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Impermanence
Online Shopping: A First World Zen Parable
One version of a famous Zen tale goes like this: An old farmer had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically. “Maybe,” the farmer replied. The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild … Continue reading
Feldenkrais: Roll Your Eyes, Change Your World
Imagine yourself as a complex switchboard of circuitry. Over time, as you’ve developed certain habits, particular wires have been connected to specific jacks in the board. Some connections might be looser than others, and we can easily replug those wires into new jacks. As I discovered ten days ago in my Feldenkrais training, it turns out I can … Continue reading
Feldenkrais: A Gentler Kind of Re-Org
“If you know what you’re doing, you can do what you want.” – Moshe Feldenkrais Did you ever work for a company that went through a re-org? As I recall from my stints in banking and consulting, such shocks to the organism of the business (changing reporting lines, modifying or eliminating roles, etc.) were often preceded, … Continue reading
Stuff is Not a Synonym for Abundance
I once heard some spiritual advice that went something like this: if you were not surrounded with objects you love, it was a sign you were “blocking abundance”. The statement might contain a nugget of truth; perhaps some people don’t believe they deserve to have what pleases them, and they live in a state of … Continue reading
Who Are We, Anyway?
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes. – Walt Whitman My last post (New Diagnosis: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), about clearing out stuff from the past, generated lively discussion in the comments and some questions from a reader: How much of “you” is made up of … Continue reading
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