Birth was the death of him. (Beckett)
Taiji mind: awake, attentive, alert. Neither desire nor need to know. Knowledge unnecessary clutter.
Keep the mind on the job. If I manage that, and keep repeating the exercise, I will be taken, via central equilibrium, into heightened awareness, into spirit. If my mind wanders at all, I won't. I will be simply wasting time.
As dantian contracts into the here & now – the local – the mind expands into the ever-increasing void. Condensation & evaporation.
RESPECT: the proverbial second glance
LISTENING: our first act of compassion
The problem with human beings is that very early on we learnt how to cheat.
Is all we're trying to do in this game is wake up. So simple, so natural, so easy. So why don't we? Because we don't really want to.
Space peppered with spirit.
Truth is infinite and of the Void.
Knowledge is finite and of the World.
a fart fraught with meaning (Beckett)
When the teacher gives an instruction you cannot understand, a part of you hasn't woken up yet.
Paradox is the rule, not the exception.
Mind in dantian. When it wanders off just bring it back.
Ever feel suspicious there's a bigger picture we're not quite getting?
From a certain point on, there is no more turning back. This point must be reached.
—Franz Kafka
Von einem gewissen Punkt an gibt es keine Rückkehr mehr. Dieser Punkt ist zu erreichen.
Humble literally means of the ground, earth, soil, dirt, dust
Bene qui latuit bene vixit
Peeling away the scabs of conditioning, worry & ambition, to reveal the truth – a gentle naked spark of awareness.
Ward off: turn aside something threatening; deflect; ward off a blow, trying to ward off a cold (Merriam-Webster)
I am an archaeologist of morning
What spoils people is thinking (they have a choice)
We don't experience reality, we experience a world.
A world is what we turn reality into with our minds.
The ground is our felt-sense of support and stability that lies beneath the body, and therefore our deepest ground is underground. There are different levels to this sense of being grounded. On one level—the most obvious one—we feel rooted in and connected to the earth. Our bodies are earth-bodies, and we are able to feel this earthy connection. Another level, less frequented, is archetypal.
—John Prendergast
A shift from economy to ecology.
From economics to ecologics.
