…the last few days I have been reminded of Chen Man-Ch’ing’s practice description for the stage of man, mainly: relax from the shoulders to the wrist, from the hip joint to the heel, and from the sacrum to the headtop (in the Ben Lo Martin Inn translation, this is “relax the ligaments”; I don’t think that’s ...
asleep/awake, from Tao Bums
The asleep/awake thing I still believe is the placement of consciousness by the two autonomous respirations.
Sense organ/sense object-consciousness-impact-feeling is the placement of consciousness by the two autonomic respirations, with perhaps different emphasis of sense waking or sleeping, and the in-between hours are the traditional times of practice. ...
response to question, from cat on Tao Bums
You are welcome to post my comments anywhere you feel is appropriate. I confess, I copied them to my blog. I believe in the vocabulary I have developed to describe these things (of course, it’s bits and pieces of the Pali Cannon, Tai-Chi teachings, and cranial-sacral theory, so I’m just the collector of it), and I have come to understand ...