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I love this story from Reflections on the Art of Living – A Joseph Campbell Companion, Selected and edited by Diane K. Osbon: … (Heinrich) Zimmer loved to recount an amusing animal-fable from India. It tells of a tigress, pregnant and starving, who comes upon a flock of little goats and pounces upon them with [...]

Rather than the MythoSelf process being outlined in the Dune books, the Dune books inform the MythoSelf process. You’ll note that Joseph is both the architect and the designer of the MythoSelf process… Regarding artistic license, you need to understand that what you believe is true limits what is possible for you. When an author [...]

Things always become more complex not simpler. The skill is in making the complex things simple, that’s what people will buy. About the relationship between men and women. Yes I agree with you I think a lot of men and women are confused. But primarily because they are looking for something in a partner that [...]

In China as well as Japan they make gardens out of rock. The art of growing rocks being that the creator of the garden selects the rock from nature, perhaps because something appeals about it’s innate crystalline structure or simply aesthetic appeal. The art of the creator being to make the garden more natural than [...]

It’s one of those strange things about perspective… Looking back you can see how all the twists and turns, obstacles, snakes and ladders caused you to get where you are now. And you wouldn’t be where you are now not having gone through all the shit. Looking forward it looks like the barrier is impassable. [...]

What interested me about the Japanese art of flower arranging Ikebana when I first heard about it was that they do the arrangement so it looks perfect, but then break one of the stems or flowers so it looks natural not artificial, then it satisfies their aesthetic sensibilities. To me the attention on, or indeed [...]

I’ve done some Ki Aikido, as in the lineage of Koichi Tohei. Though I’ve heard most about it from Charlie Badenhop (who has an excellent newsletter, available at http://www.seishindo.org). Among other things he’s a licensed teacher of Ki Aikido and direct student of Tohei, who lives and teaches in Japan. And short Aikido story: Tohei [...]

Now where would be the fun if you were just sitting and doing vipassana in the quiet and tranquillity or with resonant people aka sangha? It’s about how you rub up against the world that shows you where your rough edges are. Another way of saying it is because you have the buttons, she’s able [...]