Taiji is a method for attending to leakage. Whilst my energy is leaking, either through bad posture, bad diet, excessive sex, anxiety, etc, I will not be able to respond honestly and immediately to stimuli – I will be irresponsible – I will break promises. All martial artists strive to reach a permanent state of mind where their responses are unthinking and pure – so quick they seem to precede whatever prompted them. And all who achieve it will admit that it is only possible by pledging life to the pursuit of truth. A trothplight.