There Are No Secrets: Professor Cheng Man-Ch'ing and His TaiI Chi Chuan Wolfe Lowenthal
Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Liang didn't start his T'ai Chi studies until he Professor Cheng was once asked, “What is the most important reason to study T'ai Chi Ch' uan?” “The most important reason is that when you finally reach the place where you understand what life is about, you'll have some health to enjoy it,” was his answer. Masters: Professor Cheng Man-ching (who taught all of my teachers) and one of his students, T. Form here on his nickname “Master of the five Excellences” that followed him all his life long. He was a great human and cultural personality, man gifted with exceptional talent and versatility, traditional medicine, handwriting and Tai Chi Chuan. (from There Are No Secrets, by Wolfe Lowenthal). Cheng Man Ch'ing was undoubtedly one of the most famous Tai Chi Chuan Grand Master of the nineteenth century. Know as the “Master of the Five To get a taste of this Master's gifts just read Wolfe Lowenthal's “There are No Secrets” or “Gateway to the Miraculous,” fantastic Tai Chi literature. €Professor” as he was called by those students closest to him, was a teacher that so deeply influenced his inner students that they have taken it upon themselves to spread not only his 37 posture set but also the wisdom of his teachings. I am doing Cheng Man Ching's form in my tai chi dojo but there are some notable differences when we do it compared to how Cheng seems to be doing it on Youtube. Cheng was chronologically the last of the inside the door students of the great Yang Cheng Fu. One that bothers me a bit is that we go down sometimes.