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I was uh not partially shocked by lightning.
00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:15.039
I'm glad I gave the forewarning.
00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:23.920
Um, I did lose internet, I did lose power, and now I'm back.
00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:30.000
And uh we can practice together in the time that we have.
00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:33.840
I'm happy to give the the full hour.
00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:36.640
So settle in.
00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:46.560
This is truly one of the favorite parts of my day, so I don't want to miss it.
00:00:49.600 --> 00:01:54.319
And as I was beginning to say, we very simply in this practice feel into, appreciate, acknowledge these qualities of presence, these qualities of nature's flow that we're part of, that we're comprised of, and then part of the adventure, part of what I simply just really enjoy exploring, is that in addition to this foundation of coming and spending 30 minutes feeling into as evidently and immediately as we can, these qualities of nature.
00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:26.000
Then to also have uh, I mean people have different kinds of fun, but this is a fun kind of adventure exploration where we may see some things in various teachings or various practices that become more accessible to us in our own way by combining it with this first half hour practice.
00:02:26.960 --> 00:03:01.840
And for me, some of the Taoist meditation, circulation practices, for example, can feel more natural and intuitive, and uh let it be uh less of a trying and more of an effortless revealing of the fullness of our nature with this context.
00:03:03.199 --> 00:04:46.560
We are simply feeling ourselves with these qualities of presence that we already automatically have, and so we will be continuing to feel the sense of settling down, both on like uh physical scale, but also just so refined that sense of even emotionally, even mind begins to feel more centered in the fullness of our presence, and then also beginning to feel how we can feel a kind of a rising as well, supportive, energizing, rising, and that by playing with these two down and up, we will then put ourselves in a place to perhaps next time feel into the circulation practices of Taoist meditation, connecting to qi flow, and so let's begin, and eyes can be open or closed for the practice, either way.
00:04:46.800 --> 00:07:22.720
We start with an inward turn, to feel more into our inner landscape, and the first part of practice is the sense of letting ourselves feel the togetherness of flow, starting with our shoulders laying down to the support of our torso, like gravity is gently wrapping itself around our shoulders and letting them rest more fully onto the support beneath, and for today's practice, we will more fully link this to the breath and the releasing sense of the out breath, and so taking five out breaths, we're at the bottom of each out breath, we're laying down a little more fully, letting go right there at the shoulders where we hold so much habitual tension, continuing for the next few outbreaths, and then doing so for the hands.
00:07:26.480 --> 00:08:04.319
Five hour breaths for the hands to lay down to give their weight more fully let go into support.
00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:34.399
And when we've reached the fifth outbreath, breathing in and letting yourself breathe in that sense of the support of your lap.
00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:38.240
Take it in for five breaths.
00:09:39.120 --> 00:10:41.600
But simply a sense of being right there at that place of contact, hands and lap, being there in that contact full yin and yang of interaction, being there right in the thick of the inseparability of the forces from the hands to the lap down, and from the lap to the hand up, seemingly opposites that arise together.
00:11:20.799 --> 00:12:05.919
While being open to appreciating and recognizing the same quality of presence there, mutual, contactful, connecting togetherness, and let's take five out breaths and feel the down flow through as we more fully give our weight to the ground.
00:14:06.559 --> 00:15:15.440
It can be helpful to know that that force of support from the ground propagates up your body up every vertebra of your spine and reaches all the way to the top of your head in one unbroken seam of force connection, just at the level of physics, the level of action reaction, so maybe taking a few more in breaths, and just you know, not trying to draw anything up, but opening to that sense that the ground is giving you something that goes all the way to the top of your head.
00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:49.440
It's already going on and then letting go of feeling up or down any direction.
00:15:51.840 --> 00:17:30.880
And again, just being at that meeting place, seat and ground, right in the midst and middle of that yin yang of interaction, and as you are there in that interaction, seat and ground, you're also there, the interaction of hand and lap, and the interaction of shoulder and torso, and the interaction of every little part and particle of your being.
00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:16.480
To open ourselves more to feeling the fineness of all this interaction arising, all this interbeing.
00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:44.720
And to encourage ourselves to feel the fineness of these flows right there in the space.
00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:54.160
That it's like that entry entryway passage between the outer and the inner world.
00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:03.920
Sometimes do a pattern, and today I'll not go into the pattern.
00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:10.960
We're noticing the right nostril as you breathe in.
00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:18.079
Noticing the left nostril as you breathe out.
