silent thunder

I've gained benefit from thinking less in favor of focusing on sensation and awareness of being/breath. Thinking posits 20 questions for every answer.

That is outstanding!

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/159914.php http://www.bbc.com/news/health-18779997 We have brain cells strewn throughout our body it turns out. Though that is not the mind to me, it's another way of interacting with mind. The body is in the mind, not the other way around.

Looks like I need to get this book. What's the title?

I love Mantis style. Only dabbled in it a bit as my focus was traditional five animals and JKD, but the style has always been one of my fav's. Congrats on having a school nearby. I wish you all the best in your endeavor.

Seriously awesome. Thanks.

light hearted ribbing is healing.

thanks for the chuckle. laughter is a calling card and a dr... calling card in that if you feel you can't laugh, then you've located the next stop on your work/practice path dr. for those who can laugh, are healed.

This is a very good description of how we place the feet and emphasize leg position in our first form. I found working in sand to be helpful when adjusting to this at first. It's been three years now since I've been practicing daily and about a year or so ago, I noticed my feet had become larger. I went up to an 11 from a 10 in shoes and they're wider. Since it's summer, I spend most of my time barefoot. Part of my practice is a daily barefoot walk in the park and around the neighborhood. Walking barefoot has always been like a form of prayer of thanks to me. My feet are always thirsty to massage the earth. I'm curious to see if my arches have improved in all this. Though I was never hindered on any of our long camping/hiking trips, putting 20 plus miles a day on my flat feet, it just never caused any problems... always wondered why the army wouldn't take flat footers because of this.

Can relate to this. Rather than listen and respond with intent and care... many folks like to just string word salad together while in front of others to puff themselves up, saying nothing of impact or worth... that's when I stop showing up.

this one's cup is full.

It's in all of them unseen.

good for you mate. laughter is one of my favorite and most effective practices/intentions! laugh though it and getting back to being... simultaneous energetic expulsion/contraction. best thing about it, is it's relentlessly contagious... so many wonderful moments where my wife and I had been arguing heatedly about something, then promptly both just start cracking wide open in laughter... reminds me a bit of suzuki... “Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.” and then, breathe in, breathe out....

*deep bow* Well stated! Boy that resonates with me, saving that one mate!

dun dun dunnnnnnnn..... just you wait til your father gets home!

that is going to be one of their coolest sense memories of being a kid when they get older. what an awesome gift that is...

Sakura Matsuri: Japan's cherry blossom festival is my gig. Hanging out under the canopy of flowers, dropping back sake with friends and laughing...

Yea, I like that way of describing the appearance of opposites. Two sides of same coin is much better expressed for me as: dynamic expression of one thing which appears as two based on where we align our perception. In the end, based on my experience and current perspective, there are no separate anythings... anywhere, just degrees of extreme of expressions of dynamics of process.

I have naturally flat feet, always have... We open the bubbling well by lightly gripping the earth with toes, while running qi gong forms. I studied five animal kung fu for years and flat feet didn't impede my progress internally or externally. Though because of the flat foot, I had a tendency to splay my feet outward duck style, this was corrected over time with attention and awareness. It's all but gone now as muscle memory has taken its place. Some minor corrections infrequently are needed. Best of luck mate.

that is sad. we're all so misguided in our pursuits of roads that go nowhere... yet he is so desperately trying to tag along and follow us... reminds me of the preachers who are always railing against porn while showing image after image on the screen in high def.

I've been running this all night recently and into the mornings while my son and I sleep on our massive couch together. Summer camp, stay up late, watch movies, play video games, talk into the small hours and fall asleep to the sound of life falling from heaven, free and unregulated.

I've long had the experience that my brain tunes into my mind the way my radio tunes into stations.

Well of all the things I might not know about MP, having never heard of it prior to coming here; there is one thing I know for certain now... I don't want anything to do with it.

chop wood and carry the water

constantly