A Meditation on Movement

Moving Meditation: Tai Chi Quito, Ecuador February 26, 2017 My body is walking down a hall. Who is walking? How is there walking? How does this body move itself? Why does the time schedule of the event at this moment determine this motion? What else would be more...

Every Memory is a Lantern

Every memory is a lantern, a light, which if remembered and strung together in awareness with all the others connected by association, will reveal the outline of my life at a higher level. They are remembered because I was present in the moment of imprinting. What did...

Control and Influence (Part 3)

(Part 2 can be found here) The Role of Fear Take a moment now and recall the experience of feeling out of control … realizing you have no influence … recognizing that what will happen depends mostly on luck, that you have no personal control over what will occur …...

Control and Influence (Part 2)

(Click here for Part 1 of this series). As I am exploring this subject, I see in my mind flashes of interactions with people over many years. There are situations I wanted to unfold in specific directions but that met resistance or outright denial from others. The...

Control and Influence (Part 1)

A number of years ago I had surgery for which I agreed to a spinal, rather than a general, anesthetic. In the recovery room I lay on a bed looking at my legs. I had the strange feeling that I was alive, warm, supple from my waist up. Below that there was a sense of...