Justin Stone by the Decade

• Born in Ohio on November 20.

• Spends childhood in New York City.

• Attends Cornell University (1934) for two years;

• Moves to Los Angeles (1939), where he lands his first music job at a radio station and begins writing songs.

• Returns to New York City (1940) and assembles his first orchestra;

• Enlists in the Army Air Corps after Pearl Harbor bombing (1943);

• After Army discharge, composes, arranges, plays in and writes best-selling children’s record sets;

• Organizes his first Big Band;

• Elected to ASCAP (1945);

• Becomes a Wall Street broker (1949) and eventual partner and half-owner of a N.Y. Stock Exchange seat.

• Sells interest in NYSE seat and moves to Los Angeles;

• Resumes career as a stock broker to celebrities in Beverly Hills;

• Meets Zen poet and world traveler Paul Reps (1954), who greatly influences Stone’s life;

• Travels with Reps to Hawaii (1958), where they learn T’ai Chi Ch’uan.

• Receives Wurlitzer Foundation Fellowship to compose poetry in Taos, New Mexico;

• Travels by freighter to Japan for the first of seven trips (1963);

• Lives and meditates in Buddhist temples with Zen monks;

• Travels to India, living and meditating with Yogis in the Himalayas;

• Returns to Los Angeles (1966), working as a stock market technician and lecturer to finance future trips to Southeast Asia.

• Leaves Wall Street once and for all, moving to New Mexico (1971);

• Creates and teaches language-learning method Rapid English for Japanese students (1972);

• Teaches Eastern disciplines, including meditation, at the University of New Mexico Honors Department and the University of Albuquerque;

• Originates T’ai Chi Chih through intuitive flashes in Albuquerque, NM (1974);

• Holds first TCC Teacher’s Accreditation in Los Angeles (1975);

• Moves to Carmel, California (1978), where he begins painting as a natural progression from music composition;

• Exhibits on the Monterey Peninsula and in Mendocino.

• Continues painting, daily meditation, writing, training T’ai Chi Chih teachers, and exhibiting on the Monterey Peninsula;

• Creates new movement form Seijaku, advanced T’ai Chi Chih (1986);

• Records audio teachings Justin Stone Speaks on T’ai Chi Chih (1986);

• Records original jazz piano compositions;

• Creates nationwide “Heightened Awareness” workshops;

• Produces instructional video T’ai Chi Chih! Joy Thru Movement (1988).

• Records audio lectures Spiritual Stories of the East Vol. 1 & 2 (1990);

• Moves back to Albuquerque, New Mexico (1993);

• Paints prolifically;

• Begins having one-man shows in New Mexico, while writing and experimenting in music theory;

• Leads Turiya meditation retreats;

• Continues recording original jazz piano compositions;

• Writes original music, gives in-depth interviews, and is technical advisor for the 13-part PBS TV series T’ai Chi Chih, Joy Thru Movement (1994), produced by KNME;

• Visits Folsom Prison, north of Sacramento, California, and speaks to a group of inmates who have been practicing T’ai Chi Chih; video of the talk is screened at teacher accreditations (May, 1998);

• Films the Seijaku instructional video (1998).

• Creates a second T’ai Chi Chih, Joy Thru Movement instructional video (2000).

• Publishes monograph collection of paintings, Tentatively Forever (2001).