I need to feel a little bit every day.
The body slowly opens; it doesn't always want to.
And so often the First Noble Truth is manifest:
There is always something to stretch the heart with grief. Or fear.
Always some new story of greatness or evil (or happily-ever-after-ness).
None of this Truth can be controlled or cut off. I do know though, that if I feel, the energy of thought and emotion flows through rather than becoming trapped in the body.
Trapped energy is tightness and dysfunction: I can say that from my own experience. And I think that reluctance to feel is one of the main impediments to spiritual practice.
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A personal, practical search for what was never lost: the sanctity of each moment; the profound presence of the physical body; the kindliness of the human heart; the interreflections of psyche and nature.
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This blog spans many years of personal inquiry, from early days as a lay Zen trainee at an American Zen Monastery, to more recent times as a Dharma practitioner and parent in suburbia.
The latest offerings aren't exactly poems. I am just trying to tell the truth in the simplest way I know how, paying attention to phrasing and the sounds of language.
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1 comment:
Tightness. Dysfunction. Suffering. Fear. All of these are words that hit home for me right now. I don't know how to open to all of the suffering around me--and within me--without wanting to just run away. I'm trying to learn. It's slow work.
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