Poetry does not like noise.
—Jacques Maritain
21 October 2025
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16 October 2025
If you confine the work to your hours of practice then you'll make little progress. Keep your relaxing going throughout the day and night. Feel gravity pulling at you as you walk, not just the gravity of terra firma but the subtle pull of every object you pass. Treasure your time alone. Relax (expand) into the space you enter as you willingly let the energy of that space enter you. Listen, feel – let those feelings spark the imagination. Regularly bring the awareness to the breathing – savour the air as it comes in – let the inhalation inspire you – then release into the exhale. When alone let the eyes relax – go out of focus – and feel the energy flowing through and around you. When driving hum, chant or sing rather than listen to the radio…
15 October 2025
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13 October 2025
Stop activity, return to stillness,
And that stillness is even more active.
Each session starts with gravity and ends in levity.
12 October 2025
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09 October 2025
The sleep of the ancients was polyphasic – a first sleep early in the night, and a second sleep in the early morning are separated by a period of nocturnal activity. There are two nights: a night for sleeping, and a night for keeping watch, and two days: a day for working and a day for slumbering.
—Matthew Nini
08 October 2025
A few months after beginning to teach here a neighbour joined my class. She immediately made a good connexion with both the Taiji and with me so I suggested she accompany me to one of Nitsan's classes. She liked the class very much and at the end asked Nitsan if she could attend regularly. He said of course so she took the details of times. Nitsan then asked if she wasn't going to enquire as to the price. She replied: "No, I want to study with you and I will pay whatever you ask." Nitsan smiled and said: "May I give you a hug?"
07 October 2025
To achieve mastery in Taiji one must work like a Trojan – hours each day – strengthening legs & waist, relaxing body & mind – repeating the Form until it becomes second nature. Mastery just means that your strength, relaxation and mental probity have softened you enough to enter the world of energy or mind-at-large. Now great care must be taken to put quality over quantity.
05 October 2025
Loneliness has its own networks of cure. Its closest ally, even by-product, is meditation.
—Sumana Roy
04 October 2025
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02 October 2025
I remember once discussing Descartes' Cogito with my teacher. We agreed it needed to be replaced. I suggested Ezra Pound's Amo ergo sum which apparently graced his personal letterhead. John said that Sentio ergo sum would be better. I feel therefore I am.
It's all in the feeling – in the heart. Feel the world rather than observe it. Empathy – togetherness in feeling. Feel the world then feel the world feeling you.
It's all in the feeling – in the heart. Feel the world rather than observe it. Empathy – togetherness in feeling. Feel the world then feel the world feeling you.