The Formosa Tai Chi Competition concluded at Taipei Municipal Lanya Junior High School this year after one and a half days of vigorous competition. Fellow initiates on the Miaoli team performed superbly against some of the best Tai Chi boxers selected from around Formosa to win the championship, shattering the misconception that vegetarians are not as strong as those who eat meat.

The heated contest drew the very best out of the exceptionally talented participants striving to emerge victorious over powerful competitors. The Miaoli team made up of fellow initiates who love Tai Chi, attracted a cheering crowd of fellow practitioners from various parts of Formosa, and even from as far as Brazil. The team lived up to the expectations of their enthusiastic supporters by capturing the first three prizes in their level in an extraordinary feat.

The coach leading the Miaoli team was brother Qiu, also a Quan Yin practitioner, who challenged the misconception among most people, especially athletes, that a meat diet is the best way to nurture strength. As a matter of fact, inner strength is built by not only adopting a vegetarian diet and giving up the meat diet but also by developing one's spiritual strength. The combined effort of wanting to harmonize the body and mind while mastering the timely preservation and use of strength can bring about the unification of the body, mind and spirit.

Although athletes usually develop their strength through muscle training and large intakes of animal protein, this in fact only serves to nurture an explosive energy that is reminiscent of the beasts. Those with a harmonious body, mind and spirit only require vegetarian protein, vitamins and minerals containing energy that are peaceful in nature. This is because after vegetables, minerals and grains are digested and absorbed in the human body, they release a vibrant life force much like the energy they originally contained. This gives vegetarians a perfect sense of balance in countering outside forces, and enables them to fully exercise their superb stamina and inner strength in any form of sport (with or without an opponent).

Spiritual practitioners who eat only plants and minerals are absolutely superior to meat eaters in terms of agility and dynamic power because they are also building up their spiritual strength. When they are in competition with opponents, their sensitivity lets them instantly detect the intent in attack and weaknesses in the defense of their rivals. Therefore, in the lightning fast hand-moves (Tai Chi boxers mainly use hand-pushes against their opponents), they can defeat their rivals in a matter of seconds. Regardless of the explosive energy they come up against, vegetarian, spiritual practitioners can easily dissolve strong aggressive forces with their inner energy. Compared to people who gather animal strength through meat consumption, vegetarian, spiritual practitioners can develop greater power and an inner energy of superior quality.

In this new era, many concepts have changed and evolved rapidly. We are very fortunate to be living at such a crucial moment in time, where we can do our share to promote the evolution of the human race.

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