take a break-I like his song~James_Blunt

(photoed in Stockholm,Sweden)

He will come to Taipei at May17 ^_^



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It's not necessary to be perfect~until perfect come along

Everybody like to be the perfect one,

eager to be excellent than others.

Don't be,

it's not necessary to hold the idea deeply when you learn taichi and calligraphy.

because it will make you not so quiet in you mind,not so peaceful arround you,

and always too much look outside instead of just staying in our own.

More relax,

more no compete intent to,

the perfect

will come along by your side.^_^

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Root

The central park in New York City,US

How to make sure the root is done?


Just give some time.





Sunshine,water,fresh air,


like the plant needed,


Don't be push so hard,


all we have to do is~


give and wait

















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To know why and how

It's not easy for them-my lovely students

To find the way to know why and how

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No leave,no independent

When I learned calligraphy about 13 years,

I decided to leave calligraphy,

and last for 10 years didn't touch penbrush anymore again.

The only reason is,

I can't find any reason to push myself to do it-no more join any calligraphy competition.

Refused to be a calligraphy competitionor again,

I felt more relax.

I didn't care I could take that again or not,

because it's no more interesting for me.

After ten years left,

someday I learned TaiChi Chuan,

my taichi teacher told me a lot of calligraphy,

I felt astonished ~why it came again?(a little angry I felt.)

Till I could meet calligraphy in another door,

I picked it up-again.

And nothing to do with being a "calligraphy competitor" more.

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I left my TaiChi school too-two years ago.,

after I learned 12 years.

When I decided to leave,my teacher and my taichi parters all did not allow that truly.

But they respected my decision finally,

because they knew I want to do something I really interesting,

and I have my way to go.

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So I understand now,

NO LEAVE,NO INDEPENDENT

If I really hope for to be a new guy,

to say something good bye is very important.

calligraphy roof in the national palace museum in Taiwan

http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/home.htm

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Awarness

I taught calligraphy in Kiruna,Sweden 2008

When you do taichi or calligraphy,it mean that you will pass a mental process-"awarness".
If you really find the key to enjoy that.

Awarness comes beside "quiet",the word mean that you could listen to your own word from your true inside very deeply.

To do it "correct",it's just the beginning to forget yourself and to follow someone's figure very similar,but being advance,after practice more and more,you will feel more relax and enter the very quiet moment to meet your ego.You will know yourself clearly than before,and know who you are,where you stand,what you like,that's mean "awarness" in my word.

Sometime we say that's a process mean "relax and sink"-and that's a way to let your breath deeply and come down the emotion.

Good for the breath deeper,let the body health and mind empty-we say it's the somatic psychology approach.







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What about TaiChi?

With my taichi and calligraphy students in the community college in Taipei

(the woman in black vest is me ^_^)

Talked lots of calligraphy,showed lots of photos in my english blogger and chinese yahoo

(http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/TaioCalo-yougogirl)

You might ask-

What about taichi?

Actually I learned TaiChi Chuan for 13 years,started because of my leg had got hurt.

For releasing my uncomfortable pain,I found so many different ways to do with-easten medicine way,westen medicine way,but nothing really work for that.Until I met TaiChi Chuan.....

I ever learned 10 forms,13 forms,24 forms,37 forms,42 forms,and so on.and I have been a taichi assistant for a long time and taught Taichi Chuan in community college about four years in Taiwan.Ever been to US twice for join the worldcup taichi competitions,been Chinese once too.

Got some medals is true.

But the keypoint is not how many first place I could take,how can I know taichi well and how the person I like to be,what's the life I like to have-is the key point of view.Practice TaiChi more,know self more.......

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Design is interesting,but.......

it's mean~"hand"

Design is easy?or difficult?

fifty-fifty.

I try to do something new from calligraphy and taichi all the time,

today I finished my stuff already,

but,

I don't really like to join the designer competition in Taiwan any more,

maybe I need to take a break and think about what's happen to me.

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To keep on going is the hardest lesson to teach

For teaching the intergration of TaiChi and Calligraphy program for more one years,lots of challenge came along.

Nothing to do with money,or any hardware,just for understanding what the hardest lesson to teach is the attitude for learning.

