Returning to the earlier post on reactivity and pants. For starters, I believe it is never really about them pants or whatever becomes a trigger for our reactivity, although in the situation when it actually occurs it can be very hard to see it. We so much want to believe that the root of our [...]
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If it’s not about them pants, what is it about?
Posted in Response, practice, tagged communication, needs, NVC on October 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Mental yoga a là Dogen: what did the monk see?
Posted in Response, practice, tagged Dogen, Genjokoan, practice on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is a challenge to be working on Genjokoan and it’s inspiring to do that with the teacher that taggs on our sleeves to remind us to avoid the Zen snare of dry, conceptual understanding and encourages us to “have a keen and sensitive busshit detector to do this work “.
Once again – the koan [...]
The door makes no promise
Posted in Mind, brain, practice, tagged hope, present on September 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have started listening to the program “Meditations that can change your life” by Rick Hanson and Rick Mendius that they recorded for Sounds True. Both are interested in neurology and Buddism. It appears our brain is biologically biased towards negativity to ensure our survival and we tend to remember and overestimate the importance the negative [...]
That business of the edge
Posted in Relationships, Response, practice, tagged edge, Relationships on September 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Before I start working my edge it would be helpful to find it first. What is my edge then? What is an edge in the context of a spiritual practice? The idea of looking for one at the edge of the known resonates with me. The edge is where I no longer have a script [...]
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 »
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
One of the things [...]
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 [...]
Charter for Compassion. Will you listen?
On November 12, thousands of people across the globe will listen together.A Personal Note From Irisha
Welcome to AR blog! What matters to me in this brief life is the exploration of what it is like to be human, learning to be present in my own life without the constant struggle - "to feel yet not to suffer" as Adrienne Rich wrote - and getting to know how my mind works, who and what I am underneath the layers of conditioning.
Here I reflect on how to be awake in the activities of life itself and on anything that has to do with practice on and off the cushion. I am happy to share the blog space with others who feel they have something to say about their practice.Reading
Primate's Memoir: Love, Death and Baboons in East Africa by Robert M Sapolsky
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I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am untrue.
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