00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:56.640
And returning back to the right nostril as you breathe out, staying with that pattern in this open inquiry of what's the finest flow I can feel in this very fleeting instant.
00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:55.599
Space between the eyes, why?
00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:17.279
And at any instant opening to the practically infinite flows within flows.
00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:11.839
And then gradually letting the alternate nostril noticing fade.
00:22:16.319 --> 00:22:28.799
And there's just the sense of this practically infinitely free flow coming down inside us as we breathe in.
00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:42.640
And a downward cascade of the front body as we breathe out.
00:22:51.519 --> 00:23:11.680
And a slight variation this time, where typically we feel the undulation, the wave-like cascade of the front body, probably about from the heart area down to the belly.
00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:26.880
As we continue on the in-breath to feel that free flow of air come down inside us.
00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:40.559
And then it's the free flow of our body showing itself as this subtle breathing wave.
00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:43.279
Of more subtly that wave going even from the upper Dantian between your eyes, down to your middle Dantian, your heart area, and down to your lower Dantian, a little below your belly button.
00:24:55.119 --> 00:25:10.240
So this is a physical wave of the front body, and also a feeling wave of something a little more subtle as well.
00:25:51.200 --> 00:26:20.400
Almost like the emotions can lay down and flow, even the thoughts can lay down and flow as part of all of this interbeing, all this free flow.
00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:56.880
On the outbreath is part of Taoist meditation and circulation practice.
00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:16.079
Coming down inside our inner body.
00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:34.960
And then on the outbreath, that downward cascade that ends at our belly.
00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:25.759
Where am I supposed to go here, there?
00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:37.119
And continue the practice, but let each breath feel like a fainter echo of the practice.
00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:44.880
And just notice how that feels.
00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:08.000
A fuller subtlety emerges.
00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:41.119
And just being for a few moments here, not trying to manage, manipulate, control your experience in any particular way.
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:43.680
Anything goes.
00:31:53.599 --> 00:32:00.000
Elongating the thumbs slightly and feeling their length to their tip.
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:08.720
And then doing so for the pointer finger.
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:22.240
Next outbreath, middle finger, all the way to the tip.
00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:28.799
Next outbreath.
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:33.279
Fourth finger.
00:33:54.000 --> 00:34:19.599
And perhaps timing the very end of our outbreath so that we're feeling right at that juncture where the space that our finger occupies, and the space just beyond our finger, is felt right at the end of our outbreath.
00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:52.960
Filling out the finger, it's not just that one D length, but three D space full to the brim with the presence of this practically infinite interbeing flow of nature that we call say a pointer finger.
00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:55.599
Feel the spaces in between all the fingers.
00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:33.440
Those meeting places between just the space around the fingers and the space occupied by the fingers can come into a more vibrant contrast.
00:37:53.119 --> 00:38:32.239
If spreading them, put some extra tension in them, letting the hands feel heavy, feeling as though one could breathe in and out through the very center of the palm of your hands as the palms of your hands hold the space around them.
00:38:43.679 --> 00:39:34.320
Everything flowing in one whole space, and with the sense of our experience of what we call hands now, taking five breaths and letting the hands lay down more fully, subtly, deeply at every level to the support beneath.
00:40:03.599 --> 00:40:13.679
An illusion of aloneness that we can begin to dissolve right there in our hands.
00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:17.760
Right in this next breath.
00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:08.719
Like we did before.
00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:25.039
This refinement.
00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:38.480
That's inseparable.
00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:18.400
And we're going to begin to transition to standing and some movement.
00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:32.320
More feel this downflow through, upflow through, and then perhaps even return back to sitting.
00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:41.039
So can gradually make adjustments.
00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:36.559
And for a moment, feeling how the fingers are a lot like the toes.
00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:48.880
And the palms of the hands are a lot like the soles of the feet.
00:45:55.199 --> 00:46:08.559
And that whatever we're feeling in our hands as they rest in our lap would share these common qualities.
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:17.519
Qualities of nature's flow with our feet and the ground.
00:46:56.320 --> 00:47:11.280
Standing in Uji stance with our feet wide enough for our hips to feel wide and released.
00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:52.719
Here as we stand and the feet laying down to the ground as we stand.
00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:04.400
All of our weight laying down through our feet to the ground.
00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:20.320
Laying down the burden there.
00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:30.639
Shifting to the other leg down flow through.
00:48:39.119 --> 00:48:43.360
Shifting back and forth slowly five more times.
