Observations from the practice. What the work actually looks like when it is happening. What the work actually looks like from the inside.
You can watch yourself do the thing you do not want to do. You can see it clearly and even narrate it in real time and and still not stop. This is not a failure of awareness. It is the next question awareness asks.
Read the full note →There is a layer of knowing that runs ahead of thought. Most of us have learned to override it so consistently that we have forgotten it is there. The practice is not to access it. It is to stop overriding it.
Read the full note →Every person has one. It is not usually the dramatic one they think it is. It is quieter and more structural than that and a premise so embedded in how they see the world that they have never experienced a moment without it.
Read the full note →Before you say a word in a room, something has already arrived. People are not responding to your words nearly as much as they are responding to whatever you are carrying and your state, your unresolved questions, the thing you are not saying.
Read the full note →At thirty metres, the body makes a decision. The mind can influence that decision but cannot override it. Something about having no choice and truly no choice and about being fully in the present moment changes the quality of your presence on land.
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