This book title says more about meditation than many a long treatise:

LINGERING
WITH THE
SCENT OF TIME

(In the East sessions are timed by burning a stick of incense)

Relax the mind and feel levity as fine champagne bubbles tickling up you.

Do not let your possessions possess you.

Most have no interest in Truth. They believe what they want to believe to justify and preserve their way of life.

Relax the body and feel gravity as a soft rain trickling down you.

Polite society requires we hold ourselves in (restraint, self-control) so much so we don't realise we're doing it and take that state as our natural state. But this is the tension we need to let go if we want our Taiji to be anything more than polite posturing.

An ethics

first & foremost

of balance

The barrage of words in the head is a firewall we erect between us and experience.

Meditation: attending the letting go of all accretion until you're pure consciousness

A mature & developed heart is brimming with love & gratitude.

Live gently, frugally & compassionately.

The word frugal (not given to excess, temperate, sober, simple) comes from Latin frux meaning fruit. The sense of living within one's means and within the planet's means. And this is my major beef with the bourgeoisie – we consume far far more than our fair share.

Relax and you will find God.  Or, maybe, more accurately, God will find you.

Learn to stretch time
Learn to slip time

Meditation: simply coming back to base

Each stage we hope is the last is just another foothill

When the mind lightens and stops thinking the heart breathes a sigh of relief.

GRAVITY IS OF THE MATERIAL/EXTERNAL WORLD
LEVITY IS OF THE SPIRITUAL/INTERNAL WORLD
ENERGY BRIDGES THE TWO

The most commonplace truth, when it floods the whole soul, is like a revelation.

—Simone Weil

An education is not what they tell you but what you find out for yourself.

The more gentle the forces

the stronger the energy

The agitated mind is a reflexion (reflex/reflection) of the anguished heart. When the heart is at peace then there is no mind as such just a vast ocean of awareness that the heart is part of. This is the kind of insight that only comes through meditation.

rising
steam
like
light

↑LEVITY↑

☯︎

↓GRAVITY↓

soft
like
ice
melting

Soften, relax, quieten the mind and the heart will rejoice and slowly begin to bloom.

I can only teach poets.

—John Kells

By poets he didn't mean people who write poetry, necessarily, but those who live poetically – live through & for the magic of the creative spirit.

The artist stands back from the finished work and exclaims: That's not me!

drawn together
torn asunder

Any art work, far more than being a technical work of representation, is a work of magic.