00:48:50.400 --> 00:49:00.239
Perhaps a little synchronized with the breath where the outbreath and the shift over happen the same time.
00:49:06.239 --> 00:49:11.039
So we feel that down flow through.
00:50:50.239 --> 00:51:26.000
May synchronize this with the in-breath and even like to feel as low one is drawing that force of support of the legs on the in-breath, that wave is propagating faster than the speed of sound, so we're not really tracing it, but we can take it in.
00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:49.840
That conceptually we divide into feet and floor.
00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:36.159
From the top of our head to the soles of our feet.
00:54:55.519 --> 00:55:06.480
And bringing the hands round to embrace a large sphere in front of us.
00:55:49.760 --> 00:55:53.360
Embrace, coming down, breathing out.
00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:31.360
Helped by the arm movement.
00:56:39.199 --> 00:57:18.079
And let it be as subtle as you would like to include what we call emotions, what we call moods, what we call inner weather, what we call so many things that's hard to put names to.
00:59:12.159 --> 00:59:14.880
Next, we're going to come in.
00:59:16.960 --> 00:59:23.039
And as we breathe in, the arms come up the midline and then out.
01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:52.480
Having gone down, having gone up, flipping the hand skyward and ending with three downward, embracing Qi Gong movements.
01:02:24.960 --> 01:03:08.000
And with that practice still lingering in our system, coming back to sitting and taking five out breaths with a sense of downflow through your body to the earth.
01:04:09.599 --> 01:04:42.159
Feeling the flow from the earth into your body upflow through of support of connection of flow everywhere, or perhaps up your spine.
01:05:47.519 --> 01:05:58.159
All simultaneous interconnection at once.
01:06:26.960 --> 01:06:30.079
And this completes an hour of presence.
01:06:41.760 --> 01:06:43.039
Three minutes.
01:06:45.599 --> 01:06:48.400
Neither practice nor not practice.
01:06:51.280 --> 01:06:52.719
Just a simmer.
01:09:26.800 --> 01:09:34.479
Thank you for adventuring here today.
00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:12.560
I was uh not partially shocked by lightning.
00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:15.039
I'm glad I gave the forewarning.
00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:23.920
Um, I did lose internet, I did lose power, and now I'm back.
00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:30.000
And uh we can practice together in the time that we have.
00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:33.840
I'm happy to give the the full hour.
00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:36.640
So settle in.
00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:46.560
This is truly one of the favorite parts of my day, so I don't want to miss it.
00:00:49.600 --> 00:01:54.319
And as I was beginning to say, we very simply in this practice feel into, appreciate, acknowledge these qualities of presence, these qualities of nature's flow that we're part of, that we're comprised of, and then part of the adventure, part of what I simply just really enjoy exploring, is that in addition to this foundation of coming and spending 30 minutes feeling into as evidently and immediately as we can, these qualities of nature.
00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:26.000
Then to also have uh, I mean people have different kinds of fun, but this is a fun kind of adventure exploration where we may see some things in various teachings or various practices that become more accessible to us in our own way by combining it with this first half hour practice.
00:02:26.960 --> 00:03:01.840
And for me, some of the Taoist meditation, circulation practices, for example, can feel more natural and intuitive, and uh let it be uh less of a trying and more of an effortless revealing of the fullness of our nature with this context.
00:03:03.199 --> 00:04:46.560
We are simply feeling ourselves with these qualities of presence that we already automatically have, and so we will be continuing to feel the sense of settling down, both on like uh physical scale, but also just so refined that sense of even emotionally, even mind begins to feel more centered in the fullness of our presence, and then also beginning to feel how we can feel a kind of a rising as well, supportive, energizing, rising, and that by playing with these two down and up, we will then put ourselves in a place to perhaps next time feel into the circulation practices of Taoist meditation, connecting to qi flow, and so let's begin, and eyes can be open or closed for the practice, either way.
00:04:46.800 --> 00:07:22.720
We start with an inward turn, to feel more into our inner landscape, and the first part of practice is the sense of letting ourselves feel the togetherness of flow, starting with our shoulders laying down to the support of our torso, like gravity is gently wrapping itself around our shoulders and letting them rest more fully onto the support beneath, and for today's practice, we will more fully link this to the breath and the releasing sense of the out breath, and so taking five out breaths, we're at the bottom of each out breath, we're laying down a little more fully, letting go right there at the shoulders where we hold so much habitual tension, continuing for the next few outbreaths, and then doing so for the hands.
