Meditation: contemplating the mysteries

What could be more mysterious than life?

Humility, that low, sweet root,
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.

—Thomas Moore

sacred reciprocity

Weight training will change your energy in a way that Taiji could never do. With Taiji it's too easy to fake it whereas with weights it's impossible.

A relaxation
that opens up
the abyss

Meditation: sitting quietly and allowing the heart to fill with the smile of the Buddha.

If the notion of God turns you off then instead think Destiny: a Truth both calling from afar and aching to burst forth from your deepest recesses.

The truth is precisely that which we are running from.

wúxin   無心   no-mind

wúwǒ   無我   no-self

If, despite all your work, there's little progress, then maybe you haven't taken the teaching to heart.

The conventional world puts a veil over your eyes.

—Sergio Larrain

Meditation: sitting quietly and waking to the bigger picture.

wúcháng   無常   impermanence

pistēs   πίστης   faith
elpis   ἐλπίς   hope
agāpe   ἀγάπη   charity

Meditation: from fullness to emptiness.

xin  心  heart-mind

It takes two to know one.

—Gregory Bateson

Śūnyatā   Kenosis   Fanā’
(Emptiness)

There's no point helping others if they
then refuse to help themselves

There's no point listening if you then refuse to hear.

There's no point looking if you then refuse to see.

If you have a dominant ego then you are an idolater.

The big breakthrough comes when you're finally mature enough to admit your faults, own your faults, and do something about your faults.

It took me 25 years of Taiji to get to this point.

We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.

—Andrei Tarkovsky

Inside each of us there's a little E.T. aching to go home.

Relax into destiny
into who/what/where
you really are