30 November 2023
When I used to work with my teacher, very occasionally, maybe twice a year, in the heat of a really intense moment, my legs would buckle beneath me and I would collapse. It would happen very suddenly, but I would always get the sense that it was a terrified response to an immensity that had suddenly appeared, and then as quickly disappeared. I now realise that that was Reality – a total openness – and the work is all about becoming strong and sober enough to live in that realm (or at least very close by) permanently.
29 November 2023
28 November 2023
27 November 2023
Consider a seed patient in the earth. Rain triggers growth. The seed's first act is to send a root down, gathering nutrients, so a shoot can thrust up. Gravity doesn't do the work. Gravity simply allows the seed to tell up from down.
In the human body it is the same. Dantien/mingmen is the seed. Our root actively drives down from here so our spirit can thrust up. Gravity won't do the work for you. It assists but you still have to actively drive down through the legs and into the ground. Only then can a free spirit reach up the spine for the stars.
26 November 2023
25 November 2023
24 November 2023
23 November 2023
I was born with a divine jewel
Long since filmed with dust.
This morning, wiped clean, it mirrors
Streams and mountains, without end.
Long since filmed with dust.
This morning, wiped clean, it mirrors
Streams and mountains, without end.