taichiEaster

The speaker talks about Easter and its origins, mentioning that it was based on a pagan festival. They also mention the connection between the Easter Bunny and the Sacred Hare, as well as the symbolism of chocolate and lambs. The speaker criticizes the Roman Catholic Church and its history of violence. They then shift to discussing Tai Chi, explaining that it should be practiced in a gentle and soft way, especially as one gets older or if they are small or frail. They mention seeing impressive applications of soft styles, including by transgender individuals. The speaker concludes their talk. Hi everyone, I thought I'd talk a little bit about Easter, it's Easter Saturday, Jesus died yesterday, he'll be back on Monday, I'm sorry if that's a spoiler alert for some of you, but that's what happens, there's always a sequel, and he'll be back again as well as the Comforter, or the Second Coming, which is long overdue, but who knows, anything's possible. Anyway, yes, Easter, so the original Easter was based on a pagan festival, there was various forms, the Sacred Hare, H-A-R-E is where we get the connection with the Easter Bunny, and chocolate as well is to do with the New Beginnings, the lambs, all this sort of thing, all sacred to the fecundity, the goddesses that were also traditionally there in religion, until the men took over and the Pope became an authority on Roman paganism, which became the Roman Catholic Church, and enjoyed killing, well, enjoyed killing, his main thing was leading his sacred armies into battle, that happened for a long time, killing, killing, killing, not good. So, anyway, this morning I was looking at Tylee Chichwan and how gentle that is in its form, and also in its application. I see a lot of applications by people who are doing a very, very hard strength, masculine based type, it looks like nothing like the forms. What they've done is they've taken their existing skills, hard style skills, considerable martial skills, and applied it to the Tai Chi movements and done them in a hard way. But as you get older, they need to be done in a softer way, and if you're small or frail, they're done in a softer way, and if you're a kind and gentle person, which I hope most people here are, then it has this gentleness and this approach of trying not to harm the attacker, which is more difficult than it seems, but I've seen some incredible applications of very soft styles that are being used by, for example, transgender people. I saw something, I can't find it anymore. And it looks like nothing, it looks like the person isn't even being repulsed, it's so clever. So there's different ways of approaching this. Anyway, that's all from me for today. Bye now.