Wednesday 1 April 2009

Points I like to remember in my own practice

The following points together with a commentary, were shared with students on the one-day course last Saturday :

  • Practice patience. Have few expectations. Let go of anticipation.
  • Open to the bare essence of experience.
  • Experience afresh.
  • Be willing to allow new preceptions to arise and new experiences to come to awareness.
  • Reduce preconceptions - practice only the essential principles.
  • Cultivate Shen : enliven awareness and open-hearted consciousness.
  • Cultivate the Yi : pure decision without being forceful. Uncomplicated, with no desire for result beyond the creation of force.
  • 'If you think there is a method, that is not it.' (Five word secret)
  • Forget self.

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