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The process of emerging we call hope. It is located in the thymus, and indicates intense aliveness. It is shared by all living things, some more than others, whereas inanimate objects, especially manmade ones, completely lack it. It is really a spirited relationship with time – urging time on rather than hindering its flow.
Internal work hinges on the ability to turn off the stream of commentary in the head. Notice that it stops naturally when we engage the present moment with intensity, usually because of interest, excitement, pain, danger, emotion. This is why we suggest cultivating and nurturing a sense of wonder – a feeling that you are ever emerging fresh and unprejudiced into the world, like a snake squeezing out of its old skin.
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The word wild is like a gray fox trotting off through the forest, ducking behind bushes, going in and out of sight. Up close, first glance, it is "wild"—then farther into the woods next glance it's "wyld" and it recedes via Old Norse villr and Old Teutonic wilthijaz into a faint pre-Teutonic ghweltijos which means, still, wild and maybe wooded (wald) and lurks back there with possible connections to will, to Latin silva (forest, sauvage), and to the Indo-European root ghwer, base of Latin fetus (feral, fierce), which swings us around to Thoreau's "awful ferity" shared by virtuous people and lovers.
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If you put your normal mind in dantien then it will always wander with your concentration. The secret is to cultivate a mind that wants to settle and cohere in dantien. Such a mind is quiet, tough, ruthless and detached, especially from feelings for/of self. A mind that never runs away (with itself).