I, too, feel a deep sense of gratitude to the Zen teachers who came to this country, and to some of the teachers who became authorized to teach here and have kept the practice going for anyone who is interested. The real question is how do we inspire ourselves to sit the cross-legged pose for thirty minutes or forty, once or twice or several times ...
Storing Ch’i in the Tan-T’ien (Response to Drew Hempel, from The Tao Bums)
I guess the question for us both is how the chi comes to be “stored” in the tan-t’ien. Chunyi Lin seems to encourage you to think the long sitting will work the trick for you; his remark about looking at how long someone can sit the lotus to see if they’ve mastered energy says it all, in that regard.
I realize that there can ...
Autogenic training and Nishijima’s SNS-PNS balance
Element, thanks for the link on autogenic training:
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogenic_training)
Some great history there. I didn’t use the “warm” patter but I sure used the “arm is heavy”, etc. bit, for self-hypnosis in high school!
Bloke, yer right, well-put, Nishijima doesn’t elaborate on how his understanding ...