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conversations.value: Give me a description for a story titled T'ai Chi Classics about T'ai, Chi, Presents with the genre: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Exercise & Fitness.
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conversations.value: Presents the inner meaning and techniques of T'ai Chi movements through translations of three essential texts which together are often considered the "T'ai Chi Bible." Includes practical instructions and illustrations for the entire sequence of movements
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conversations.value: Give me the first three paragraphs for this story.
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conversations.value: T'ai Chi Classics
  It is believed that this classical T'ai Chi treatise was written by Master Wong Chung-yua, who was the master of Ch'en Chang-hsing, the originator of the Yang system.
  Neither Yin, the negative, nor Yang, the positive, can exist independently. When these equal-but-opposite energies separate, the T'ai Chi is in motion. When they unite, the T'ai Chi is in stillness.
  According to modern knowledge, everything is fundamentally constructed from atoms. To manifest in material existence these atoms must combine negative and positive powers in order to balance opposing energies. This forms a stability so that matter can exist.
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conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.. Start with the sentence 'Around 1200 C'.
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conversations.value: Around 1200 C.E., the T'ai Chi theory was described in the I as a way of discipline and meditation for human life. At that time, success in developing internal energy through Taoist meditation formed the basis for the T'ai Chi Meditative Movement. This movement consisted of the thirteen original meditative postures, as described in chapter 4.
  Over hundreds of years of development and through many varying approaches to the study process, students came to reverse the proper procedure. In search of an "easier" approach, students began to copy the movements without practicing meditation or internal energy development.
  Therefore, around 1850 C.E., Master Wu Yu-hsiang wrote a treatise advising students that to practice T'ai Chi properly, one must drive the internal energy to move the entire body, instead of just copying the T'ai Chi Movement and trying to develop the internal energy afterward. He also advised that one should make certain that the internal energy circulates through the body smoothly and completely, so that it will guide the body to perform the T'ai Chi Meditative Movement gracefully and effortlessly. After developing internal energy, the practitioner can guide the movement in any direction at will.
  In addition to internal energy development, an important factor affecting the practice and progress of one's T'ai Chi study is the discipline of the essence and spirit. According to Master Wu, your essence and spirit must be raised so that your T'ai Chi movements will be able to flow freely, without being slow and awkward. This refers to using imaging power to direct these two energies, an awareness of which should develop through practice. In other words, extend and suspend the crown point, and relax the neck. These physical movements of the external body will assist in raising the essence and spirit.
  Extending and suspending the crown point is the proper way to train and to raise your essence and spirit. In T'ai Chi practice, you must always bear this in mind.
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conversations.value: Give me the last three paragraphs.. End with the sentence ' The series of movements shown in this chapter is based on the 37 movements of Master Cheng with the addition of some of the important movements left out of the original 108.'.
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conversations.value: This is a footnote added to explain the relationship between the body and the mind, as well as between internal energy and movement.
  Here the analogy indicates that you should keep your internal power in well-balanced and constant motion, like the spinning of a wheel. Your waist controls the amount and distribution of your internal energy, as if it were the axle of a wheel.
  The basic T'ai Chi Form had eight forms and five postures, for a total of 13 movements. The Yang and Ch'en families evolved the Form to include approximately 108 movements. In the 1940s Master Cheng Man-ch'ing felt that modern society could not afford the time to perform and practice the entire set of 108 movements, and he shortened and combined the Form into 37 movements. The series of movements shown in this chapter is based on the 37 movements of Master Cheng with the addition of some of the important movements left out of the original 108.