The author of a round dozen of Pendle Hill pamphlets, Carol Murphy has written much on meditation, a process which drew her into theory and eluded her in practice. Recently she was presented with an opportunity to work in earnest on T'ai Chi Ch'uan -- the Chinese art of meditation in movement. Could she stop being the chronic spectator, the thinker about, and for once, do it? The present pamphlet tells the story.

This is a lovely pamphlet about her experience with T'ai Chi, as moving meditation. She explores the attention, the sensitivity, the gentleness, the flowing movement, the balance, the flow of energy, the relaxation, the balance and complementarity of opposites, the presentness in now, the silence and stillness of mind that are all involved in T'ai Chi. She relates T'ai Chi to sitting meditation and to being present to the flow of life. ( )

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