The Tao Teh-Ching suggest: "Govern a country as you would cook a fish. Gently!

This 'open and on-line free home study course' simply records and transmits the 'in the flesh' activities of a group that meet here with me at the house of taichido, Southampton, GB, on Wednesday evenings; therefore this course began when 'the group' did, two weeks ago on 15th. Aug '01.

The lack of patience and our unstoppable urge to achieve are the the most destructive pollutants that we bring to add to natural purity of the Long Yang Form, and it is not my job to assist in this corruption. My job is to not only teach 'new' postures, it is equally important (especially at this [advanced] level) that I encourage 'correct attitude'. This 'attitude' may be surmised as "not-grasping" ... for anything, and this includes knowledge, serenity, and enlightenment itself. Grasping for 'enlightenment' is still grasping, and anyway, all grasping is really no more than grasping at a 'mind-made concept' and such is the breading ground for discontentment, for this does no more than encourage the practitioner to discriminate and then choose between one delusion (mind-made concept) or another!

Resume of Block One:
'Cross Hands' to (the 'linking sequence' of GST) 'Part Wild Horses Mane'.
(GST=Grasp the Sparrows Tail sequence - see Block One)

Introduction to Block Two
The study that follows encourages Budoka and all of those that have chosen to follow this course to take an even closer look at 'Grasp the Sparrows Tail' sequence; to 'refine' that sequence and then apply those new 'self-taught' refinements similarly to 'Cross Hands' and 'Wrestle Tiger' - the 'linked' moves that commence Part Three of the Yang Long Form.