Tao of Life Tele Study

This month’s selection is from Peter Stege.
Chapters: 7, 22, 36, 41,43,45,76 and 78
 

In Harmony Tai Chi, the names of each movement are associated with a particular teaching from the Tao Teh Ching.
There are two questions that recently came up at a Harmony Tai Chi retreat.
I am requesting Dr. Dao’s input on these questions:
1.)     How did Omni intend for these names to be applied to the practice of Harmony Tai Chi?  An example would be Move Without Exhaustion (Cloud Hands) Ch. 7.
 
2.)  Some passages are more difficult to understand than others because to most people they sound like paradox. Please offer your insight.

• The Great Fullness Seems Empty (White Crane Spreads Wings) Ch.41,45

•  The Greatly Skilled Seems Clumsy (Playing the Lute) Ch. 41,45

• To Be Curled is to Be Straight (Fist Under Elbow) Ch. 22,45

• To Progress in Tao Seems Like Regressing (Repulse Monkey) Ch. 41

• To Shrink is to Stretch Out (Needle at Sea Bottom) Ch. 36

• Soft Overcomes the Hard (Shoulder Strikes) Ch. 43,76,78

 
For the Study Group, please read the Tao Teh Ching chapters listed after the names of the movements listed above.