Scholar

7th dan is about becoming a scholar. You must be extremely familiar with:

1. The Art of War
2. Biomechanics
3. Chuang Tzu
4. I Ching (Book of Changes)
5. Martial theory
6. Meditation
7. Mutual arising
8. Taijiquan classics
9. Tao
10. Tao Te Ching (The Way and Its Power)
11. Te
12. Teaching theory
13. Tzu-jan
14. Yin/yang
15. Zen