所謂身有平準,腰似車輪,氣如火葯拳如彈,靈機微動鳥難騰,更以心小膽大,面善心惡,靜似書生,動若龍虎,總以虛實無定,變化無蹤為準則,自能得其神妙之變化,故郭雲深大法師常云:有形有意都是假,技到無心始見奇,蓋即指此也。

王薌齋


"It is said: “The body is like scale, the waist like a wheel, the energy like gunpowder, the fists like bullets. The spirit acts with such subtlety, a bird could not escape.” Furthermore, let your thoughts shrink and your courage enlarge. Have a benevolent countenance but a ruthless mentality. Be in stillness like a scholar, in motion like a dragon or tiger.
Always the standards should be:
– Let emptiness and fullness be unfixed.
– Adapt, but without complying.
Then naturally you will be able to obtain the art’s ingenuity of transformation. Grandmaster Guo Yunshen often said: “To have a ‘shape’ or ‘intention’ is in either case a contrivance. Once your skill attains the level of unconscious action [‘no mind’], then you will notice wonders.” His words indicate these standards.”"

Excerpt from the translation by Paul Brennan, to be found in the Brennan Translation blog.

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