Meditation: at home with silence & openness

Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

—Matthew 18:3

(The Change: a simple switch from head to heart)

The kingdom of heaven is what opens up within and without when you quieten the mind and truly listen.

I AM A TREE

Rooting down to Earth
Sucking energy up

Reaching up to Heaven
Drawing energy down

The teacher teaches so the student can practise,
knowing full well that they won't.
Hoping against hope.

(So the teacher is really teaching herself.)

I’m always asking myself:
Am I doing what I came here to do?

—Gillian Allnutt

Is it possible for the social and the sacral to converge?

Straight locked legs indicate an arrogant/fearful rejection of Nature.

mind
Not what I thought you were. I thought
You were myself, a step away. But no,
You are that crazy flower in Christ’s hand.

—Donald Revell

Meditation: attending the Internal Life

the sheer joy of hard work

We are not among those who have ideas only between books, stimulated by books. Our habit is to think outdoors – walking, jumping, climbing, dancing, preferably on lonely mountains or by the sea where even the paths become thoughtful.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, Section 366

We are figments in the intending mind of God.

dojo is where we kill the ego


Dojo is two Japanese characters:
do 道 (Chinese dao) way or path
jo 場 place
So dojo means 'Place of the Dao'

The courage to do without authority.

(Requires real self-discipline.)

A maturity that values softness, delicacy, subtlety…

Weilian attention (l'attention pure) is the price of admission to the world of energy.

We can count on so few people to go the hard way with us.

—Adrienne Rich

the subversive function of the imagination

Is all we're trying to do is be in the world the way God intended.

Pull yourself together
Let yourself go

(It's all breathing)

Practise like your life depends upon it

When John Coltrane first began performing “My Favorite Things” a jazz critic somewhere transcribed a solo from a Carnegie Hall performance, then showed the transcription to Coltrane at the beginning of an interview. Coltrane looked at it long and hard, squinting as though listening to black smudges of ink that covered several pages. Then he looked up. “Can’t play it,” he said.

—Sam Hamill

Real thought is always creative & always surprises.

A sense that it's come from the muse, not from me.

Patience is the art of caring slowly.

—John Ciardi

Meditation develops spiritual resilience. 

Eventually nothing gets you down. 

Not for long anyway.

ALL HEART
belly lower heart
head upper heart

play with it  :  never force it