Bao wrote:Sun Lutang suggested that you should stand in wuji natural stance for at least 20 minutes before starting to move.
Why? Because you need to give yourself time to empty and sink your mind, and sink the qi and the breath.
When you start to move, your body-mind-state remains the same, you bring the same emptiness and stillness into your movements, and keep it throughout the whole form.
This is why the beginning of the form, raise hands, is so important as it's a transition from physical stillness into motion. You need to be very careful so you don't lose your sunk, empty body-mind-state.
When you have practiced like this for a while, you won't need the same amount of time to sink and make your mind blank. You should be able to just switch on this body-mind state as you want. But it will still be good to do some wuji standing before beginning the form, so you know that you don't cheat yourself, and to be careful when starting to move.
Bao wrote:Sun Lutang suggested that you should stand in wuji natural stance for at least 20 minutes before starting to move.
Why? Because you need to give yourself time to empty and sink your mind, and sink the qi and the breath.
When you start to move, your body-mind-state remains the same, you bring the same emptiness and stillness into your movements, and keep it throughout the whole form.
This is why the beginning of the form, raise hands, is so important as it's a transition from physical stillness into motion. You need to be very careful so you don't lose your sunk, empty body-mind-state.
When you have practiced like this for a while, you won't need the same amount of time to sink and make your mind blank. You should be able to just switch on this body-mind state as you want. But it will still be good to do some wuji standing before beginning the form, so you know that you don't cheat yourself, and to be careful when starting to move.
Taste of Death wrote:
When Robert Wilson performed Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape he sat at a table for 20 minutes with just the sound of the rain as his only accompaniment before he spoke the first line of the play. He wanted the audience to be "present."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3xDjrLlCCE
Subitai wrote:The good news is if your practice is correct, at the very end of your form it should be easy (or at least Easier) to truly be in a state of Wu ji. It is recommended to stay that way for as long as you wish (or can handle before your thoughts rush in)...ie No Mind, No root. It is very healthy for you mentally to let all that worldly crap that bothers you ...GO.
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