{"id":2115,"date":"2023-03-11T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T21:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2023-03-11T13:33:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T21:33:00","slug":"emotions-are-the-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenmudra.com\/zazen-notes\/?p=2115","title":{"rendered":"“Emotions Are the Path”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Illustration,
(From \u201cThe Secret of the Golden Flower\u201d, a Chinese Daoist classic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From \u201cEmotions Are the Path\u201d, on \u201cThe Dao Bums\u201d online forum site:<\/p>\n

My emotional state usually has a sort of positive uplift to it, if I’ve taken care of my health.\u00a0 If the positive uplift goes missing, then I find I need to revisit recent experience, oftentimes to review what belongs to me and what belongs to someone else, so far as the intention in the events that have transpired.<\/p>\n

At the same time, I realize that the sense of a positive upwelling in my being is in part a function of my posture and carriage.\u00a0 It’s been a life-long endeavor for me, to realize\u00a0the relaxed posture and carriage inherent in my being, at least from time to time.\u00a0 To the extent that I have succeeded, I feel a little more at home in my body.<\/p>\n

My long-term memory has always been poor.\u00a0 Last night and this morning I realized that maybe it’s not so much that my long-term memory is poor, as it is that I didn’t feel at home in my body much, growing up.\u00a0 There’s a kind of uneasiness\u00a0present with\u00a0the memories, and that makes it difficult for me to access them.<\/p>\n

Folks seldom talk about kinesthesiology on Dao Bums, and I can understand that.\u00a0\u00a0I’ve had very good fortune to have been able to find the studies and the cases (many of the cases being just practical kinesthesiology) that guide my current practice.\u00a0\u00a0I want to say that there’s a reason those Renaissance figures we all admire secretly dissected corpses (or in the case of Gautama, sat in the graveyard and noted the stages of decomposition).<\/p>\n

I would have to say that overcoming the uneasiness I felt in my youth was my principal motivation to undertake a practice.\u00a0 That I can see the uneasiness in my early memories now, I think speaks to the greater ease that I experience these days, and I owe a large part of that to the studies and the cases.\u00a0\u00a0As difficult as it is to discuss the way the stretch of ligaments give rise to activity, or the way the displacement of fascia supports the spine, I think that’s a part of emotions as a path too, especially in consideration of all the ways these physiological phenomena have been alluded to in the literature over millennia.<\/p>\n

Emotions as road signs, on the path of life.\u00a0 Is that the same as emotions as a path?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From \u201cEmotions Are the Path\u201d, on \u201cThe Dao Bums\u201d online forum site: My emotional state usually has a sort of positive uplift to it, if I’ve taken care of my health.\u00a0 If the positive uplift goes missing, then I find I need to revisit recent experience, oftentimes to review what belongs to me and what … <\/p>\n

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