We can mystify the whole question and explain esoteric practices in sophisticated terms but it is the simplest spirituality that is also most intriguing…
Jul
23
2013
23
2013
Aug
7
2010
7
2010
The Heron: my totem
from its long still legs the heron with awkward arching grace lifts my dream Peter Thelin is an all around teacher. Besides professing economics in the California college system, he taught Tai Chi at the Academy of Martial Arts, Santa Cruz. He has written a number of breakthrough instructional books on economics not […]
Jul
28
2010
28
2010
Clicking
When it happens to you, you know it. That electric dusk-sensitive porch light clicks on…
Feb
7
2010
7
2010
Excerpt: Hara, The Vital Center of Man
A good story starts In the middle. Karlfried Graf. Durckheim, a German, spent 8 years in Japan before WWII. Years later he wrote a book entitled, HARA:…
Apr
13
2004
13
2004
A Blink of Zen
To the Chinese “Chan”, to the Japanese “Zen”. Whatever you call it, there has been a tie between meditative method and martial studies for over a thousand years.
Apr
11
2003
11
2003
As It Is
There are times when I wonder exactly why it is I invest energy and effort in this particular pursuit, instead of something else, and what it is about the training that I really do feel I benefit so much from.
