tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296606518210633585.post1284530107774957983..comments2024-02-06T22:19:13.028-08:00Comments on Mining Aśvaghoṣa's Gold: SAUNDARANANDA 10.55: Nanda Asks For a Quick FixMike Crosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12712396374023835678noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296606518210633585.post-44404934359823426792011-07-15T06:06:55.642-07:002011-07-15T06:06:55.642-07:00Many thanks for this encouragement, whoever you ma...Many thanks for this encouragement, whoever you may be. <br /><br />One of my heroes, the Alexander teacher-trainer Ron Colyer, sometimes speaks of "the sin of certainty."<br /><br />That particular sin seems to be connected to the tendency to try to be right, or to fix. <br /><br />But Alexander, with his open-ended directions, gave us a means to get beyond all that. <br /><br />An American Alexander teacher named Judith Leibowiz wrote a book that has recently been published called "Dare to Be Wrong." I haven't read the book, but it is a nice title.Mike Crosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712396374023835678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296606518210633585.post-7324826591663815542011-07-15T05:39:14.889-07:002011-07-15T05:39:14.889-07:00For whatever end might be gained by leaving a comm...For whatever end might be gained by leaving a comment to this post, I'm doing it. Not doing it, instead watching my momentary train wreck carry out, either to another wreck or if graced, some glimpse of contentment - didn't happen. So as long as I'm wrecking, let me shout out the window: Mike, this blog project is great. Keep it going please. I rarely comment but often read, am arrested, and contemplate. It's so different from everything else that seems so certain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296606518210633585.post-19921202060464521482011-07-15T03:39:33.310-07:002011-07-15T03:39:33.310-07:00Allow your head to release, dorebelle, FORWARD, an...Allow your head to release, dorebelle, FORWARD, and whatever was painful is already behind you. <br /><br />Let the neck be free to allow the head to release FORWARD and UP. <br /><br />Not pushing down, allowing the whole self UP. <br /><br />Time to stop sitting down? <br /><br />"Let the neck be free to let the head go FORWARD and UP, to let the whole torso lengthen and widen, sending the knees forwards and away."<br /><br />Investigate those directions, and after twenty or thirty years let me know if you agree with me that they contain within them the deathless nectar.Mike Crosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712396374023835678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296606518210633585.post-33130949440777137452011-07-15T02:30:29.938-07:002011-07-15T02:30:29.938-07:00"Confined to sex, we pressed against
The limi..."Confined to sex, we pressed against<br />The limits of the sea" (Leonard Choen - A thousand kisses deep)<br /><br />I followed this path for a while. I cannot call it simply sexual greed. Inside it there is a way to force an "open up" expecially if you begin to work redirecting powerful sensations and emotions like pain and fear, and paying attention to sustain intimacy and connection. You can learn a lot about how to work inside inhibition, you can have a glimpse of nothing in what it is called sub-space.<br /><br />It's a rough job, an hard job, a painful job only for a glimpse so difficult to find. I reached the limits and I stopped to look for something there.<br />No, I painfully stopped my need of looking for something. I stopped, and sat down.Dorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13471530405395394493noreply@blogger.com