As you listen to me drop into horse stance and bring your hands forward.
Let us first go over what we are going to do.
We will be standing here in horse stance meditation, the intensity of this excercise is all in your control. As we close are eyes I want to imagine you are before a great and frigid waterfall. Deafening, drowning out distractions in this room.
You will not feel the cold because you will be heating up from your horse stance, and bracing yorself against the water that is pelting you and the current trying to pull your feet out from under you. The pain you feel should only be the endorphins, know strain on the joints. Keep your back straight and relax. Your body is in a relaxing sauna, but the outside is the deafening waterfall, drowning out all else.
We will stay in this water fall a while through several poses
Our bodies will then pass through this water fall to a cave behind it. In this cave is a fire and you will discover you are an animal, you always have been, in a cave with other wild animals. Tigers Dragons Cranes leapords snakes, elephants horses, gorillas apes and monkeys. All different animals and combinations of them and variations, real and unreal are here and within you. Calmly follow me moving in a circle around the fire in a calm and entranced dance of your own kind. Learn and awaken to your movement. Go Slowly because you may not be used to moving in this way yet. Move slowly so as not to injure your self. Stretch your wings, arch your tiger back, Crouch and spring around the fire in the cave in in this moving meditation. The cave will grow and shrink and twist and turn into a Labrynth. Work on breathing as this creature that you are breaking a sweat, but careful not to hurt yourself.
We will then move to where we were and sit and move into sitting meditation, to recover. Sit in the posture that you see me sitting. Relax, keep you back straight and breathe through your nose. THink of nothing, but don't try. Remain here, your mind staying here realxing, if thoughts come let them pass. If it is necessary to open your eyes to stay here do so. then close them again. Don't worry if your body moves or others around you. Just sit in a deep meditation.
Keep a level heart, level and calm emotions and allow the oxygen to cirulate in your blood stream.
Keep Your conscious spirit and your heart as one.
We will meditate for 20 mintues or so.
Then I will tell you to open your eyes and you will follow me in some meditation excercises.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Bad dream
I dreamt I was in a house of serial killers, or a frat house, we were college students or something of that sort. Almost evryone in the dream was white. And I had killed someone and was trying to hide the body, or was trying to hode the body but I didn't killed them. Somehow the whole body was taken care of except the skull and I was carrying this around. It was night and I was too lazy to destroy the skull by crushing it into powder. But I didn't want to just put it in the garbage cause then someone might see it and find out. If I put it in somebody else's garbage someone might still see it and there would be an investigation. But I was so tired that I didn't bother to destroy it after all and left it in the house to take acare oif later.
Then for some reason I joined Hung Ching, and this entire section of the dream involved mostly Chinese people. I joined because of "Uncle Chucky" or was helping him do something but did not join. Chinatown was hot like the summer and there were many outdoor cafe style sections to restaraunts but not chep looking. The stuff almost looked like a Wuxia movie guess except we were in modern times wearing modern clothes in the city that looked nothing like Boston but it was.
For some reason someone was supposed to set up some kind of drug deal as a test, and it involved a ridiculously small amount of drugs for the amount of people who were in on the deal. THere were like 200 people in the restaraunt and more groups of kids seemingly just from China kept coming in but nobody actually wanted to make the deal. It wasn't even a deal to make money and there was an understanding that they had all moved on from this business already but for somereason they were doing it anyway. The police were also outside but for somereason could not and would not come into the restaraunt. They were just waiting for people to come out to arrest them afterthe deal was made. There was the sense that the police were there and yet there were no uniforms or squad cars to be seen.
It finally the deal was not made but waiting outsidde was one of the guys from work and like a thousand older black guys who looked like somebody's father wearing old man clothes and they all looked exactly the same like the Matrix, and you knew that they were police but they were just standing there looking like they were waiting for the signal to arrest us but just walked around with their hand in their pockets saying "hi how are you doing"
I walked away from the others and a group with the guy from work followed me and searched me. The guy from work said, "It's okay we just have to search you but we won't find anything." Somehow there was a thin layer of poder that they said they took from my skin which was supposed to be drugs or something. Actually I never saw them search me.
Then the guy from work said, "Oh he is part of it! Lock him up! Sned him away for One hundred years!"
Butr then we still just all stood around. Then we walked back to therest f the group.
I woke up and my girlfriend said. "I had a bad dream!"
