Beginner

I can feel them as you write and recall. For me this is the Greater speaking…the earth in all its phases that flooded me as a child in feelings.

Greatest sings to me. It is more about sound. More about music. The matrix underneath the feelings which are so transient whereas the bone vibrating sounds seem constant in comparison.Like the…[Read more]

Hmm…speling not my bset eithre and i don;t no glnee. no escuze

Thanks for the patience you are taking. I will keep up as reading writings from various perspectives with different language makes one realize the terrain is never the map- its just some maps are more suited to the times one is going through. The culture, history, one’s…[Read more]

Hi j,

Not being from the school of chaos magic I felt a bit on the sidelines. I want to see if I got it.

First let me say your voice and fluid expressive style is perfect for just such a blog. I read it through just to be entertained by the ease you peck the keys with.

SO, the idea you cracked open was the very act of imagining…[Read more]

What I read is your reaction to the hip-ification of new age ideas such as affirmation and we are all perfect right now. Oprah and Yoga Journal and endless talk with little fruit.

Some of your concern is for an image out of our control. No one involved in a spiritual practice is in it to feel good. The peaceful reflection on the pond that…[Read more]

drop into the kitchen and say hello…barry

“As I recall from young age, the sexual contact was NOT abusive, only years later when I became old enough I started to create ‘guilt’ and ‘fear’ and ‘shame’ for something that was happened years earlier.”

Wendy, this took a few days to sink in not as memories for me as much as what I do when I am with children and others now and how quickly…[Read more]

“body (to) some sort of vehicle for your multidimensional mind..”

yes…this resonates to some degree. Maybe not vehicle as much as more accessible place to explore with. I am not sure what upsets you. It seems your sense of beingness is different or your approach.

There’s room- I’m listening.

Are any of us in this day and age born…[Read more]

That guy sounds my age too. Thanks for the reminder.

There are times in life when breakdown is important and appropriate- I am finding this out. Perhaps your friend didn’t know when to ease out of that intensity or have a method skillful enough so his present was enhanced.

To learn how that mechanism of being in breakdown works…[Read more]

Trunk, thanks for sharing that.

It reminds me of my first child’s term. My wife and I were very careful about food and environment studying with Michio Kushi at the time who had a very practical taoist viewpoint.

However no matter how much we tried my wife couldn’t stop herself from reading one of the most bloody and tragic books about…[Read more]

Thanks Chris you reminded me about this entry which I read late at night and wanted to answer too. I also appreciate how you are responding to blog entries as this is something I have wanted to do but haven’t.

Yeah Steven I loved the way you described your response to this force entering inside of you after sending the smiling out.

I was…[Read more]

The only cultural equivalent I can remember is the Little Train that Could. I think he was a small caboose which when needed had to pull the entire length of train himself.

But I prefer being called out as the Calimero.

These past days I have this incredible lightness of being. I leave in 4 days and already feel the power that comes…[Read more]

Now here is an instance of therapy at the right time for breakthrough. I hope your wife recovered- sounds like she did in her own way.

Interesting take on this feeling of abuse. With a lot of the public secrecy removing around this (and creating weird public boundaries of adults and children-ultra fear)many people do seem to imagine abuse…[Read more]

I have always come back to this poem whether sleeping alone or apart as it makes me be in wonder about the nature of relationships especially the ones we choose to have side by side.

The Third Body

A man and a woman sit near each other, and they do not long
at this moment to be older, or younger, nor…[Read more]

I got into the habit a long time ago of practicing upon waking. And waking earlier and earlier according to my responsibilities. WIth a cup of liquid, a quick neti pot and flush of toilet I am on my own. Before dawn is best for me. But you know what that means…about the night before…bar

While you are asking a question about pacing which will be different for each of us and different each day, I have another take.

If chi kung is about cultivating energy and not relegated to the forms of movement what better place to pay attention than at the kitchen table?

There are so many ways to bring this awareness to food from…[Read more]

Wendy, what you described is exactly what I was saying (believe it or not (:…and I appreciate where you take your practice..bar

Perhaps it is the place you also protect yourself the most? See if you can ingest the suffering coming to you into and through the spinal channel for release and opening. Take it to your weak most protected numb areas. ( It strikes me too now that you have asked energies through me are moving in your direction for you to use or not(; Barry

Mat,

This doesn’t sound as much a secret system as one customized for each student. I respect that and in some ways envy that relationship and in other ways don’t.

As the Healing Tao is the only taoist system I have applied myself too my response was an aha based on the formulas of this approach according to what you are being…[Read more]

“This when combined and balanced with qi and shen cultivation completelly balances the body and allows it to continually regenerate itself. ”

QI cultivation….micro orbit and deeper channels?

Shen cultivation… Fusion and alchemy?