Citace - English



„The real essence of Taoism is the practice of yourself, that is the internal practice, which included the practice of essence … chi and the spirit. After practicing for a long time your mind can reach a higher level and reach a level that will integrate you with nature. “

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Film:
Braeley, Jon. Masters of Heaven and Earth - The Secrets of Tai Chi Chuan. Empty Mind Films, 2008. [q226] [s32]





„Everyone knows that the movements of Tai chi are slow. Why are these movements slow? In Martial Arts the practitioner always fights with fast movements, and the speed of the movements is very important. Yet Tai chi chuan is slow and soft and looks like you are floating. Actually when you practice the movements of Tai chi chuan it is for circulating the chi in our bodies, or we can call it the energy in our bodies. So when the practitioners make the Tai chi movements the mind and the chi move together. It is the combination of mind and chi, the combination of the three internal elements – the mind, the chi and the power. When the mind moves, the chi will follow and then the power will come out. “

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Film:
Braeley, Jon. Masters of Heaven and Earth - The Secrets of Tai Chi Chuan. Empty Mind Films, 2008. [q225] [s32]





„Common to most Chinese Martial Arts is standing meditation. But in Wudang it is part of Qigong a Taoist exercise for longevity based on ancient inner alchemy. Named after five animals: the dragon, tiger, leopard, the snake and the crane. Qigong is designed to rejuvenate specific internal organs. The students remain motionless controlling mind, breath and the blood flow. This exercise is essential for Tai chi were the soft is used to overcome the hard“

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Film:
Braeley, Jon. Masters of Heaven and Earth - The Secrets of Tai Chi Chuan. Empty Mind Films, 2008. [q224] [s32]





„As for Martial Arts, I am a professional Martial Arts practitioner and I have been practicing for many years. The highest level of Martial Arts in Taoism is health – preservation. The highest level of Martial Arts is to achieve quietness. From Liangyi to Tai chi to Wuji – the highest level is Wuji or quietness. The principle is to refine essence into chi and the chi to nourish the spirit. The spirit returns to nothing and the nothingness corresponds to Tao… so the highest level is the Tao.“

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Film:
Braeley, Jon. Masters of Heaven and Earth - The Secrets of Tai Chi Chuan. Empty Mind Films, 2008. [q223] [s32]





„To combine Yin and Yang is Tai chi and to separate Yin and Yang is Liangyi. It combines the dynamic and static together… the soft and hard together. This is Tai chi – it combines the mind and the movements together. “

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Film:
Braeley, Jon. Masters of Heaven and Earth - The Secrets of Tai Chi Chuan. Empty Mind Films, 2008. [q222] [s32]





„Zhong Yun Long: ‘Here Tai chi is not just a set of forms but a complete system. The system of Tai chi chuan includes Wuji … Tai chi and Liangyi. The sequence is set from one low level to the next higher level. At the very beginning, everybody should start with Kungfu practice since the Taoist Martial Arts, like traditional Kungfu, all start with Kungfu practice. This is especially true of the internal kungfu of Taoism as it relies on the chi and blood relies on the essence, the chi and the spirit. The practice starts from the practice of chi and spirit. Chi comes from the essence, or we say essence is converted to chi. Only after we have chi we can have energy. In the beginning we practice standing meditation to release chi. This step of refining the essence and converting it into chi is called Wuji. When the practitioners get sufficient chi and the wisdom reaches a certain level they will start to use some movements to bring out their internal kungfu. This is Tai chi chuan.’“

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Film:
Braeley, Jon. Masters of Heaven and Earth - The Secrets of Tai Chi Chuan. Empty Mind Films, 2008. [q221] [s32]





„It is said in Tai chi, where the mind goes the chi goes and the body follows. That Tai chi stimulates blood flows and nervous system is the reality. When combine with breath and governed by the mind chi will flow. Chi is intrinsic energy or live force generated during Tai chi. When the chi flows, movements follows. Acquiring this skill is the goal in the practice of Tai chi. “

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Film:
Braeley, Jon. Masters of Heaven and Earth - The Secrets of Tai Chi Chuan. Empty Mind Films, 2008. [q220] [s32]





„It is said in Martial Arts, that the most important step is the first one - finding the right teacher…“

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Film:
Braeley, Jon. Masters of Heaven and Earth - The Secrets of Tai Chi Chuan. Empty Mind Films, 2008. [q219] [s32]





