The life of an individual is the life of his body… A person who doesn’t breath deeply reduces the life of his body… If he doesn’t feel fully he narrows the life of his body… In effect, most people go through life on a limited budget of energy and feeling.
Alexander Lowen, Bioenergetics
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Towards embodied spiritual life: embodied practicies (1)
Posted in Body work, practice, tagged Body work, embodiment, movement, Shingon on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Spinning world of desires
Posted in Body work, Buddhism, Meditation, practice, tagged Kabir, resistance, zazen on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since I started doing sitting meditation one of my legs (or both) would inevitably fall asleep and for the most part the sitting would evolve around staying with those sensations in the body. I know it is not harmful for my health and would probably pass with time so I just accepted it as [...]
Same me but different (2): body think
Posted in Body work, Mind, Response, tagged Body work, Dogen, numbness, Response, Thomas J. Leonard on November 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As in the above mentioned story my own experience, too, unfolded on a road and in a somewhat chaotic and exotic for an outsider environment. The unusual situation made it easier for me to no longer be clinging to the old image of me and what I possibly could or could not do.
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