Dance of the Tao with Chungliang Al Huang

Program Description

“Dance on both feet, balance the advancing and the yielding, the stepping and the picking up,” advises Al Huang, master of T’ai Chi and author of Quantum Soup and Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain. A longtime friend of Alan Watts, with whom he wrote Tao: The Watercourse Way (Pantheon 1977), Huang touches on those principles of inner dancing that make life a joy. In this amusing and enlightening conversation, he encourages us to move freely, to laugh, to embrace paradox, to take ourselves and our world lightly, “to take the S out of cosmic and enjoy what’s left.”

Founder and president of the Living Tao Foundation and director of the Lan Ting Institute in China, Huang is also a Tai Ji master, calligrapher, and the author of several books, including Embrace Tiger Return to Mountain: The Essence of Tai Ji (Celestial Arts 1988), Quantum Soup: Fortune Cookies in Crisis (Celestial Arts 1991), Mentoring: The TAO of Giving and Receiving Wisdom (co-authored with Jerry Lynch, HarperSanFrancisco 1995), Tai Ji: Essential Tai Ji (Celestial Arts 2001), Thinking Body, Dancing Mind: Tao Sports for Extraordinary Performance (co-authored with Jerry Lynch, Bantam Books 1992), Working Out, Working Within: The Tao of Inner Fitness Through Sports and Exercise (co-authored with Jerry Lynch, Tarchar/Putnam 1998), and The Five Elements Video. To learn more about the work of Chungliang Al Huang go to www.livingtao.org

Program Number: 1863                   Host: Michael Toms                 Interview Date: 4/6/1984