我的寶物在賤賣

                          My Treasures Are On Sale *

(To My First Class in America)

I was invited here to teach you the practice of taichi,

now I teach you chikung as an additional practice.

Because chikung is easier for you to learn than taichi,

And it can more rapidly raise your energy, or chi.

Taichi is no more simply a technique of self-defense,

Now It’s more for physical exercise and enlivening.

Chikung is no more only a skill of energy-enhance,

it’s also for self-healing and spiritual enlightening.

I’d like to compare this class with an analogy,

as if I am here to sell things for a better life.

All my goods are necessities of high quality,

but they are put on sale at a very low price.

You come to my shop intend to buy a shirt;

I offer to sell you also a suit, all for free.

Because the suit is more useful to you,

and the deal is most valuable to me.

       ☆       ☆       ☆

At the beginning of each day’s teaching,

to my taichi students I usually would say:

“Health to you, happiness to you, my friends,  

Let us learn the way and enjoy them as we may.”

Only when we are healthy may we be happy;

yet health can be further enhanced by happiness. 

The two are essential elements for all human race;

without them human life would be extremely hapless.

To my chikung students I would usually say

some un-familar but synonymous words every day:  

“Vigor and wisdom to you, ease and peace to you,

beauty and bliss  to you. Let us enjoy them along our way.”

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If a person is without reasonable wisdom,   

he/she cannot be a desirable character.

If a person is without necessary vigor,

she/he can only be a miserable quitter.

Vigor can make people powerful.

Wisdom can make mankind successful.

Beauty can make you happy and amiable. 

Peace can make all of us easeful and blissful.

Both the two practices and their virtues

have relative benefits and deductive effects.

They can improve human character and behavior,

can cure our personal and social silliness and sinfulness.

These practices are the precious heritage of human creations.

Their virtues are priceless treasures of heavenly natures.

Yet, they must be voluntarily learned and personally acquired,

should be rooted in all societies and spread to all nations.

Now, let us learn and practice chikung and taichi,

acquire and spread their benefits all together.

So to make us happier, healthier, wiser and wealthier;

universally easeful, peaceful, and blissful forever.

       ☆       ☆       ☆

My treasures are now here on sale!

Welcome everyone! Come to purchase from me!

You just enter and pay attention;

then you’ll have a worthy, hearty shopping spree.

Today you gain the benefits from my class,

tomorrow you shall share them with others;

so that we can spread health and happiness,

all over the world -- to everyone on earth.

Do not suppose you’ll undertake a failing business,

your capital and interest will fly away on wings; 

so that you would have to sustain your life

with northeast rain and northwest wind.

Knowledge is a strange kind of merchandise,

it can’t be over sold or completely dispensed.            

The more you sell it or hand it out,

the more it’ll feedback and remain.   

Remember, you will obtain from my lessons,

an enlivened body, enlightened mind, and exalted spirit.    

Anyone who is outfitted with such elements,

can surely live better, reach higher, even make miracles!

When you can be sowers and givers;

then you may be reapers and receivers.

As chikung and taichi’s practicers and preachers,

you’ll be wealthy as billionaires, healthy as cheerleaders. 

08/05/1993

*Whoever has the interest to learn Chikung / Taichi

Please have a visit of my website with a URL of  http://universalchitao.com.

The site was built by my limited knowledge with an old fashion software many years ago. It need a drastic revision. Unfortunately I have neither the time nor ability to do it.

Here I sincerely hope someone may voluntarily to do the work for me.

I am sure it is a worthy thing and can benefit human beings.

* Copyright open to the public.