Xingyi Quan Appreciation Volume 1: Santi Shi and Dai Style's Squatting Monkey
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In Xing Yi the main standing practice is San Ti Shi –三体式 (Traditional Chinese: 三體式)
The gate to enter stillness (入靜, ru jing) lays in not doing (无为, wu wei) anything about what is experienced.
The practice of not doing is learning to give up (舍, she). Most importantly it is giving up wanting things to be different.
The practice of giving up is to neither drop nor resist (不丢不顶, bu diu bu ding).
It is not just standing there like a moron, it is completely alert as if the hair was on fire, vitally interested in what is going on and at the same time completely without unnecessary tension and striving.
Here opens the gate to true stillness. In the vital aliveness of spacious awareness where right action (正業, zheng ye) or the action of no action (无为之为, wu wei zhi wei) spontaneously (自然, ziran) arises.
There are two kinds of practice of San Ti – a static practice and a dynamic one. The dynamic one is ...