Everybody just figured out what can I get immediately when I learned something new-lots of money?being very famous people?if can't see anything before his(her) eyes, he(she) won't keep on going-it's real,right?

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Hold the penbrush~please~~~~~~~

Hold the penbrush~please~~~~~~~not so tight,
just relax is good.

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Am I an artist?

photoed by New York MOMA


I used to be a teacher,educator,coach-sometimes,
but now I love to say-I'm an ARTIST.





Calligraphy and TaiChi are both art,
so the artist doing for what?


for beautiful writing,
for health remimding,
for philosophy thinking,

for psychology learning,
for longevous provided,
for best-lifestyle sharing.





That's what I think ~I'm an artist absolutely this morning.





























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[Traditional style] Watch out for each step

Tonight I practiced this piece for two hours,

it is very traditional style in our calligraphy trend.

This time I wrote in different mind way from my past,

not just "go straight" and "take the same size" for each character.

similar like chess going,

each step started very seriously,

because it will be the "keypoint" if I could write down it good or not.

More alive.

Actually I wrote not so peaceful,

because I felt a little hungry.><

(I didn't eat anything for my dinner)

So my characters were a little changeable-

But it's not bad,

because I felt more challenge between every single character have begun.

Like chess-I think.

Always watch out each step.

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[FAQ]How do I know-my character is good enough?

[Question]
Overseas friends asked me
How do I know my calligraphy characters is good or bad?

[My answer is]
it's the reason why we need to collect so many anciant calligraphy masters' characters book to learn at the beginning.

this is the another calligraphy style of "Li-Su" from Han Dynasty,ancient of China.

(almost 2000 years ago)

The characteristic of Li-Su is not so upright and foursquare

the widthways line is more changeable-

especially is the end of the line softer like bird's tail

At the beginning of learning calligraphy we always need to find a characters book from an ancient calligraphy master,he or she must be the best calligraphor in his or her generation.And he or she always left some beautiful calligraphy book from their created new style art of characters.

After learning from the calligraphors' characters book so many years(depend on you practice how hard-many months or many years,not certain) ,to well know what's the rule they created different other old style, maybe you could put it down and change another calligraphor master's book to follow.

So,that's the reason why you could understand if your calligraphy is good or not,because you have a teacher beside you all the time-the calligraphy master.^_^

But,after beginning,you will have another challenge come out very soon-Why can I not write the same line with the calligraphy book?What's the problem with me?

Let me show you next time.

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Create something new

I just wandering-

How can I make a new style in TaiChi & Calligraphy?

body?

mind?

spirit?

or

alive?

therapeutic?

health?

new way for new life?

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My students in Taiwan(just some of them) - O'house art studioes

This week we wrote the "kAI SU"-
A style of calligraphy in Tang dynasty.
They are cute,right?

(one in the middle was inverse,sorry.)

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Whoever and wherever,we all love to do calligrqaphy and taichi~my new friends in Sweden(Jan 27,2008)

It's me

wrote for the celebration of the chinese lunar year's coming

Helen invited us to come(with my best friend in Sweden-Fei)

Fei

calligraphy practicing

whoever

wrote rat for rat year happiness

forcus on your own(breathing)

age-free

It's me(right side)-again ^^

great piece

chinese sword with the lovely girl

In Sweden

We did have a very good time.

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Chinese fever in New York(Feb 9 , 2008)

In the Asia Art area of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
I saw a program for introducing chinese calligraphy.

I can't help myself to move forward to join them,
and felt so proud in my heart -deeply.


































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Decide to fight

Might be an elementary school teacher all my life-
but it was changed in 2006.
I leaved my job for teaching kids in Taiwan,
might be a tentative plan for me,
or might be change my life forever.


Why should I do that?
it's a story about flight.......


In 2004,
I went to visit my friend who lived in easten US,
The airplane I took from San Francisco to Atlanta almost fallen down-
fortunately,we landed very well.
After that time,
I changed my life plan.
I need to do something for myself immediately-life is short.


The plan to leave my school job is a hard-making decision for me-a long time thinking.
But in 2006,
it's more simple and easier for me.

I decided to fight-
fight with my destiny.......








