of students grew, he decided to start another level of training,
which involved teaching the Daodejing and Yijing.

He wanted to connect the physical practices with these texts,
and continued to teach his upper level students in both the practices of taijiquan, qigong, and meditation,
and in the more theoretical side using textual study.

Although Liu was interested in combining these two sides of practice,
he also was involved in what his student describes as spreading “simple practice for simple people,”
by which he means that Liu thought it was important to teach the basics of taijiquan to Brazilians
because the concepts were so unknown
and he thought the basics are important for the people’s health."