My teacher, a Tai Chi Master and Traditional Chinese Medicine doctor, first introduced me to this question, "Who am I?" At first, when I began taking qigong classes I noticed he would also say, "I am air, I am water, I am light." He would sometimes ask the class this question, "Who am I?" Invariably someone would answer with those formulaic words, air, water, light. I didn't have a better answer, but I thought to myself that this couldn't be the answer he wants. What does he want us to grasp?

 

Dr. Wu teaches the way he practices. He shows you through postures, through movement. He doesn't try to tell you. He is playful but he says enigmatic things, if he says much at all. Become the white paper; do nothing; be empty; it is simple not easy. But what does it all mean? I have learned that I can't make sense out of this through thinking which is a real challenge to my Western mind. I had to begin to listen to my body and how I felt doing Tai Chi and Qigong, at peace and energized. Whenever I try to nail down an answer it sends me into my head and I can overthink masterfully. I feel better when I practice Tai Chi and Qigong. The answers had to come out of that truth.