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While listen to a taoist lineage holder he mentioned that Baguazhang didn't have standing methods. He said bagua has static arm postures. If I understood right most of the bagua postures when done correctly direct the qi to desired locations. ...not really building chi, he said in bagua hte dan tian is for mixing yin/yang lower/upper preheaven/heaven. That is the unification of heaven and man in baguazhang. When both upper and lower halves are connected. My question is, since traditional baguazhang doesn't have standing, does this mean we shoudln't do it? Wang Shujin done it and in Kent Howards Linked Palm DVD he mentions primordial standing, however in Yang Jwing Ming and Master Liang Shou Yu's Baguazhang Theory and Application they make no mention of standing meditation. Would it be counter productive? I can only see benefits from proper ZZ postures. Not to mention my favorite, the Kunlun standing double vortex wave that Zerostao showed me,