What is Wuji?

One of my favorite words in the Chinese language...it is comprised of two characters, "wu" and "ji."

"Wu" can mean "nothingness" or "non-beingness."

"Ji" can mean "end" or "ultimate."

Wuji is that singularity of the universe, the oneness (and therefore "nothingness") from which all "things" in creation emerge. My teacher Master Duan Zhi Liang, the 93-year old Qigong/Kung Fu master living in Beijing, describes it as that place, that moment between formlessness (non-beingness) and form...he sees it as the moment God breathed live into the void. He likes to think of this as the first Qigong. It is not a past event, but a continuous moment. It is that point of creation, when we experience a revelation...it is in that instant that something comes into being from the realm of ideas...it goes the other direction too...when form dissolves into essence...when we move from the awareness of ourselves as a separate "ego" and enter the oneness of Universal awareness...

Chinese philosophy understands that all things begin as Wuji...then move to Tai Chi (Yin/Yang elements or atoms)...then move to Bagua (physical form/objects). The One becomes the Two, the Two becomes the many...