FLOWING WITH THE COSMOS
Wu-wei or be spontaneous in chi flow is flowing with the Cosmos
Question
Please could Sifu explain the concept of "flowing with the Cosmos"? Please could he describe what that might look like, feel like, sound like when we are flowing with the Cosmos? Could Sifu also provide any tips on how to detect when we aren’t flowing with the Cosmos, and offer suggestions for ways to get back into flow?
Matthew
Answer
When we flow with the Cosmos, we are natural, which means we are also healthy and happy.
For example, when we are tired, we rest; when we are hungry, we eat, and when we are thirsty, we drink. This is natural. This is flowing with the Cosmos.
When you eat when you are hungry, you look like eating, feel like eating, and sound like eating, especially if you make a lot of noise.
Similarly when you rest, drink or do any natural thing, i.e. you are flowing with the Cosmos, you look, feel and sound like resting, drinking or doing any natural things.
If you are not doing anything naturally, then you are not flowing with the Cosmos. You will be unhealthy and unhappy.
For example, if you are not tired, hungry or thirsty but force yourself to rest, eat or drink, you will be unhealthy and unhappy. You may not be clinically sick or actually feeling sad, but you will not be healthy and happy.
These are signs to show you not to persist on doing unnatural things. But if you persist, then you may be clinically sick and actually feeling sad.
Sometimes it may not be so easy not to do unnatural things. Sometimes you may be forced by circumstances to act unnaturally.
Day time is for work, and night time is for rest. That is natural, or flowing with the Cosmos. But some people may have to work at night, and rest in the day. That is unnatural, or not flowing with the Cosmos.
It is actually not difficult to get back to be natural, to flow with the Cosmos, but he needs much will power.
It is also unnatural, or not flowing with the Cosmos, to be sick or to be depressed. To be healthy and happy is natural, or flowing with the Cosmos.
Most people who are sick or depressed will see a doctor or a psychologist. For us in Shaolin Wahnam we practice chi kung everyday so that sickness or depression has no chance to occur.
It is also unnatural, or not flowing with the Cosmos, to continuously take medication. But some people have developed it as a habit, as they did not have the opportunity to practice genuine chi kung. Some people actually value laziness more than good health and happiness.
It is natural to be healthy and happy
The questions and answers are reproduced from the thread Questions to Grandmaster on Wudang Kungfu/Taijiquan & Zhang San Feng in the Shaolin Wahnam Discussion Forum.
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