I used to attend tai chi classes on Monday and Buddhist meditation on Tuesdays, but as you can see from previous entries, I lapsed with my attendance to the Buddhist meditation classes.

There were two reasons for this: the first was that I realised Buddhism wasn’t for me and I went to the class to find out more about Buddhism as well as to meditate; the second reason was that tai chi has a greater meditative effect on me than the meditation class.

It would be what you call ‘meditation in action’ – this is different to the sitting meditation in the class. It got to the point that the clarity I sought in meditation classes came to me in tai chi classes instead.

I now practise tai chi at least once a week, and feel better for it mentally as well as physically. As far as I’m concerned, this has met the criteria for this goal and I therefore consider this as done.