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If it’s not about them pants, what is it about?

Posted in Response, practice, tagged , , on October 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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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Mental yoga a là Dogen: what did the monk see?

Posted in Response, practice, tagged , , 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 [...]

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The door makes no promise

Posted in Mind, brain, practice, tagged , 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 [...]

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That business of the edge

Posted in Relationships, Response, practice, tagged , 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 [...]

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Towards embodied spiritual life: embodied practicies (1)

Posted in Body work, practice, tagged , , , 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 [...]

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Spinning world of desires

Posted in Body work, Buddhism, Meditation, practice, tagged , , 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 [...]

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