On Wuji and why I love it. (Stand like a tree)

In the first months in Nine Dragon Baguazhan, I often skipped doing wuji. I thought "what was the point of it?" I mean you are just standing there. I just would get to embracing posture. Wuji just made no sense to me at all. But one day, I was sort of going through the motions of standing in wuji because I was supposed to, and the breathing, the settling, the music all started to work it settling on me.

At any rate I started to feel extremely comfortable just standing in wuji. The settling progressed and I just did not want to move out of wuji. I wanted to just "stand like a tree." as Dr. Painter has said. In the following weeks my feeling for it had completely reversed. Wuji and settling became the thing I looked forward to the most. It was like settling into a warm bath--a bath I didn't want to come out of. It was my personal place, here nothing can harm me. I am slow time. It takes a year to add a ring. Ther is nothing to time, it is the moment, it is stability, it is connected to the earth, nothing can harm me. The arguments of the day spin and swirl over me. I let them pass.

Steadily, I began to wonder if it what I thought was meaningless, was perhaps the most important posture. Wuji carried me, wuji held me. There I was beautifully balanced ridgepole spine. I could feel it balanced and plumb, and stable with the earth's gavity, my legs with just a touch of "squishy" flex now feeling as solid as barnstones, a century they have been here leaving their mark in the clay, and no tornado or storm can move them. my head expanding up--beautiful opposing forces. And there's more...