陈中华老师2018年美国爱荷华讲座英文版。
讲解: 陈中华   片长: 12 分钟   语言:英文   年代: 2018  难度:1/5  地点:美国爱荷华州

视频文字转换、中文翻译：王书帆（美国）

Ok, so keep talking.
So this demarcation point from here…
it’s… a little bit lower, I’m too short. So this sets the demarcation. When Lou pushes me here, I regard this line here as the demarcation. So everything on my side here cannot go towards him, it has to go backward. backward towards my rear foot. Only in front here… this is another demarcation, so this line is very thick… this stick where he’s holding me… This part can go forward. Can you see when I do that, it sends tension to his back.

This goes backward. So I created a larger split here. In the end, I increase it in…with here. So if I send this here, this is called a push. I’m pushing him. If I am deficient, I’m going back and did not go forward, that’s a loss of energy. We can not… Push is called a jam. So we cannot jam, we cannot lose. So lock him with this one here, and this one goes forward, this backward, the power is how much you can generate in the void. Not there, not here, add here.

So this one here must go forward, this one here must go backward, with…in between there, there’s a demarcation, your power must be proportional like that. In reality, you do this you’ll fall down. So what you do is, this one aims your opponent… usually the hand is lower… aims towards your opponent’s chest, so it slightly goes like that. And this one here if it goes back, you also will fall down. it goes slightly towards the floor. So you have this shape. So that’s what we try to do. And don’t turn. All the turning is allowed, as long as you don’t turn. So, let me explain what that means.
So this is your demarcation. We do it larger for you to see. Are we still there? I’ll wait… are you recording? Yeah…it’s…
So now, I draw this little box, we consider this the contacting point. I drew it larger so you actually can see. It’s a dot, invisible, on your body. So when you’re being touched, the front… so I’m standing here… the front of you, assuming your hand is fairly low, should go like this. Aiming at your opponent’s chest area, on the centerline somewhere here. And, depending on the situation, you can also draw something like this.

Depends on how you perceive that artistic rendition. Towards either here, throat, nose, this line here. And over here… so that’s why I draw a box… so whatever you do here to justify the connection here… but we within here, you connected inside here. and over here… and if I do this one here… it goes to your foot.
So, if that one is like that to make it more like a Taiji like, it goes like this. So this one slopes… again, too many curves here… Slopes forward to touch your opponent’s center on the chest. This one pushes downward to your rear foot. And we think, visually and physically, we think this one is fairly easy, this one’s difficult. in reality, this one is very difficult, this one is very very difficult. Because you have to send your energy up, but you cannot… so this here I… the arrows I drew, it means your energy has to move, but it cannot move.

It means it cannot move off that line, and that’s a tremendous job. To send the energy requires one action, it requires one million actions to ensure it does not fall off that trajectory. So moving backward, again, is very easy, towards your rear foot. To ensure that line is not broken, will take… I don’t know how many million, but in reality is 10 – 15 years of work. So the first 3 years, you can do this right. And the second 3 years reaching to 6-7 year mark, you can do a little bit of this here. To do it clearly, like, I’m not even there. That has to be a clear path you feel, a rod that moves but does not move. Like a train inside you, going like this.

Like that, hitting your opponent and the floor at the same time. so this is the job of that move. It’s not a particular movement, it’s not a technique, this is called a… an action concept. It’s a concept about particular types of action. And then little things of finger going here there, those are called… and these belongs to… techniques. And this is a concept. so so this is number 3, this is the second type. The first the type is always a principal. The principal is subdivided into bigger ones, Universal ones, sections, and smaller ones.

So you might have smaller principles we would say a rule. So roughly these are the three layers of things we do. So all of these are Under the biggest the principle which is everything has to be divided into Yin and Yang. So when you look at a technique, you look at a concept, they must… the actions described there must result in whatever you’re doing divided into yin and yang.

If your particular action does not do that, then it is not a part of Taiji. And it is allowed that you don’t see why it is a yin yang separation. Until 5 -10 years later you realize oh okay, at that point I did not understand it. But… so it’s okay not to understand it, but it’s not ok that in the future, after 30 years you realize that action has no yin yang in it. And how do we know? Because we cannot predict the future, remember? last night, it says future is an illusion, past is a delusion. What do we do?

We have very small things to verify, to tell you. Things you… you cannot say for sure is wrong…because… What’s your name? (Jan) Jan, you know for sure it’s wrong when I call you Jackie. So when you’re not sure, but you don’t think it’s right, those could be that you will know later. I when I say sure, it means sure. Now, when I say sure it means sure, there are two ways.
1 is you are sure, 2 is you are sure because you are sure. The 1st ones you are sure based on the second level certainty. 2nd level, two layers. First one is first layer, you, at this stage, I assume your parents already passed away. (yes) So if that’s the case, the fact that your name is Jan is 1st level. For you, there is no more change. But if your parents are still alive, one day they might say: in reality, we named you Jackie. But a fortune teller said Jackie is not good for you, we have to call you Jan. But in our mind, we give birth to Jackie.

