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Cheng Man-Ch’ing gave his students some advice for the practice of T’ai Chi:
… The whole body’s weight rests on only one leg. If two legs equally carry it, this is double-weightedness. When the weight is transferred, the sacrum and the upper back must be kept upright in the middle. Then you will not lose your equilibrium. Continue reading ““The Millstone Turns but the Axle Does Not Turn””
On a website devoted to discussions of the early Buddhist texts, I found a passage and a comment:
Bāhuna, the Realized One has escaped from ten things, so that he lives unattached, liberated, his mind free of limits. What ten? Form … feeling … perception … choices … consciousness … rebirth … old age … death … suffering … defilements … Suppose there was a blue water lily, or a pink or white lotus. Though it sprouted and grew in the water, it would rise up above the water and stand with no water clinging to it. In the same way, the Realized One has escaped from ten things, so that he lives unattached, liberated, his mind free of limits.
(AN 10.81, tr. Bhikkyu Sujato; emphasis added by “travlingwonderer”) Continue reading ““Something Perfect in Itself””
My friend Linda Toren has a radio show on station KQBM out of West Point, California, called “A Way With Words”. Here’s the way she introduced her show for Wednesday, May 13th:
Welcome to “A Way with Words”, a program dedicated to poetry, prose, literature, nonfiction, lyrics and the celebration of thoughts and language. I am your host, Linda Toren, from West Point California.
Our studio sits on the grounds of the Blue Mountain Coalition for Youth and Families, which sits on the unceded land of the Central Sierra Miwok people.
I’m having a conversation, sharing a conversation today with my friend Mark Foote, who’s published a book called A Natural Mindfulness.
If you’d like to hear the conversation, she has the show posted on Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/program-148-final-13-may-26-mark-foote-zen
Our conversation is the first fifty minutes or so of the show, after which she has several short clips from various sources about Buddhism.
My thanks to Linda, for inviting me on the show and for being such a gracious host.