31 December 2009
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26 December 2009
Finding center is about realising that I don't need to apologise for being here : I have an absolute right to the space I inhabit and therefore since I am alive that is vibrating I have not only the right but the responsibility to affect my environment and everything in it with the fact of my presence that is my energy : things around me should sing my tune as I theirs.
25 December 2009
24 December 2009
God is the deep intelligence – the depth – pervading the vast web of connexion that is existence / universe / cosmos. When a system of connected entities reaches a certain size then the energetic resonance of the multitudinous connexions naturally harmonizes and coheres into what we could call intelligence. An intelligent system (being) possesses strategies for self-preservation and self-renewal, and these involve remaining whole – holding onto the component parts. The problem here is that the intelligent systems we are members of – families and societies – will naturally hold us back from breaking free. Hence the Tibetan adage that our greatest enemies are our nearest and dearest. What we often fail to realise is that ego is also an intelligent system that contains – possesses – us. As, of course, is spirit, but in a very different way.
23 December 2009
Inspired by John Cage's experience, I sat in an anechoic chamber for five hundred hours over a period of two years and listened to the sounds of my own body. I began to correlate different states of consciousness with the different sounds of my nervous system. Being a trained musician, I noticed that the high-pitched sounds of my nervous system consisted of several sounds in different intervals. Then one day I brought two tuning forks and tapped them. Immediately I observed that the sound of my nervous system came into resonance with the sound of the tuning forks. It was then I realized that people can be tuned like musical instruments.
John Beaulieu
John Beaulieu
22 December 2009
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19 December 2009
18 December 2009
The sea is like God’s big eye, where the edges of our own eyes bleed into the ocean, in saline ratio and roundness.
Eleni Sikelianos: For a Panel on Poetry & the Environment
Eleni Sikelianos: For a Panel on Poetry & the Environment
17 December 2009
16 December 2009
It is wrong to see softness as an accommodation of the other through judicious adjustment. The first stage of Tai Chi training is not softening to yield but softening to present – softening to find centre. Without an unambiguous centre – a precise location of where and who I am – there is no clear sense of what needs to yield. The centre is that core about which everything can soften but without which nothing has meaning or consequence.
15 December 2009
14 December 2009
Pushing Hands
Truth stands radiant – the erotic dimension where nothing happens. Let all this madness play an important social role. There is nothing at the end, yet what is born is part of the renewal, torn between. Still shining in your quiet mind, I was so moved I began blurting, you are not a stranger. What inner urges prompted the belief that keeps me homeless? Your failing ego brimming over with provocative humour.
13 December 2009
Sinking
The elevated heights my destiny draws me towards can only be achieved by plumbing ever greater depths : central equilibrium.
12 December 2009
Standing
There is no substitute for standing. A stance should be comfortable – not too deep – otherwise pain in the legs will kick in before the body is energized causing tension : grimacing. The energy that slowly manifests in the body should help me through pain barriers into ever greater intensity and relaxation : depth. The freedom I am after is deep deep down. Freedom for the average person is the ability to wander at will from one pleasurable sensation to the next on the shallow plane of mundane arbitrariness; they have no sense of using strict discipline and hard work to break through to deeper more fulfilling planes where the abiding energy is intensity of spirit. The discipline and work condition my character and strengthen my soul – make me a worthy vessel.
11 December 2009
09 December 2009
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07 December 2009
06 December 2009
05 December 2009
04 December 2009
03 December 2009
Tai Chi is a martial art incorporating & teaching the Taoist principle of Yin/Yang.
It assumes that only tension in body & mind prevents us from fulfilling ourselves.
Fulfilment begins when we stop being forceful and become energetic.
It starts with relaxation – opening to gravity – & simple movement to build an energetic connexion with the Earth.
From this connexion we build other connexions and thereby do things.
We are always just the middle-man : a channel for energy.
Always just.
It assumes that only tension in body & mind prevents us from fulfilling ourselves.
Fulfilment begins when we stop being forceful and become energetic.
It starts with relaxation – opening to gravity – & simple movement to build an energetic connexion with the Earth.
From this connexion we build other connexions and thereby do things.
We are always just the middle-man : a channel for energy.
Always just.