There are many groups of people who’d like to see their counterparts buried very deep. Oddly enough, they need each other as much as we need oxygen. In this blogpost we follow the thought process of Alan Watts to unravel how that works.
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Fairy tale about how two excessively rival chefs are ordered by the king of the country to hold a cooking contest to determine who is the best.
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Personal account of the trip to China to learn Tai Chi. Part 2: Learning balance.
To learn a skill, we need examples. However, once we identify with the example, we will never find our own way. Knowing when an example needs to be let go is also part of learning balance.
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When we’re low on energy and in a vicious circle we can’t seem to escape, sometimes what appears to be a radical step might just be exactly what we need. Let’s dance!
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The older we become, the more we seem to resist change in all its facets. In this article we discuss common factors sustaining that resistance, and how a genuine sense of wonder at the ever changing nature of life, harbours the possibility of experiencing true joy.
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Personal account of my trip to China to learn Tai Chi. Part 1: Arrival and start-up.
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The similarity between Zen and nonsense literature is that both cannot be logically understood and that by definition makes them magical, fun and extremely good for our health!
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Of our four defense mechanisms against both physical and emotional threat (fight, flee, freeze, fawn – or pleasing behavior), most people have learned to rely on just one or two of them. Having access to all four provides balance because of one’s confidence that any threatening situation can be acted upon adequately. And that in turn increases the pleasure of life!
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