00:07:26.480 --> 00:08:04.319
Five hour breaths for the hands to lay down to give their weight more fully let go into support.
00:08:19.439 --> 00:08:34.399
And when we've reached the fifth outbreath, breathing in and letting yourself breathe in that sense of the support of your lap.
00:08:35.279 --> 00:08:38.240
Take it in for five breaths.
00:09:39.120 --> 00:10:41.600
But simply a sense of being right there at that place of contact, hands and lap, being there in that contact full yin and yang of interaction, being there right in the thick of the inseparability of the forces from the hands to the lap down, and from the lap to the hand up, seemingly opposites that arise together.
00:11:20.799 --> 00:12:05.919
While being open to appreciating and recognizing the same quality of presence there, mutual, contactful, connecting togetherness, and let's take five out breaths and feel the down flow through as we more fully give our weight to the ground.
00:14:06.559 --> 00:15:15.440
It can be helpful to know that that force of support from the ground propagates up your body up every vertebra of your spine and reaches all the way to the top of your head in one unbroken seam of force connection, just at the level of physics, the level of action reaction, so maybe taking a few more in breaths, and just you know, not trying to draw anything up, but opening to that sense that the ground is giving you something that goes all the way to the top of your head.
00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:49.440
It's already going on and then letting go of feeling up or down any direction.
00:15:51.840 --> 00:17:30.880
And again, just being at that meeting place, seat and ground, right in the midst and middle of that yin yang of interaction, and as you are there in that interaction, seat and ground, you're also there, the interaction of hand and lap, and the interaction of shoulder and torso, and the interaction of every little part and particle of your being.
00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:16.480
To open ourselves more to feeling the fineness of all this interaction arising, all this interbeing.
00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:44.720
And to encourage ourselves to feel the fineness of these flows right there in the space.
00:18:47.680 --> 00:18:54.160
That it's like that entry entryway passage between the outer and the inner world.
00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:03.920
Sometimes do a pattern, and today I'll not go into the pattern.
00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:10.960
We're noticing the right nostril as you breathe in.
00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:18.079
Noticing the left nostril as you breathe out.
00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:56.640
And returning back to the right nostril as you breathe out, staying with that pattern in this open inquiry of what's the finest flow I can feel in this very fleeting instant.
00:20:53.279 --> 00:20:55.599
Space between the eyes, why?
00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:17.279
And at any instant opening to the practically infinite flows within flows.
00:22:06.400 --> 00:22:11.839
And then gradually letting the alternate nostril noticing fade.
00:22:16.319 --> 00:22:28.799
And there's just the sense of this practically infinitely free flow coming down inside us as we breathe in.
00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:42.640
And a downward cascade of the front body as we breathe out.
00:22:51.519 --> 00:23:11.680
And a slight variation this time, where typically we feel the undulation, the wave-like cascade of the front body, probably about from the heart area down to the belly.
00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:26.880
As we continue on the in-breath to feel that free flow of air come down inside us.
00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:40.559
And then it's the free flow of our body showing itself as this subtle breathing wave.
00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:43.279
Of more subtly that wave going even from the upper Dantian between your eyes, down to your middle Dantian, your heart area, and down to your lower Dantian, a little below your belly button.
00:24:55.119 --> 00:25:10.240
So this is a physical wave of the front body, and also a feeling wave of something a little more subtle as well.
00:25:51.200 --> 00:26:20.400
Almost like the emotions can lay down and flow, even the thoughts can lay down and flow as part of all of this interbeing, all this free flow.
00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:56.880
On the outbreath is part of Taoist meditation and circulation practice.
00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:16.079
Coming down inside our inner body.
00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:34.960
And then on the outbreath, that downward cascade that ends at our belly.
00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:25.759
Where am I supposed to go here, there?
00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:37.119
And continue the practice, but let each breath feel like a fainter echo of the practice.
00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:44.880
And just notice how that feels.
00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:08.000
A fuller subtlety emerges.
00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:41.119
And just being for a few moments here, not trying to manage, manipulate, control your experience in any particular way.
00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:43.680
Anything goes.
00:31:53.599 --> 00:32:00.000
Elongating the thumbs slightly and feeling their length to their tip.
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:08.720
And then doing so for the pointer finger.
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:22.240
Next outbreath, middle finger, all the way to the tip.
00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:28.799
Next outbreath.
