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		<title>Finding Stillness and Truth with Zhan Zhuang</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Godwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can we find stillness? Wang Xiangzhai (founder of Yiquan) himself said that we cannot be truly still, that we are always moving. True stillness can only be found in movement and true movement can only be born of true stillness. We move to find stillness so that true movement can be manifest. Moving to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeffortlessway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6966555&amp;post=103&amp;subd=theeffortlessway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Qi and Yiquan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Godwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hear and read many people saying that there is no concept of Qi in Yiquan. Anyone saying this does not understand the concept of Qi. What Wang Xiang Zhai (Yiquan founder) was railing against all those years ago, was the superstitious and unfounded use of the concept of Qi. I don’t know Wang and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeffortlessway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6966555&amp;post=100&amp;subd=theeffortlessway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>7 Billion Gongfu Masters and Counting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Godwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people would be surprised to hear that they are a gongfu master, but they are. In fact, no one on the planet can be better at being them than them. I have studied many styles of martial arts from many different teachers, no doubt benefiting in one way or another from all of my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeffortlessway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6966555&amp;post=98&amp;subd=theeffortlessway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Direct Transmission</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Godwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a truth to all things that cannot be put into words. It cannot be put into form of any kind, because it is the mother of all forms. Only experience can get you there.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeffortlessway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6966555&amp;post=67&amp;subd=theeffortlessway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rediscovering Taijiquan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Godwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[...it really doesn’t matter how we practice the basic principles of central equilibrium, listening, and finding our own way.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeffortlessway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6966555&amp;post=60&amp;subd=theeffortlessway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forgetting to Forget That We Know Something</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 23:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Godwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can we ever really be totally still? I don’t know. I don’t know if anyone can know. It has been my experience that I continue to find ever deeper levels of stillness. I look back over the years of meditation and self-cultivation and see patterns of deep stillness giving way to deeper ones. I can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeffortlessway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6966555&amp;post=57&amp;subd=theeffortlessway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Divided, You Fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Godwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is in identifying more with the whole of us and less with the parts of us that we find freedom and the Way.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeffortlessway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6966555&amp;post=55&amp;subd=theeffortlessway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe, Maybe Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Godwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If we can cultivate non-attachment to the form of things, we can see that things just change. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeffortlessway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6966555&amp;post=53&amp;subd=theeffortlessway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;&#8230;don&#8217;t need no stinking authority&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://theeffortlessway.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/dont-need-no-stinking-authority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Godwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never had a problem with authority, because I haven’t found any. I don’t know anyone who can tell me more about being me than me.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeffortlessway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6966555&amp;post=50&amp;subd=theeffortlessway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Do Nothing and Achieve Everything&#8221;&#8230;What the Hell?!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob Godwin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can you “do nothing and achieve everything”? At first, this might seem like some kind of fortune cookie wisdom that hippies pass around with a bong. It may be that, but that’s not all it is. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theeffortlessway.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6966555&amp;post=46&amp;subd=theeffortlessway&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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