Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.

practice restraint in naming the world

We tend to consider illness and injury as bad – the consequence and indication of something wrong. But in this game nothing is bad and nothing is wrong. Everything is meaningful and everything is useful and everything is helpful.

Something needs to lighten otherwise you'll collapse.

Yield and attack. Two complimentary modes of being (in the world). Attack is extension – spine strengthening and arching to extend energy straight out into the world. Yield is intimate – drawing the world in for a hug and a huddle.

to accept the unknown with equanimity, with care

not only are most words lacking but, above all, grammar

Something needs to soften otherwise you'll break.

Unfortunately, it's possible to get everything wrong. So the good student is ever suspicious of even her own endeavours, and ever vigilant for any clue or insight as to how things could be done better.

The best way to get out of the head is to get into the legs. Sink.

early bus to town for teachings better 
follow the drumming woodpecker into the woods

a mode of elastic fluidity

The good student never finds herself at a loose end. There's always work to be done. Every moment, a moment of practice. Discipline is exercised in resting.

a soothful abiding

Each creature a veritable miracle. A coming in of an outside world and a going out of an inside world. In Taiji we investigate what manner of transformation is taking place; how one affects the other; how to harmonize and adapt; how to yield.

to awaken we must experience first that wonder