A student asked recently why my Zoom classes are all Riding Horse and variations thereof. Well in Taiji the first thing is sink & relax: releasing to gravity to drain out of the upper body and into the legs, and then through the legs and into the earth. Without this there is no Taiji.

The sanctuary of the heart is dark. Nothing can be seen or known there, nothing sought.

we relax chronic tensions and install a dynamic tension we call concentration

intimate & impersonal

attempts to clarify & simplify will inevitably lose detail & nuance

A good teacher is never afraid to say: I don't know. Then she can either keep mum or waffle on regardless.

A human being is God’s being temporarily clothed in human attributes. God’s being is a human being divested of its qualities.

self-awareness requires awareness of the other's awareness of me

infinity is everywhere if only we wake up

reality renders us speechless
this is astonishment

cogito ergo (hic) non sum : I think therefore I am not (here)

there was something subterranean about him, as if he had an underworld refuge

pray for peace
(start with inner peace)

dantien as seat of soul

passion & faith must run soul-deep

Think 'infinite' not as 'enormously large' but as 'endless' or, as we would say in Taiji, 'open ended.' In this sense everything bar human creations are infinite.

the emptiness of being everything at once