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What do you do outside of your Taiji practice

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 What do you do outside of your Taiji practice? Does your practice extend into these activities and/or vice versa? A couple of chance encounters over the last few months have highlighted the non-Taiji aspects of well known Taiji practitioners. It was well known that Cheng Man-ching was regarded as 'Master of Five Excellences' - and some extend this to seven - including calligraphy, painting, medicine, poetry, and philosophy. But did you know that Ken Van Sickle, one of Cheng's early students, is an accomplished photographer, the Wall Street Times running a piece on him earlier this month: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/lens/ken-van-sickle-photos-bohemian.html Ed Young, also an early student of Cheng's, is an award-winning children's author and illustrator. Just two examples but I'd be surprised if there weren't more out there. Is there scope for such creativity within Taiji practice or does the repetition, focus, and precision of practice stimulate other...