Sifu Andy Green at  Woodford Folk FESTIVAL in Queensland ' 23 -24 

Thanks to all those who participated in the fantastic workhops in the Bazaar . 

 It's so great to share the spirit of Tai Chi together . 

WU WEI Tai Chi School in Melbourne 

Qi Gong Classes are available on ZOOM on Wednesday evenings 7pm Melbourne Time 

To register please contact Sifu Andy on his email andygreen555(at)yahoo.com.au

Fee  $18/$20

In Person Classes -Thursday 7.30pm at Saint Marks Community Church 100 Hodgkinson St Clifton Hill 

                                  Andy Green 0416149738

 

21/3/21

Hello Friends,

Wu Wei School has now moved to Yanchep ,West Australia 

We practise on Friday and Sunday Mornings  9 am -10am 

at Old Nursery Park  at 7 Yanchep beach Road Yanchep 

All welcome no matter your experience.

You can contact Sifu Andy  Green on our Facebook group Wu Wei School

You can email Andy on : andygreen555(at)yahoo.com.au

mobile ph: +61 (0)416149738

and you can also find us currently on Facebook 

WuWei School 

Wu Wei School Of Internal Martial Arts is OPEN

Tai Chi and Qi Gong class on Sat Morning 9 am -10:30 am with Andy Green

At 15 Wheeler St Castlemaine

For enquiries

please  call  Andy on 0416 149 738

Thankyou

Dear friends of Wu Wei,

unfortunately I have  had to close the school while I am working full time .With the extra travel, it's too difficult to also teach classes. I would encourage all those interested to go to a very experienced teacher , healer and friend of mine Gerard Menzel. He is  based in Carisbrook  and also teaches in the Castlemaine area.Thankyou to you all for coming to classes. I wish you well in your ever deepening understanding of the watercouse way ! I will let you know when the school reopens . Please visit my taichi brother's blogspot below.Thanks again . Best wishes Sifu Andy Green

Gerard Menzel of Wild Lotus Arts

0407734479   gmenzel@hotmail.com

http://wildlotus-arts.blogspot.com.au/

"The highest form of goodness is like water.
Water knows how to benefit all things without striving with them
It stays in places loathed by all men.
Therefore it comes near the Tao.
In choosing your dwelling, know how to keep to the ground.
In cultivating your mind, know how to dive in the hidden deeps.
In dealing with others, know how to be gentle and kind.
In speaking, know how to keep your words.
In governing know how to maintain order.
In transacting business, know how to be efficient.
in making a move, know how to choose the right moment.
If you do not strive with others, you will be free from blame..."

 from Tao Te Ching -Shambala pocket classic translated by John C.H.Wu

August 9th 2016

Dear Friends,

Spring is just round the corner and with it comes change.

Just letting you know that Wu Wei Tai chi school is  closing and going underground

 for a while as I will be working fulltime with Wellways in Ballarat

 in my mental health and counselling work

so I will be practising informally and when ever time permits.

Keep practising. Be happy and may the Chi be with you!

 Sifu Andy Green

Hello friends, WINTER is here...the big tree is losing its leaves

and the buddha garden dojo has closed for the winter

WU WEI Tai Chi School will open again for classes in the Spring

Til then , be happy...

 and see you when the sun returns and the frost melts

yours in the Tao,

  Sifu Andy Green

Here are some lovely Winter Haikus from the well loved Japanese poet

 Matsuo Basho who lived from 1644 – 1694 

Winter Solitude

by Matsuo Basho

Winter solitude –

in a world of one colour

the sound of wind.

Winter Garden

by Matsuo Basho

Winter garden,

the moon thinned to a thread,

insects singing.

First Winter Rain

by Matsuo Basho

First winter rain –

even the monkey

seems to want a raincoat.

When the Winter Chrysanthemums Go

by Matsuo Basho

When the winter chrysanthemums go,

there’s nothing to write about

but radishes.

The unexamined life is not worth living

"The unexamined life is not worth living.”

—Socrates, during his trial for heresy in Athens, 399 BC

 

Socrates was in trouble. He had been encouraging the youth to enquire and ask questions, thus challenging the political and religious status quo. He was not teaching people what to think, but for teaching them how to think. The price for his philosophical endeavours was the choice between exile or a fatal dose of hemlock. He defended himself at his trial but to no avail, in the end accepting the hemlock.

Socrates symbolises the great spirit of enquiry, a search for authenticity as well as a resolute defiance in the face of state-sanctioned bullying and forces that kept people shackled in unquestioned limiting beliefs. In Ancient Greece, as with most states and political milieus since that time, the agenda was the teaching of 'what to think' and ‘what to believe’, the tenets of which, if accepted, led to a form of collective sleep.

So what is the meaning of an examined life? If it is the examining of a life subject to intellectual enquiry and analysis, we would be reducing ourselves to just the thinking function of mind, and in doing this our examining would only be partial. As important as our ability to think is – and the knowing of how to think as Socrates championed – even more important is the knowing of who we are, and in this knowing, understanding how we are limited by the mind.

 ©  Andy Green 2015