Wuji Zhan Zhuang Meditation
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Master Zhang Xuexin in the Wuji Zhan Zhuang 'standing post' meditation pose called "All Becomes One," with hands folded lightly over the dantian, the main energy center located just below the navel (same as the third chakra). During standing meditation, the body and mind stay completely relaxed, the inner eye remains focused inwardly on the dantian, and the mind is allowed to expand until it encompasses the whole body and beyond. Thoughts and emotions are not suppressed, but merely watched, like clouds passing in sky:
"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free.
Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate." -- Chuang Tzu
Wuji Zhan Zhuang Meditation
• Wuji, pronounced woo-gee, literally, "without limits"; the primal matrix • Zhan, pronounced jan, "to stand" • Zhuang, pronounced j'wong, "post" • Zhan Zhuang, "to stand like a post" • Wuji Zhan Zhuang, "to stand like a post, rooted in the primal matrix"
To remain still while moving is the secret of the internal martial arts. To develop this ability, serious Tai Chi players spend many hours in standing meditation...
(to be continued...)
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Stillness
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness. Only when there is stillness in movement can the spiritual rhythm appear which pervades heaven and earth.
— from the Caigentan, the "Vegetable Root Discourses," by Hong Zicheng
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Blessing in the Chaos
To all that is chaotic in you, let there come silence.
Let there be a calming of the clamoring, a stilling of the voices that have laid their claim on you, that have made their home in you,
that go with you even to the holy places but will not let you rest, will not let you hear your life with wholeness or feel the grace that fashioned you.
Let what distracts you cease. Let what divides you cease. Let there come an end to what diminishes and demeans, and let depart all that keeps you in its cage.
Let there be an opening into the quiet that lies beneath the chaos, where you find the peace you did not think possible and see what shimmers within the storm.
― John O’Donohue
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