Although Taijiquan is better known in the West as an excellent exercise that is very beneficial for health, especially for adults and senior citizens, Taijiquan was invented several hundred years ago as a martial art. It is still an excellent martial art. It emphasizes deflection, redirection of opponent’s force, utilization of opponent’s motion to get […]
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The Journey Towards Peace and Reconciliation
December 2008
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The attached 13-minute video describes the powerful and deep emotional impacts experienced by a Canadian teacher who participated in the 2008 “Peace and Reconciliation Study Tour to China” (also known as “China Study Tour”[1]). The trip provided her an opportunity to meet victims of sexual slavery, military slavery, germ warfare, and the Nanking Massacre. Meeting […]
America at the Crossroad
Several significant events occurring recently in the U.S. should force us as Americans to scrutinize closely what has been happening in our country. In particular, our country, having been the richest and most powerful country in the world in essentially the second half of the 20th century, doesn’t seem from several perspectives to be doing […]