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.