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In Bagua’s Mountain Palm Change we begin to learn about stillness. Tai Chi on the other hand, develops stillness much earlier, or it might be more accurate to say that you aren’t really doing Tai Chi movement if you don’t understand how it creates stillness. Stillness is an advanced stage of both arts, but I think Tai Chi is more inherently balanced than Bagua. In the end, they end up at the same place, but Bagua’s organization is more sophisticated and therefor its method for achieving the same goal takes longer and is likewise more sophisticated.
My latest theory is that Bagua’s 16, which includes the 8 yin palms, brings in and emphasizes the balance that Tai Chi inherently develops. Until then, Bagua is more focused on the yang side mechanism and is less balanced. Once stillness is understood, Bagua can take stillness as far or further than Tai Chi.
no stillness without non-stillness
non-stillness balances stillness
stillness balances non-stillness
So really not doing Tai Chi is doing Tai Chi!
Emptiness is Form,
Form is Emptiness,
Emptiness is Emptiness,
Form is Form.
In Module 12 video 17 at 5 minutes in, Bruce talks about the yin and yang of the I Ching which is the yin and yang of 8 which equals 16. This is just another way of saying what I had theorized. In Bagua you first learn the yang side then you learn the yin side. When you start to use both, you start to understand why the Taoist were so interested in balance.
no yin without yang
yang balances yin
yin balances yang
So really not doing Tai Chi is doing Tai Chi!
Perfect balance is Form
Form is perfectly balanced
Perfect balance is Perfect balance of yin and yang
Form is perfectly balanced yin and yang
BTW, this little riddle of sorts tells you how to access the outside. Go in. To quote Bruce, “You can only go outside as far as you can go inside.” The Wind Palm, at least the way Bruce presented it in the BMP, seems to use the center of the palm to begin finding how the inside connects to the etheric body. I’m not yet convinced that you actually go out, but I’m sure you go in.
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