i am in india again without any money
and must work for my living
my family in india hear of my throwing away my hongkong work permit
which was so difficult to obtain
and my sudden outburst and departure
they all know me…my sudden outbursts…and keep away

i am stuck with no way back
i always burn my bridges when i leave

perhaps i would teach tai chi and earn this way

some friends get to know that i have started to teach tai chi
and in one month i get my first six students and begin classes everyday
the word gets around fast and each person brings new friends
and am to get twenty more students

all the interested people are diplomats from embassies in new delhi
the first secretary of the spanish embassy
the cultural ambassador of the mexican embassy
the first secretary of the finnish embassy
the translator and secretary of the italian embassy
the marines of the american embassy
and the list grows daily with their appreciation and good word
and soon i am in the diplomatic circuit
invited to all their parties and embassy evenings

i do not want more than four in a class
as i feel i want to give my total attention to each person
i start to give three to four classes each day
each lasting one and a half hours

i am grateful to my students as i now have to train myself deeper
and spend six hours each day totally immersed in my tai chi classes

it is convenient and comfortable as i teach in the private park
attached to my single bedroom in a retired colonels west end house

i spend the next year teaching and training my body deeper
as till now i had ignored the body
i start receiving regular deep tissue massages
and work into the shoulder dislocations and muscular damage

i spent all the balance money to buy more books and read further
i have acquired another library of eight hundred books mostly on
zen gardens zen temples and eastern ways of life and martial arts

since the violent attack on me i have focused to heal and repair my body
slowly linking the delicate vital threads
and aligning my body vertically through the crown