I dreamt you had a child with another woman and she made you marry her!
Then Some Arab people sold me an expensive handbag and it was bad quality!
Then for some reason I joined Hung Ching, and this entire section of the dream involved mostly Chinese people. I joined because of "Uncle Chucky" or was helping him do something but did not join. Chinatown was hot like the summer and there were many outdoor cafe style sections to restaraunts but not chep looking. The stuff almost looked like a Wuxia movie guess except we were in modern times wearing modern clothes in the city that looked nothing like Boston but it was.
For some reason someone was supposed to set up some kind of drug deal as a test, and it involved a ridiculously small amount of drugs for the amount of people who were in on the deal. THere were like 200 people in the restaraunt and more groups of kids seemingly just from China kept coming in but nobody actually wanted to make the deal. It wasn't even a deal to make money and there was an understanding that they had all moved on from this business already but for somereason they were doing it anyway. The police were also outside but for somereason could not and would not come into the restaraunt. They were just waiting for people to come out to arrest them afterthe deal was made. There was the sense that the police were there and yet there were no uniforms or squad cars to be seen.
It finally the deal was not made but waiting outsidde was one of the guys from work and like a thousand older black guys who looked like somebody's father wearing old man clothes and they all looked exactly the same like the Matrix, and you knew that they were police but they were just standing there looking like they were waiting for the signal to arrest us but just walked around with their hand in their pockets saying "hi how are you doing"
I walked away from the others and a group with the guy from work followed me and searched me. The guy from work said, "It's okay we just have to search you but we won't find anything." Somehow there was a thin layer of poder that they said they took from my skin which was supposed to be drugs or something. Actually I never saw them search me.
Then the guy from work said, "Oh he is part of it! Lock him up! Sned him away for One hundred years!"
Butr then we still just all stood around. Then we walked back to therest f the group.
I woke up and my girlfriend said. "I had a bad dream!"
I dreamt you had a child with another woman and she made you marry her!
Then Some Arab people sold me an expensive handbag and it was bad quality!
Slow
There is something to be said for slowing down, like mein lay jum training.
Not just for Kung Fu but for everything. To slow down and enjoy the moment even if it is putting a paper on the copier machine an dthen closing the top and then pressing the start button... or typing. Slowly. Slowly but smoothy, The smoothness an dfluidity of th emovement making it as though you were moving quickly, SLowing down to roundoff the many stops that one creates in ones motions. SLowing down seems to actually save time and produce less stress. In physical activity and other activity as well.
Slow. Breathe. SLow circulate chi and feel the moment. Take in the experience of life. Even if it is what we would consider crappy part of life. Work. Enjoy it.
Experience the stale office air and fake flourescent lights. I suppose this would all sound much more romantic if one were talking about being in the woods and chopping a tree. But there are crappy things about that I can imagine, as I have never done it, and perhaps the woodsman imagines sitting in our concrete towers away from the Jungle pushing paper and typing into screens.
Or maybe not.
Work and a day off, what is the difference,
Why walk to your destination.
Be at your destination walking, riding the T, or driving your car.
These actions are part of the dream, the success,living the life.
Don't rush it. enjoy it calmly, slowly and smoothly, and at the same time you will get through it more quickly as well I think.
Not just for Kung Fu but for everything. To slow down and enjoy the moment even if it is putting a paper on the copier machine an dthen closing the top and then pressing the start button... or typing. Slowly. Slowly but smoothy, The smoothness an dfluidity of th emovement making it as though you were moving quickly, SLowing down to roundoff the many stops that one creates in ones motions. SLowing down seems to actually save time and produce less stress. In physical activity and other activity as well.
Slow. Breathe. SLow circulate chi and feel the moment. Take in the experience of life. Even if it is what we would consider crappy part of life. Work. Enjoy it.
Experience the stale office air and fake flourescent lights. I suppose this would all sound much more romantic if one were talking about being in the woods and chopping a tree. But there are crappy things about that I can imagine, as I have never done it, and perhaps the woodsman imagines sitting in our concrete towers away from the Jungle pushing paper and typing into screens.
Or maybe not.
Work and a day off, what is the difference,
Why walk to your destination.
Be at your destination walking, riding the T, or driving your car.
These actions are part of the dream, the success,living the life.
Don't rush it. enjoy it calmly, slowly and smoothly, and at the same time you will get through it more quickly as well I think.
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