{"id":548,"date":"2025-10-17T14:39:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xin.taijimechelen.be\/?page_id=548"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:57:17","slug":"zheng-manqing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/xin.taijimechelen.be\/en\/wat-is-tai-ji\/zheng-manqing\/","title":{"rendered":"Zheng Manqing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"773\" height=\"1024\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-550 size-large\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/xin.taijimechelen.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Patrick-kelly_Relax_Deep_Mind_Pagina_006_Afbeelding_0001-773x1024.webp\" style=\"object-position:45% 35%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"45% 35%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xin.taijimechelen.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Patrick-kelly_Relax_Deep_Mind_Pagina_006_Afbeelding_0001-773x1024.webp 773w, https:\/\/xin.taijimechelen.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Patrick-kelly_Relax_Deep_Mind_Pagina_006_Afbeelding_0001-227x300.webp 227w, https:\/\/xin.taijimechelen.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Patrick-kelly_Relax_Deep_Mind_Pagina_006_Afbeelding_0001-768x1017.webp 768w, https:\/\/xin.taijimechelen.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Patrick-kelly_Relax_Deep_Mind_Pagina_006_Afbeelding_0001-1160x1536.webp 1160w, https:\/\/xin.taijimechelen.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Patrick-kelly_Relax_Deep_Mind_Pagina_006_Afbeelding_0001.webp 1450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 773px) 100vw, 773px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#cfcfcf\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-cb0a7ccb wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2cccf4286f80578af12da49075659282\"><strong>Hall of Happiness<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">May the joy that is everlasting gather in this hall.<br>Not the joy of a sumptuous feast, which slips away even as we leave the table; nor that which music brings.<br>It is only of a limited duration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Beauty and a pretty face are like flowers;<br>they bloom for a while, then die.<br>Even our youth slips swiftly away and is gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">No, enduring happiness is not in these,<br>nor in the three joys of Jung Kung.<br>We may as well forget them, for the joy I mean is worlds away from these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">It is the joy of continuous growth, of helping to develop in ourselves and others the talents and abilities with which we were born<br>\u2014 the gifts of heaven to mortal men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">It is to revive the exhausted and to rejuvenate that which is in decline, so that we are enabled to dispel sickness and suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Let true affection and happy concourse abide in this hall.<br>Let us here correct our past mistakes and lose preoccupation with self. With the constancy of the planets in their courses<br>or of the dragon in his cloud wrapped path,<br>let us enter the land of health and ever after walk within its bounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Let us fortify ourselves against weakness and learn to be self reliant, without ever a moment&#8217;s lapse.<br>Then our resolution will become the very air we breathe, the world we live in;<br>then we will be as happy as a fish in crystal waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">This is the joy which lasts, that we can carry with us to the end of our days.<br>And tell me, if you can; what greater happiness can life bestow?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-66f904bd6872654ecf9a7be30d8e53ed wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Zh\u00e8ng M\u00e0nq\u012bng<\/em><\/strong><br><em><strong>New York City, 1973<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-primary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6bd658d1f3bc46d7f26bddb867d436f6\"><strong>Ruimte van vreugde<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Moge de vreugde die eeuwig is zich verzamelen in deze zaal.<br>Niet de vreugde van een weelderig feestmaal, die verdwijnt terwijl we de tafel verlaten; noch de vreugde die muziek brengt.<br>Die vreugde is slechts van beperkte duur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Schoonheid en een mooi gezicht zijn als bloemen;<br>ze bloeien een tijdje en gaan dan dood.<br>Zelfs onze jeugd glijdt snel weg en is voorbij.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Nee, blijvend geluk zit niet in deze,<br>noch in de drie vreugden van Jung Kung.<br>We kunnen ze net zo goed vergeten, want de vreugde die ik bedoel is werelden ver weg van deze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Het is de vreugde van voortdurende groei, het helpen ontwikkelen, in onszelf en de anderen, van de aangeboren talenten en vermogens<br>&#8211;&nbsp; de gaven van de hemel aan sterfelijke mensen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Het is om het uitgeputte nieuw leven in te blazen en om wat in verval is te verjongen, zodat we in staat zijn om ziekte en lijden te verdrijven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Laat ware genegenheid en gelukkige samenkomst in deze zaal verblijven. Laten we hier onze fouten uit het verleden corrigeren en onze obsessie met onszelf verliezen.<br>Met de standvastigheid van de planeten in hun baan of van de draak in zijn wolken gewikkeld pad, laten we het land van gezondheid binnengaan en altijd binnen zijn grenzen blijven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Laten we ons versterken tegen zwakheid en leren om op onszelf te vertrouwen, zonder ooit te tanen<br>Dan zal onze vastberadenheid de lucht worden die we inademen, de wereld waarin we leven;<br>dan zullen we zo gelukkig zijn als een vis in kristalwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Dit is de vreugde die blijvend is, die we tot het einde van onze dagen met ons mee kunnen dragen. 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