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Why put calligraphy and TaiChi to come together?(part 1)

Friend asked me-why I put calligraphy and taichi together to teach?
Basicly,it just came from my learning process.

When I was 10 years old,calligraphy came to my life,
it lead me to enjoy quiet so deeply.
I got almost 100 certificate of awards among 10 years for calligraphy competition in Taiwan.
But I didn't like to compete with someone in calligraphy very much,
to enjoy the quietest moment is my favorite.

Learning taichi just for curing my leghurt when I was so depression that I can't do any exercise for one year.Incredible,after one year practiced,my leghurt recovery very well and getting strong-and my heart felt full of energy,body felt more flexible,and peaceful,calm down mind -as same as I did calligraphy.

The best thing is,I find the way to do calligraphy more relax because of taichi,and my writting became more multiplicity and freedom.Actually I do taichi better than before because I could feel flow both in calligraphy and taichi chuan.

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The 6th international conference on East Asian calligraphy education in Taiwan(June 30 - July 2 2008)

The 6th international conference on East Asian calligraphy education in TaiChung,Taiwan


http://www.ntcu.edu.tw/lan/2008ICEACE/default.htm

Welcome to Taiwan!!











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Take a look what you really like

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What's the golden rule for learning caligraphy & taichi?Let's start thinking....

TaiChi







Calligraphy

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The old town in Stockholm(Sweden)~3

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The old town in Stockholm(Sweden)~2

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The old town in Stockholm(Sweden)

I like the old town a lot.

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My favorite in Metropaliten Museum of Art(New York City,US)

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I love Monet

The water lilly.....

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Yin-Yang is always by your side-might be in your blood

Who we do know Yin-Yang a lot,
if you do TaiChi or Calligraphy-
or both.
^_^


It's a great concept from our acient people,
basicly it's the most important principle of the beginning of the universe-I think.


The intersting is,
we always like to create something new about the cousine style in Taiwan,
seldem to mention what about the food is Yin or Yang style.
Not ignored,
it's a deep root in our culture actually.


The first time I considered about the question "Yin -Yang"is the time when I did taichi chuan about ten years ago,
after practiced a lot,I remembered my calligraphy learning process always concerned the"Yin-Yang" too-since I became a calligraphy competitionor when I was a little girl.US friend asked me about the concept of "Yin-Yang" in the food when I went to US in 2004,joined the TaiChi competition in Dallas,Texas.Since that time,I also try to understand what's that mean for "Yin-Yang" concept in our cousine.



Now,I know the color of "black" for food in our culture has some meaning very deeply for body healthy,
it's very interesting for me to have a new vision to see what's the "Yin-Yang" for some kind of chinese cousine.
I know lots of western people eager to know what's the herbal medicine or chinese medicine more,right?
Maybe it's the time to understand my culture deeply now for me-
being a chinese people.














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[Link from the blog about TaiChi and Body Healthy]那很好啊! 太極 Taiji: 報導│藍進士草書千字文 創新視覺

[Link from here]


那很好啊! 太極 Taiji 藍進士草書千字文 創新視覺

In Taiwan,
we try to find the new meaning from the wisdom from our acient people.
Not just me,
this article is also promoted an excellent artist.
Who he did taichi and calligraphy too,
and he knew the code just like me.

What a good news!!










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[Link from this blog for TaiChi and Body Healthy 那很好啊! 太極 Taiji] 黑色當道! 健康食品黑成一片

[那很好啊! 太極 Taij:] 黑色當道! 健康食品黑成一片



Black food ,always good for body healthy-
it's a golden rule in our culture.^_^

Do you agree that too?








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How about this ?[took photo by Museum of Modern Art in New York]

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Simple is the best ~ Brooklyn Bridge [from MOMA in New York]

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Westen? Easten?[by MOMA in New York]

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When I was 12 years old....

I joined the national calligraphy competition for students in Taiwan,
got second place by this piece-
when I was 12 years old.^_^

I ever joined the international calligraphy competition in Japan when I was a little girl,
got the first place actually,
but I can't get my piece back~you know that.
They always like to keep it.

Now,
to keep my pieces on my hand is more important than the medal they like to give me.
























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