„The ancient musicologists and mystics of India, who developed sound therapy, observed that Sound has an invincible power. Nothing is an exception to its laws of natural harmony. Sound therapy is an arrangement of sounds, in a specific order and design, to invoke different feelings that influence our very DNA. Much scientific study has been done relating how our feelings affect our bodies and minds. When sounds are arranged according to the principles of the ancient music of India, which are based on the natural scale, they are naturally therapeutic. A master musician, like Roop Verma, can help the listener experience sound healing.“

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Web:
Verma, Roop. Experience meditative music that is brilliant & healing: Sound therapy[online]. Dostupné z WWW: <www.roopverma.com>. [q145] [s25]





„This is a technique where the opponent falls by himself if he is thrown by leading his ki forward.“

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Video:
Morihei Ueshiba - Aikido[online]. 2006. Dostupné z WWW: <youtube.com>. [q142] [s24]





„This is a technique for throwing the opponent while not opposing his power but by absorbing it naturally into one’s own. “

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Video:
Morihei Ueshiba - Aikido[online]. 2006. Dostupné z WWW: <youtube.com>. [q141] [s24]





„The Founder throws his opponents lightly as if dancing and they haven’t the least idea from where the power which has downed them has come. “

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Video:
Morihei Ueshiba - Aikido[online]. 2006. Dostupné z WWW: <youtube.com>. [q140] [s24]





„Inner piece. Inner piece… that’s cool. Inner piece of what?
It is the next phase of your training. Every master must find his path to inner peace. Some choose to meditate for 50 years in the cave just like this, without the slightest taste of food or water. Or…?
Some find it through pain and suffering as I did. The day you were chosen as Dragon warrior was the worst day of my life. Nothing else came close. It was the worst most painful mind destroying horrible moment I have ever experienced. But once I realized the problem was not you, but within me I found inner peace and I was able to harness flow of the universe.“

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Film:
Kung Fu Panda 2[online]. DreamWorks Animation, 2011. Dostupné z WWW: <www.uloz.to>. [q103] [s20]





„When you focus, it is easy to excel.“

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Video:
SUN LU TANG: photos[online]. Zayayuma, 2008. Dostupné z WWW: <YouTube.com>. [q101] [s19]





„So it seems coming to life is not necessarily a thing to be celebrated.
Just as death is not always something to be mourned, being born is not necessarily a joy in its self.
When you are born, you cry, but the whole word is overjoyed.
When you die, the world cries, but you may find the great liberation.“

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Film:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life: (2 parts)[online]. NHK Creative of Japan, Mistral Film of France, National Film Board of Canada, 1994. Dostupné z WWW: <www.uloz.to>. [q100] [s18]





„This world seems stable and solid, but nothing here is permanent. But like water snow and ice, life is always shifting changing form.“

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Film:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life: (2 parts)[online]. NHK Creative of Japan, Mistral Film of France, National Film Board of Canada, 1994. Dostupné z WWW: <www.uloz.to>. [q99] [s18]





„The Tibetan Book of the Dead describes the collapse of the body’s constituent elements. Earth collapses in to the water, water collapses in to the fire, fire collapses in to the air and air dissolves into consciousness. Then there is an experience of piercing luminosity. Pure white light, a clear radiance that rises from the direct experience of once own basic nature. “

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Film:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life: (2 parts)[online]. NHK Creative of Japan, Mistral Film of France, National Film Board of Canada, 1994. Dostupné z WWW: <www.uloz.to>. [q98] [s18]





„Soon we all go die; our hopes and fears will be irrelevant. Illumines continuity of existence, which has no origin and which has never died. Human beings project all the images of live and death, terror and joy, demons and gods. These images become our complete reality and we submit without thinking to their dance and all the movements of this dance we project our greatest fears on death and we make every effort to ignore it. “

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Film:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life: (2 parts)[online]. NHK Creative of Japan, Mistral Film of France, National Film Board of Canada, 1994. Dostupné z WWW: <www.uloz.to>. [q97] [s18]





„I am always grateful, what the path of live gives to me.“

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Film:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life: (2 parts)[online]. NHK Creative of Japan, Mistral Film of France, National Film Board of Canada, 1994. Dostupné z WWW: <www.uloz.to>. [q96] [s18]





