I have a necessity from one moment to the next, and that is what drives me to practice. True, I learned to practice believing it could help me sit up straight and pay attention. I was wrong about that. I thought maybe if I found what was really necessary to my life, then I could get on from there. I didn’t realize that there isn’t an ...
Proprioception, From Latin Proprius, Meaning “One’s Own”, “Individual”
I am exploring how the hypnogogic states depend on the necessity of breath, how consciousness takes place spontaneously and the ability to feel opened through the place of occurrence of consciousness becomes the ability to feel the long and short of breath.
I’m talking about proprioception and the sense of location in space, and how that opens ...
Stretch at the Sacrum
My left knee was talking to me this spring and summer. I went down to Jikoji for Kobun’s memorial, and brought home the book of Kobun anecdotes and stories that Vanja Palmers put together for the sangha (what a guy!). In the book, there’s a story of how someone heard Kobun could get into the lotus without using his hands. When he was ...