I went walking with my family in the mountains today. On one of the uphills my daughter was getting a little tired. I tried to teach her one of the things I do when I'm walking uphill and start to feel tired. I make my steps shorter and get into a rhythm. That way I forget about the tiredness and my walking becomes a lot easier.
What she immediately tried to do was copy my steps, but her legs are a lot shorter. The thing is, I can teach her how to find a rhythm, I can teach her that this will make it easier, but she is the one who needed to find a rhythm that worked for her. My rhythm just wouldn't do.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Mystery
Tao called Tao is not Tao (Tao Te Ching - Lao-Tzu)
Life is the flowing and living energy which cannot be frozen into concepts and formulas. Life cannot be understood, only lived. (beatnik)
Being, by it's very nature, can't be known, so words can only give us the direction in which to look. (pg 3: One - Essential writings of non-duality - Jerry Katz)
The reality of a human being is a mystery. There is no answer that can answer it, because it is not a question in the first place. It is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. (pg 96: Tantra - the way of acceptance - Osho)
We are all manifestations of a mystic power: the power of life, which has shaped all life, and which has shaped us all in our mother's womb. And this kind of wisdom lives in us, and it represents the force of this power, this energy, pouring into the field of time and space. But it's a transcendant energy. It's an energy that comes from a realm beyond our powers of knowledge. And that energy becomes bound in each one of us - in this body - to a certain commitment.
Now, the mind that thinks, the eyes that see, they can become so involved in concepts and local, temporal tasks that we become bound up and don't let this energy flow through. The energy is blocked, and we are thrown off balance ....... So the psychological problem, the way to keep from becoming blocked, is to make yourself - and here is the phrase - transparent to the transcendant. It's as easy as that. (Pathways to Bliss - Joseph Campbell)
Life is the flowing and living energy which cannot be frozen into concepts and formulas. Life cannot be understood, only lived. (beatnik)
Being, by it's very nature, can't be known, so words can only give us the direction in which to look. (pg 3: One - Essential writings of non-duality - Jerry Katz)
The reality of a human being is a mystery. There is no answer that can answer it, because it is not a question in the first place. It is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. (pg 96: Tantra - the way of acceptance - Osho)
We are all manifestations of a mystic power: the power of life, which has shaped all life, and which has shaped us all in our mother's womb. And this kind of wisdom lives in us, and it represents the force of this power, this energy, pouring into the field of time and space. But it's a transcendant energy. It's an energy that comes from a realm beyond our powers of knowledge. And that energy becomes bound in each one of us - in this body - to a certain commitment.
Now, the mind that thinks, the eyes that see, they can become so involved in concepts and local, temporal tasks that we become bound up and don't let this energy flow through. The energy is blocked, and we are thrown off balance ....... So the psychological problem, the way to keep from becoming blocked, is to make yourself - and here is the phrase - transparent to the transcendant. It's as easy as that. (Pathways to Bliss - Joseph Campbell)
Monday, July 7, 2008
Focused Intent - The Art of Magic
There has been a drumming competition on lately called 'speed demon'. It seems to have the assumption that a very good drummer will be able to play very fast. But here's the question: is the mark of a good drummer how many strokes of the stick you can fit into a single beat, or is it how much of yourself you can put into a single stroke?
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