So there is no more possibility, so this is the 1st level certainty. 2nd level certainty is… what is her name? You are pretty sure, 100%, but that certainly is in your head, not in her head. You know for sure her name is Jan. So you know for sure, but we might run into her, and with a picture, and say: you look like the person in that picture, what’s your name? You might say, Jackie. So, we, at the very beginning must be 1st level. And if it’s the 2nd level, don’t learn it yet. Do you understand? You have…it’s..it’s.. you know it’s like I already told you don’t go to not to go to a bar, that’s 1st level. But 2nd level means your friend says but last time we went to a bar with Master Chen. And there are 3 of them telling you that. And you said, well…

好, 继续说。

所以这个界线从这边…

你下去一点，我比较矮。所以这定下了界线，当Lou推我这里的时候，我把这条线当作界线。我这边的任何东西都不能往他那边去，而是要往后，向我的后脚去。只有前面的…这是界线的另一边，所以这条界线很粗，有这么粗，就是他抓我的地方。这里可以向前走，你看我这样的时候力会到他背后。这向后走，这样我作了一个很大的对开，最后我从这里加上。如果我用这里的话这是推，我在推你。如果我跑了，向后退没向前，那就失了力。推是顶，不能顶，不能丢。所以我们用这把他锁住，然后这向前，这向后，力是看你能在空中开出来多少。

不在那边也不在这边，而是在这里加上。所以这个要向前，这个要向后，这中间是界线，你的力需要这样对称。但实际上你这样就会倒，所以这个向对手去…通常手会比较低，向对手胸口去，所以微微的这样走。这个如果向后走，你也会倒，所以它微微的向地上去。就呈现这样的形状。这就是我们要作的。然后别转，只要你不转，所有的旋转都是可以的。我来解释一下是什么意思。

这是界线，我画大一点给你看…还在录吗? 我等你…还在录吗? 好，我画这个方块是接触点，我画大一点你才能看得到，这是一个点，在你身上，看不到的。当你被碰到的时候，前面…我站在这里，你的前面，假设你的手比较低，应该这样走..向对手的胸口，在中线的这附近。看情况你也可以这样画，看你怎么看。向这里，喉，鼻，这条线。然后这里，这就是为什么我画个方块，这中间你想办法对上。

这样从这里，到这里想办法连起来，然后从这里..如果我这样，就向脚去了。所以如果那条线是这样，这样画就比较像个太极。这里向上斜..这里可能弯太多..向上斜去碰对方胸口的中线，这里向下推到脚。我们觉的这个还算简单，这个很难，但实际上这个很难，这个非常，非常难。因为你需要把力向上送，但你不能..我画的这些箭头表示你的力需要动，但它不能动，意思是它不能偏离这条线，这是个大工程，把力送出去只要一个动作，但你需要一百万个动作来确保它不偏离轨道。

而向后，向后脚移也是很简单，但要保证这条线不断，我不知道要几百万个动作，但反正实际上是十到十五年的功。前三年你能作到这个，后三年，练了六七年的时候你可以稍微作到这个，而要作得很好，我也还没作到。这需要是一个清楚的通道，你要感觉有根棍可以动，但又不动，像有个火车在你身体里这样跑，同时打到对手和地面。这就是这个动作要作的。

这不是某个动作，也不是一个技巧，这个叫作…一个动作的概念。是关于一种类型的动作的概念。而一些小动作比如手指这样走，那些是叫作…而这个是包含在技巧里面..然后这个是概念。所以这个是3，这个是第2种，第1种永远都是原则。原则可以细分成大项的，通则，各项目的原则，和其他小项的。所以一些小项的原则，我们叫规矩。所以大致上这是我们练拳的三个层次，所有的东西都在大原则之下，也就是所有东西都需要分阴阳。所以当你看一个技巧，一个概念的时候，它所叙述的动作必须要能分出阴阳。如果你作得这个动作不能，那这就不是太极。

你可以不懂为什么这是分阴阳，等五年十年之后你发现，喔，那时候我不懂。所以你不懂是可以的。但如果你30年之后发现这动作没有阴阳，那是不行的。但我们怎么知道呢? 因为我们无法预测未来，记得昨晚说的吗? 未来是幻觉，过去是妄想。那我们怎么作? 我们只有很少的方法去确定…你没办法确定是不是正确的东西…因为…你的名字是什么?(珍)珍，你确定当我叫你杰克的时候是错的。(是)所以当你不确定，但你觉得可能不对的时候，可能你以后会知道。当我说确定，就是确定。我说确定就是确定，有两种可能，一是你确定，一是你确定因为你确定。

第一种是你间接确定，间接，隔一层的。直接是第一层的。在这个年纪我认为你的父母以经过世了。(是)如果是这样的话，你的名字是珍就是直接的确定。对你而言它不会变了。但如果你父母还在世，有一天他们可能会说，其实我们原来要给你取名作杰克的，但有个算命的说杰克对你不好，所以我们叫你珍，但在我们的心里我们生的是杰克。你是没可能了，所以这就是直接确定。间接确定是，她的名字叫什么?你很确定，百分之百，但这是你想的，不是她想的。

你非常确定她的名字是珍，你很确定。但我们可能会手上拿着照片问她，你长得很像照片上这个人，你的名字是什么?你可能会说，是杰克。所以我们在一开始得要是直接确定，如果是间接，那先别学。你懂吗，这就像…我已经跟你说别去酒吧了，这是直接的。间接的就是，你的朋友说，但是上次我们跟陈老师一起去过酒吧。有三个朋友都这样说。你想，…..