steve

Very nice to hear from you @Earl Grey! I appreciate you sharing your experiences and insights and I wish you continued growth and success on your path. See you around, for a while! Best, steve

Thank you all for your kind words and thoughts. I feel your love and support and value your friendship.

Thank you all very much, my father has been very ill and passed early this morning. I value all of your good wishes and friendship.

Just Ok, I don’t have much energy to debate or discuss at the moment. Some tough personal stuff happening right now. ✌🏽

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Quantum mechanics, subatomic physics, the study and applications of light, time reversal, complex numbers, string theory all, among many other areas of inquiry, go beyond the gross physical.

sure it does limited yes, but the methodology is sound and allows for growth

Nice to see you @Encephalon

I'm also curious, do you practice a neigong system currently or in the past?

We have never been separate from wuji for an instant. To conceptualize it as something distant or only occurring before birth or after death or at any point in time is misleading, imo. It is independent of time and space and ever-present as the undifferentiated, unmanifest source of all. Taiji and wuji are not separate in time and space, that is a misunderstanding, imo.

This may qualify as one of those unpopular opinions but I think people are more likely to harm themselves with sitting meditation than with standing meditation, both physically and mentally.

Chess warfare! Hikaru tossing Gukesh's king into the audience at a recent match. Truth is, it's more about entertainment than anything else.

I think if we stand simply for the sake of standing, with no expectations or demands on ourselves, there is little risk of harm and it can be a wonderful practice, even for beginners. If we stand to reach some objective, with a certain set of expectations. that is when we tend to cause problems for ourselves. I find standing practice to be a great way to introduce people to meditation. It is less challenging in many ways than seated meditation and has additional physical benefits.

Agreed, in practice we stand for a time before we begin and after we end. My teacher encouraged standing for as long as possible after completing the form, 5 minutes minimum.

I think to define wuji simply as stillness, as opposed to dynamic, whether in practice or ontology, is misleading. Wuji is not “other than” or “opposed” to anything else, it is better expressed as undifferentiated, imo, not static. I certainly allow the body to move if it arises, standing quietly before or after the form or zhan zhuang. Taiji expresses motion vs stillness, their mutual arising both in form and meaning. Wuji embraces and does not favor ANY position relative to any other. All is completed and yet nothing is done.