Way of Earth
Ancestral Health for the Spiritual Path
In The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, Alan Watts tells a story that he characterizes as a myth for children. God gets bored, he says, and when God gets bored he plays games to entertain himself. God’s favorite game is hide-and-seek.
A few years ago I read an article in Elephant Journal about a young American woman who’d journeyed to Peru to work in an orphanage. In the States she’d practiced yoga and at the behest of her teachers had become a committed vegan, believing that it was the most “spiritual” diet. Shortly after her arrival …
Virtually all approaches to sitting meditation incorporate four foundational elements – posture, stillness, silence, and breath. In this article I consider the optimal ways to work with each.
It’s ironic that a practice touted as a tool for stress management so often produces anxiety. To understand how this can be the case, it’s necessary to understand that there are two levels of stress in the body.
As your body of attention grows, and as you gradually learn to accept your mind as it is, you will find that the mind likes to be observed, it needs to be observed, is soothed and calmed by being observed.
