Rooting

Your real root is not with the ground but with your essential nature, and more importantly the connexion that essential nature has with the divine – an aspect we call destiny. To begin with in Tai Chi we root into the earth because the process of developing that root through courageous relaxation is the best model available for the beginning of the process of rooting into what deeply thrusts from our inner recesses. If we remain obsessed with the earth though, our work starts to go around in circles and ultimately lacks soul, spirit and compassion. We must be constantly vigilant for what it is that thrusts us into the next stage – the next world indeed – the one where everything we have gained seems to have no function or purpose, other than our capacity for the unknown.