The Sound of Silence: Moving with T

There are two directions of the meditating mind – a focusing down to an intense point of contemplation, or a wide-angle vision which does not so much shut out the world of the senses as mirror it clearly and love it without clinging. This latter is the meditative way that appeals to an alert and noticing mind while promising to reduce the tendency to reverie or anticipation. Of the kinds of practice that follow this way, one – a Chinese method called T’ai Chi Ch’uan, is a moving meditation that also disciplines the restless body.