HI all
Well we have been busy with getting situated and with so many new folks arriving daily it takes time to get them situated on the how and wheres of everything.
I have been blessed to have some healings with Sifu and as always they are very wonderful.
Suspension
That is something I want to talk about. It is every real and happens to us everyday. some days like when we travel by car at high speeds and fly on airplanes it can be quite suspending so can a night out on the town listening to music or doing some intense studying to exams or working on computers for hours.
What is really important is to do your practice with determindation and body awareness. In other words get down and feel the chair sincerely and repeatedly when doing left right lotus. It must be done daily or the space that you have reclaimed very easily gets filled up with more karma...now we are very fortunate to have left right lotus and the lying left right to bring our feeling to body center..
For those of you doing movement and not yet into level 2 this means doing the movements and feeling the feet with every movement or your body somewhere. This brings back your feeling mind to the body to reclaim its space which leads you to wellness... nothing ever go solved with our clever thinking minds only complications on the other hand there is a time to use the thinking mind but it is not during movements or meditation.. that is the time to be sincere in body feeling.
Sifu used to say cut of your head and it is so true no thoughts needed to sort out anything in the practice just feel the anchor and do the practice.... It is also important to stay busy in the everyday world and avoid spending time contemplating and daydreaming..fantasizing does not get you where you wish to be or take you away from where you are once the fantasy is done you are back to where you started with more heavy karma burdens...
After doing a retreat it is important to do your job of meditation with sincerity and constantly. If not the space you made will be taken over with karma again and Sifu says it will be more steel tight than before.. I know this as when I came home in 2007 there was not one to talk to and not forum to refer to and I became very lost and confused.. my mediation seemed so confusing and it was very humiliating,confusing and disappointing. A mistake I do not now make even after a meditation retereat weekend.. I go right back at it and pound the chair with my sit bones with steele determination. I trust you will all do the same.. Practice does not have to be long 1-2hrs daily is reasonable if you have health concerns more maybe necessary but not at the exclusion of life.
internet in the hotel is not working so I am at Starbucks and will post again when I get a chance.
Metta Dana
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
June 17,2011
HI All
We arrived well! Flights were the best I have ever experienced.. no delays and no long waits.. internet here is low service so I will start writing and post later so everything will be by date to I can keep it clear. Missing connecting to my family so I will have to go to Starbuck in the evening to connect via their internet
Today at the cente three chops... good day.. new tweeks for movement 3 and 7 to work on and show everyone.
It is hot here and it will take a day or two to get into a shedule..
Keep identifying as the worker in meditation and while doing movements just open yourself and let go of everything! No holding open hearted.. probably one whole life time to just accomplish this.. May you all be well and happy!
Metta Dana
We arrived well! Flights were the best I have ever experienced.. no delays and no long waits.. internet here is low service so I will start writing and post later so everything will be by date to I can keep it clear. Missing connecting to my family so I will have to go to Starbuck in the evening to connect via their internet
Today at the cente three chops... good day.. new tweeks for movement 3 and 7 to work on and show everyone.
It is hot here and it will take a day or two to get into a shedule..
Keep identifying as the worker in meditation and while doing movements just open yourself and let go of everything! No holding open hearted.. probably one whole life time to just accomplish this.. May you all be well and happy!
Metta Dana
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Penang June 2011
Welcome
Another trip to Malaysia is about to begin.
There are 40 people who will be going to an open meditation retreat.
We are a very blessed to be going to partake in the wondedrful opportunity.
Stay tuned.
Metta Dana
Another trip to Malaysia is about to begin.
There are 40 people who will be going to an open meditation retreat.
We are a very blessed to be going to partake in the wondedrful opportunity.
Stay tuned.
Metta Dana
Monday, January 19, 2009
January 19 2009
Well I was not very good this time keeping a blog.
Most days with the level 6 course started at 10am and we caught a cab to the hotel and the sessions finished at 6pm. However I had to stay on for another hour of training to become a level 2 meditation instructor.
The sessions ended on Thursday January 15 with a dinner in the evening and we left the next moring at 11:30am. We arrived home Saturday Jan 17 11:30.