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:33.279
Fourth finger.
00:33:54.000 --> 00:34:19.599
And perhaps timing the very end of our outbreath so that we're feeling right at that juncture where the space that our finger occupies, and the space just beyond our finger, is felt right at the end of our outbreath.
00:35:12.079 --> 00:35:52.960
Filling out the finger, it's not just that one D length, but three D space full to the brim with the presence of this practically infinite interbeing flow of nature that we call say a pointer finger.
00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:55.599
Feel the spaces in between all the fingers.
00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:33.440
Those meeting places between just the space around the fingers and the space occupied by the fingers can come into a more vibrant contrast.
00:37:53.119 --> 00:38:32.239
If spreading them, put some extra tension in them, letting the hands feel heavy, feeling as though one could breathe in and out through the very center of the palm of your hands as the palms of your hands hold the space around them.
00:38:43.679 --> 00:39:34.320
Everything flowing in one whole space, and with the sense of our experience of what we call hands now, taking five breaths and letting the hands lay down more fully, subtly, deeply at every level to the support beneath.
00:40:03.599 --> 00:40:13.679
An illusion of aloneness that we can begin to dissolve right there in our hands.
00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:17.760
Right in this next breath.
00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:08.719
Like we did before.
00:41:23.440 --> 00:41:25.039
This refinement.
00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:38.480
That's inseparable.
00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:18.400
And we're going to begin to transition to standing and some movement.
00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:32.320
More feel this downflow through, upflow through, and then perhaps even return back to sitting.
00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:41.039
So can gradually make adjustments.
00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:36.559
And for a moment, feeling how the fingers are a lot like the toes.
00:45:42.880 --> 00:45:48.880
And the palms of the hands are a lot like the soles of the feet.
00:45:55.199 --> 00:46:08.559
And that whatever we're feeling in our hands as they rest in our lap would share these common qualities.
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:17.519
Qualities of nature's flow with our feet and the ground.
00:46:56.320 --> 00:47:11.280
Standing in Uji stance with our feet wide enough for our hips to feel wide and released.
00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:52.719
Here as we stand and the feet laying down to the ground as we stand.
00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:04.400
All of our weight laying down through our feet to the ground.
00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:20.320
Laying down the burden there.
00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:30.639
Shifting to the other leg down flow through.
00:48:39.119 --> 00:48:43.360
Shifting back and forth slowly five more times.
00:48:50.400 --> 00:49:00.239
Perhaps a little synchronized with the breath where the outbreath and the shift over happen the same time.
00:49:06.239 --> 00:49:11.039
So we feel that down flow through.
00:50:50.239 --> 00:51:26.000
May synchronize this with the in-breath and even like to feel as low one is drawing that force of support of the legs on the in-breath, that wave is propagating faster than the speed of sound, so we're not really tracing it, but we can take it in.
00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:49.840
That conceptually we divide into feet and floor.
00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:36.159
From the top of our head to the soles of our feet.
00:54:55.519 --> 00:55:06.480
And bringing the hands round to embrace a large sphere in front of us.
00:55:49.760 --> 00:55:53.360
Embrace, coming down, breathing out.
00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:31.360
Helped by the arm movement.
00:56:39.199 --> 00:57:18.079
And let it be as subtle as you would like to include what we call emotions, what we call moods, what we call inner weather, what we call so many things that's hard to put names to.
00:59:12.159 --> 00:59:14.880
Next, we're going to come in.
00:59:16.960 --> 00:59:23.039
And as we breathe in, the arms come up the midline and then out.
01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:52.480
Having gone down, having gone up, flipping the hand skyward and ending with three downward, embracing Qi Gong movements.
01:02:24.960 --> 01:03:08.000
And with that practice still lingering in our system, coming back to sitting and taking five out breaths with a sense of downflow through your body to the earth.
01:04:09.599 --> 01:04:42.159
Feeling the flow from the earth into your body upflow through of support of connection of flow everywhere, or perhaps up your spine.
01:05:47.519 --> 01:05:58.159
All simultaneous interconnection at once.
01:06:26.960 --> 01:06:30.079
And this completes an hour of presence.
01:06:41.760 --> 01:06:43.039
Three minutes.
01:06:45.599 --> 01:06:48.400
Neither practice nor not practice.
01:06:51.280 --> 01:06:52.719
Just a simmer.
01:09:26.800 --> 01:09:34.479
Thank you for adventuring here today.
