Category Archives: uncatagorized

Marcia writes well of her working with Ex. 34 at a concert. Blending this inner energy with sensing experience seems very powerful. It makes me want to go to a concert. But that won’t happen soon. The embodied feeling of … Continue reading →

I’ve lost the last couple of posts, so this one will be short. Arthur, doing Ex. 4b, is amazed by our ability to ‘make’ trains of thought. The exercise is very useful in clarifying how this happens, but certainly there … Continue reading →

Peter writes of Ex. 4 that when he goes deeper (and why, he asks, do we always try to go ‘deeper’, rather than ‘higher’?) into experience, letting awareness “settle,” he does not find “the very point” at which experience arises; … Continue reading →

I appreciate Arthur’s systematic approach: he sets out to answer every question in part 1 of DTS Ex. 4. He notices that when he focuses on the flowing sensation in his shoulder, trying to stay in the moment before words … Continue reading →

It’s been a very busy time for me, so I have let a few days go by with no posts. And soon I go on retreat for a few days and then to India for three weeks. So I will … Continue reading →

Hi, ich merke, Gedanken entstehen in mir über Stimme, ein lautloses, inneres Probieren. Manchmal ist sogar eine feine Wahrnehmung im physischen Atmen mit im Spiel. Also lautlos gesprochene Wörter sind zumindest im Prozeß dieser Ãœbung in der Entstehungsgeschichte von Gedanken … Continue reading →

Hi, ich versuche auf alle Fragen einzugehen, in A sind es 4. Zu 1.: Ich experimentiere, fokussiere und nehme Entspannung in der Schulter wahr. Was “läuft” in meiner Schulter bevor mir das Wort “Entspannung” einfällt? Es fühlt sich wie ein … Continue reading →

Interesting, awareness and moment(s). Just yesterday, I ran across an exercise suggested in a book on centering and awareness. Simply, give your 3 minutes, the exercise is to stand up and see if you can become aware of what is … Continue reading →

I am always surprised when I return to DTS Ex. 4 to see how rich it is; how many parts. You could base a whole retreat on this exercise. The introduction to the exercise says, ” Settle awareness at the … Continue reading →

Marcia asks this question in a comment: “When it feels “outside time,” can this experience be expressed in terms of the word “moment?” I think the answer has to be no. Moments are inside time. But the answer also has … Continue reading →