You know I’m big on waking up and falling asleep lately, but I can say that it helps me to encourage forward and back between the hamstrings and quads for stretch in the ilio-tibial band, and stretch in the ilio-tibial band can cause the sartorius and gluteus to turn the pelvis. About then I think, well, really all this action can be generated ...
The difficulty of practice, a note to Apech- from Tao Bums
I understand what you are saying about the difficulty of an intentional practice. I was doing a set of shape-mind (xing-yi) exercises that I learned from a book for a long time, and then last fall I just stopped doing them.
I still rely on the sense of location in consciousness, and relaxation. I remind myself that if I stay with consciousness and ...
email to Adam Tebbe, editor of Sweeping Zen
I just read the interview with Scott Edelstein, which I enjoyed- interesting to hear the news, as it were.
I used to go hear Kobun speak at the Santa Cruz zendo in the 70’s, when I was a student at UCSC. One thing I remember Kobun said was “take your time with the lotus”. I have finally learned to sit the lotus, although my ...