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The Right Time To Go

Steve Rowe

When your dog is sufferingAnd has no quality of lifeYou put him out of his miseryYet we let relatives and ourselvesSuffer interminablyPlaces of healing become places of tortureHospitals and hospices leave people writhing in painDemented human bodies are left in fearWandering like the undeadTo placate their relatives, the law and outdated religionWe have the choiceBut not the methodWhen we don’t have the mind or bodyTo complete the actWe need a way to be out of our miseryGovernments kick the can down the roadThe young and healthy don’t want to think about itConvincing everyone it’s an act of cowardiceAnd not fair … Continue reading The Right Time To Go

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Immortality Calling

Steve Rowe

It starts in the middle of your chestThe heart chakraThe pull towards deathLike pulling you out of your chestToward something betterAll your friends, pets and familyThat have passed beforeCalling you overTo somewhere far betterStill and peacefulLife hurtsYour body hurtsLife literally has a stenchCluttered with thingsAnd distractionsTo take you away from realityLife is deathYou die into itWhen you’ve suffered enoughYou’re borne out of itThose consumed and addicted to lifeLike drug addictsAre subject to desire and aversionThe suffering is acceptedLike Stockholm syndromeIn the end they balance outWhen the sentence is servedThe meat vehicle rots awayThe mind and emotions fadeAnd the souls slips … Continue reading Immortality Calling

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They Don’t Exist!

Steve Rowe

It’s all an illusionFFSCountries invented by humansBorders invented by humansReligion invented by humans So why are they fightingAnd killing innocent peopleOver these illusionsI cry for the woundedThe crippledAnd dead All for the illusionsCountriesBordersReligionThey don’t exist!FFS IndoctrinationPeople that can’t seeCan’t take the dust from their eyesDistractionApathyStupidity It’s all an illusionFFS…… Continue reading They Don’t Exist!

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Tai Chi’s A Funny Game

Steve Rowe

Tai Chi people can be funnyThere are people with exclusive magicWho look down on the hoi poloiAs pitiable acolyte’sConfusing everyone with terminologyThere are those that leanOn impeccable lineageWith flowery handsAnd embroidered feetSome have silk suitsThat ripple in the breezeThere are hippiesThat heal with ancestral energyThere are formsSo many formsPrayers to the ancestorsCombining meditation and energy workInto fighting techniquesPush hands to testStructural integrityAnd stop practitionersFrom just playing with themselvesBeneath all these facesLies the best structuredMost powerfulMethod of developingMental focusEmotional intelligenceGood health and vitalityAnd self defenceThat I’ve ever encountered Never judge a book by its cover. Continue reading Tai Chi’s A Funny Game

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Why Are Humans Here?

Steve Rowe

God said to Adam and EveI make you in my imageYou are the gods in my gardenWith the ability to make it heavenLook after the earthSo it can growKeep the water pureSo you can drinkThe air cleanSo you can breatheCare for its productsThe plants will nourishThe animals will loveHumans will care for it allAnd for each otherPeace is not naturalIt has to be nurturedThis is your taskTo create heaven on earth Don’t f*ck it up By Steve Rowe Continue reading Why Are Humans Here?

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The Perfect Workout

Steve Rowe

I don’t do short forms in Tai Chi. The Yang Chen Fu 108 for me along with the family neigong and qigong is the perfect morning ‘monk style’ workout that can be explored in a multitude of ways and the afternoon ‘warrior’ workout of the weaponry, Long Boxing and Sanshou set is perfect. Repeated techniques cover moving on the spot (grasp sparrow’s tail) with the 4 major jins (ward off, roll back, press, push), and rolling arms moving forward (brush knee), backward (repulse monkey) and sideways (waving hands like clouds). Other techniques cover the other jins and angles in a … Continue reading The Perfect Workout

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Releasing Energy

Steve Rowe

Understand how the body naturally builds up and releases energy and you understand how to use it in qigong and Tai Chi. This also applies to the internal energy in all martial art technique. Your morning stretch is different to your exercise stretches. This is because you build up your energy in your stretch and then release it to wake up. Notice the feeling that goes with the release. You do the same when you sneeze, yawn, when you go to the loo, when you ejaculate and even when dealing with emotion and pain. Understand this and you go a … Continue reading Releasing Energy

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Soft Front, Strong Back Reviews

Steve Rowe

3 BOOK REVIEWS- When we published this book I bought 300 to do as signed copies and have a few spare as gifts etc but surprisingly, nearly all have gone, so if you are in the U.K. and want one of the remaining copies, order it here on this link https://py.pl/1m5JAm Here are a couple of reviews you might find interesting….. Francis Briers – I got my copy of my long time teacher, Steve Rowe’s book and have started to read it today. What strikes me is how vulnerable Steve has been in writing honestly about himself and his life. … Continue reading Soft Front, Strong Back Reviews

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Sharing Is Caring

Steve Rowe

In the 80’s I was an Operations Manager in a security company with around 500 staff in all manner of contracts. Often at night I’d drive around the sites to visit our guards who were on minimum pay and 12hr shifts on various duties, many were Indian and Pakistani. They would always insist on sharing their meagre rations that they’d bought in to last the shift and would be very offended if I refused. In the beginning I felt embarrassed and tried to refuse but soon realised how important it was to them to share. Food is the staff of … Continue reading Sharing Is Caring