In the course of conversation, I put forward to a practitioner of medical Qigong that the experience of qi (chi) takes place in a state between waking and sleeping. He replied that he had once been in a lab hooked up to instruments while he practiced, and the folks watching the dials affirmed that he went through the first three stages of sleep with ...
Remembering How to Breathe
I’ve read that people who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease die when they finally forget how to breathe.
It’s taken me all of my adult life so far to experience action out of stretch, and action out of the distinction of sense without the exercise of volition. As far as I can tell, it’s all remembering how to breathe, as ...
Soto Zen and the Left Knee (Reply from Hardcorezen.info)
You may have a problem taking me seriously because I don’t have lineage. So far I don’t feel I’m up to pursuing it; I’m still working on my lotus. Hopefully you won’t dismiss my remarks simply because after 40 years I have found a way to sit the lotus, and you have decided that it has cost you the health of your knees ...