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This booklet serves as the textbook for a course that attempts to modernize an ancient form of Chinese martial arts, called Tai Chi Chuen in which a Zen meditative state is used to enhance the effectiveness in training. Tai Chi as the principles of all forms of Dong gong, like Tai Chi Chuen and Jing gong, like meditation, can be applied into many activities to enhance the integrative body-mind training. In Chan (Zen in Japanese) meditation The main principles of Tai Chi have been infused into the four dignified modes of daily activities i.e. during walking, standing, sitting and when resting in a lying down posture. This booklet has added swimming as one more dignified mode of activities to improve on the effectiveness of the Dong gong. The major theme of this form of martial arts is its adhesiveness to the opponents. It is called the Pang form of power,, which is concretely represented in my design of this new form of exercise, DITC as the water buoyancy, in which the therapeutic effect of exercises is enhanced by triggering the various innate body reflexes, like the head neck reflex and the swimming reflex. The therapeutic effect of reflexes has been empirically proven in an experiment using rats that were made to suffer an ischemic stroke.The initial practice among students of Dolphin Instance Tai Chi has reported encouraging results and hopefully, more refinements can be accomplished when DITC is taught in a larger scale. The therapeutic effectiveness of DITC is objectively monitored and measured by the benign changes in blood pressure and fitness improvement.The occipital weightless (Ding Tou Xuan) feeling claimed by many Tai Chi masters has a partial scientific foundation. In my book, Med Rehab Tai Chi (Ho 2010), I have collected extensive research evidence showing the scientifically based theories that prove the therapeutic effects of Tai Chi, Chan (Zen in Japanese) meditation and yoga. However, these practices are originally designed not for health enhancem