„The Tibetan Book of the Dead presents the states of dying and after death as continues possibility. We can become frozen in our attachments and fear or we can recognise the liberation of our true nature. The Tibetan Book of the Dead shows that this opportunity is available to us in every moment of live and dead.“

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Film:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life: (2 parts)[online]. NHK Creative of Japan, Mistral Film of France, National Film Board of Canada, 1994. Dostupné z WWW: <www.uloz.to>. [q94] [s18]





„Living/Dying Project (San Francisco) was created in order to create an environment, in which people that were deep in philosophical materialism, could explore another metaphor for live and that’s for death. And the people we found most willing to do that, were people that where them self facing the death.“

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Film:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life: (2 parts)[online]. NHK Creative of Japan, Mistral Film of France, National Film Board of Canada, 1994. Dostupné z WWW: <www.uloz.to>. [q93] [s18]





„Living/Dying Project in San Francisco has been assisting the terminally ill patients for more than 20 years. The project aim is to help dying people find meaning of transition between live and death. ‘The project was created because the metaphor, the story line, that existed in our culture for dying in which death was seen as failure and the enemy and the error of the universe.’“

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Film:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life: (2 parts)[online]. NHK Creative of Japan, Mistral Film of France, National Film Board of Canada, 1994. Dostupné z WWW: <www.uloz.to>. [q92] [s18]





„According to this text, the consciousness of the dead person lingers between one live and another for a period of 49 days. During that time he‘s capable of hearing. So the text is red aloud to encourage and guide him.“

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Film:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life: (2 parts)[online]. NHK Creative of Japan, Mistral Film of France, National Film Board of Canada, 1994. Dostupné z WWW: <www.uloz.to>. [q91] [s18]





„The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the guide for the dying. It describes the process of dying as the natural transition. The text explains how, by recognizing the mental states and physical sufferings involved, we can come in contact with our own essential nature. In this way it is possible to find freedom from confusion and fear.“

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Film:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life: (2 parts)[online]. NHK Creative of Japan, Mistral Film of France, National Film Board of Canada, 1994. Dostupné z WWW: <www.uloz.to>. [q90] [s18]





„A miracle! He is the Messiah! He hurt my foot. – Hurt my foot! Hurt my foot! Hurt mine! – Hail, Messiah. – I’m not the Messiah. – I say you are. I should know. I’ve follwed a few. – I’m not the Messiah. Will you please listen? I am not the Messiah. Honestly! - Only the true Messiah denies his divinity. - What? What kind of chance does that give me? All right. I am the Messiah! – He is! He is the Messiah! – Now fuck off! - ...silence... – How shall we fuck off, Lord? – Go away. Leave me alone.“

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Film:
Monty Python. Live of Brian[online]. England : Monty Python's Pictures Ltd., HANDMADE Films, 1979. Dostupné z WWW: <www.uloz.to>. [q32] [s10]





„He’s not giving you any money, so piss off. – My final offer. A shekel for an ex-leper? – Did you say „ex-leper“? – Yes sir. 16 years behind the bell and proud of it. – What happened? – Cured. A bloody miracle. God bless you. – Who cured you? – Jesus did. I was hopping along, minding my business. Up he comes, cures me. One minute I’m a leper with a trade. Next minute my livelihood’s gone. „You’re cured, mate.“ Bloody do-gooder. – Why don’t you tell him you want to be a leper again? – I could do that, sir. I was gonna ask him if he’d make me a bit lame in one leg. Something beggable but not leprosy, which is a pain in the arse, to be blunt. – Brian! Come and clean your room out. – There you are. – Thank you...oh, half a denary for me bloody life story? – There’s no pleasing some people. – That’s just what Jesus said, sir.“

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Film:
Monty Python. Live of Brian[online]. England : Monty Python's Pictures Ltd., HANDMADE Films, 1979. Dostupné z WWW: <www.uloz.to>. [q31] [s10]





„Tai-chi belongs to the group of Chinese systems of internal kung-fu. Its origin in the 12th century when the mythical Taoist Zhang San-feng lived more than 200 years thanks to its exercises. Tai-chi is one of the more complex excercises which has ever been created. It brings together many skills. In the old order they speak about so called five pillars of art.“

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Video:
24SNAiLSMEDiA. Taiji[online]. 24SNAiLS, 2008. Dostupné z WWW: <youtube.com>. [q4] [s3]