a blog by John P. Schuster
All his life has he looked away to the future, the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Yoda Summary: This may be the most radical practice of the ten practices. Our attempt here is to go beyond the thought patterns that so often create anxiety, “stuckness” and their consequent tensions. So much of this comes from time pressures and how we view the future. We ease up on our constant attention to and[…]
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Everywhere I go the world offers me its busyness. It does not believe I do not want it. Mary Oliver Summary: Many metaphors carry significance and meaning all by themselves, without elaboration. The name of practice 8 is one of them. Numerous positive associations come from this water metaphor—non-resistance, going with the flow, being easy-going and letting go of demands from the smaller thinking, non-aware, self. Here is our homage to the Tao, effortlessness, westernized[…]
Read moreTaking ourselves out of flow and into anxiety The couch is ready for me—the remote just lying there ready for TV action. I can go watch a game, surf some channels, and chill out. I also have a tough book to read and a paper to write and maybe, instead of surfing and zoning out, I will put my head into this taxing book, then sit at a computer and try to write something coherent[…]
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