"The basic requirements and essentials we have talked about are very important points. But it is like many things. You can know it but sometimes you cannot carry it out. You may not be able to do it. You may need a long time to train yourself, slowly, slowly accumulating experience. The basic method behind all of this is very, very simple. It is just to loosen the whole body. Within the loosening of the body, you have to address two issues. One is that you have to loosen your mind, the other is to loosen the body. But the looseness is not just soft or a limp kind of looseness. Instead it is a lengthening, extending, opening up looseness. So you must understand all these things when you practice. Many people say: "Oh, I know all about that." But knowing doesn't mean you know how to do it. Many people do not know how to practice."
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Yang Zhenduo, third son of Yang Chengfu - T’ai Chi The International Magazine of T’ai Chi Ch'uan Vol.22 No.1, February 1998
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