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Could anyone explain wu ji in terms of bagua circle walking? There are a few things I presume but I’m not sure how it goes together…
1) Your body is completely relaxed such that you feel no tension
2) Your chi is completely relaxed so that you can’t feel that either (which begs the question of whether it’s a good thing or not to feel your chi, as feeling it could be the result of tension?)
3) Your mind is completely empty of thought as any thought is a yin or yang action.Stillness in movement doesn’t make sense to me yet. In my mind I see that you have to have intent to walk the circle, but if you have intent then you’re not in between yin and yang but it’s rather one of the two.
Do you mean wu wei?
I don’t think so. I’m referring to complete emptiness and the space inbetween yin and yang.
Wu wei might be how it’s done though. Perhaps moving using wu wei can result in wu ji. I still think you must have some sort of intent in wu wei though. Even when we’re doing movements without thinking I would imagine there is intent behind the scenes. Perhaps the “behind the scenes” intent is not something we have to empty? Or maybe stillness doesn’t relate to intent at all?
I’m going to have to defer to someone who knows about this. Bruce has made a lot of references to the heart/mind and acting with spontaneity out of wu wei. He talks about tai chi as the source of all yin and yang in the Tao te Ching meditation program, but I don’t recall a mention of wu ji in a Bagua context. I could have missed it. I look forward to hearing from our colleagues about this.
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