I once asked a Master of Taiji quan under a willow tree

I once asked a Master of Taiji quan after practising pushing hands

under a willow tree (really ...)

in the cold and snow and ice of a bavarian winter zero Fahrenheit

for his

Summary of the Way (Dao)

He said:

- fan ben (back to the root)

- wu wei [er wu bu wei]

(doing nothing but nothing is left undone according / in line with Dao and De)

- ziran (self-so, so of its own, natural, spontaneous)