It was a very interesting flights home all night flights.There still are many people who are staying on for another week or so and they will be very busy all days meditating and practicing movements.
Much work to be done for me with practicing meditation and teaching level 1 and 2.
Many of the insights that come have no way off being explained in words.
You just learn to let go of everything..have no preference of anything or anyone...and stay centered in your joy and peaceful place even while people are trying their best to kick you out of that or your thoughts are trying to kick you out of that. It is all karma trying to keep you in suffering and pain. You stand out against it all and when you understand this you no longer bother with trying to change anything or anyone in the world you just go meditate and let it all go there.
You just have a knowing...
Looking forward to the weekly practice groups.We are so lucky to have this to connect with each other.
Metta means may all beings be well and happy and very powerful mantra.
Wishing you all Metta
Dana
Most days with the level 6 course started at 10am and we caught a cab to the hotel and the sessions finished at 6pm. However I had to stay on for another hour of training to become a level 2 meditation instructor.
The sessions ended on Thursday January 15 with a dinner in the evening and we left the next moring at 11:30am. We arrived home Saturday Jan 17 11:30.
It was a very interesting flights home all night flights.There still are many people who are staying on for another week or so and they will be very busy all days meditating and practicing movements.
Much work to be done for me with practicing meditation and teaching level 1 and 2.
Many of the insights that come have no way off being explained in words.
You just learn to let go of everything..have no preference of anything or anyone...and stay centered in your joy and peaceful place even while people are trying their best to kick you out of that or your thoughts are trying to kick you out of that. It is all karma trying to keep you in suffering and pain. You stand out against it all and when you understand this you no longer bother with trying to change anything or anyone in the world you just go meditate and let it all go there.
You just have a knowing...
Looking forward to the weekly practice groups.We are so lucky to have this to connect with each other.
Metta means may all beings be well and happy and very powerful mantra.
Wishing you all Metta
Dana
Saturday, January 10, 2009
January 10, 2009
The course is going fabulous much learning and healing is taking place. We are all learning to go in deeper. It is so difficult to put much of this to words as the experience is beyond words. We all continue to try to get in longer and deeper into meditation. The directions are so simple but our karma/personality/ego/pain tried to through up smoke screens to keep us from accomplishing this.... The karma wants to stay alive and be in control of our lives. Our karma is strong and has been a part of us since we were born and if you belieive in previous lives then as well. It will not give up its place in your life without a fight. Going soft is the way out. You will expereince 30% healing with the movements and then continuing on to the meditation gets the last 70%. Most of the time we are restless and do not want to continue but that is also karma pulling you away.
Healing is a given and now we are trying to get to the emptiness however that will take a lifetime of practice and many experiences on the way. Our own personalities will get in the way of our practice and progress as we will give the personality/karma/pain more power by letting it rule our life. We will actually cater to the Karma/personality trait/pain to have it continue. We are puppets to our karma and with the practice we can clear the karma/personality/pain and reclaim our life. It is a valuable practice.
Everyday after the workshop a group of us take training from Master Yap to become level 2 instructors. It is tough and a big responsibility as we are all humbled to be a part of this. So much we are learning about people and the experience of teaching meditation. It is fascinating.
I will be home in a week.
Love Dana
Healing is a given and now we are trying to get to the emptiness however that will take a lifetime of practice and many experiences on the way. Our own personalities will get in the way of our practice and progress as we will give the personality/karma/pain more power by letting it rule our life. We will actually cater to the Karma/personality trait/pain to have it continue. We are puppets to our karma and with the practice we can clear the karma/personality/pain and reclaim our life. It is a valuable practice.
Everyday after the workshop a group of us take training from Master Yap to become level 2 instructors. It is tough and a big responsibility as we are all humbled to be a part of this. So much we are learning about people and the experience of teaching meditation. It is fascinating.
I will be home in a week.
Love Dana
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
January 4 2009
Rain Rain Rain. It has rained a bit this year and it has been intense.
We have gotten caught in the rain and stuck at the center. At home we have such freshness in the air after the rain but not quite here.
Some of my friends decided to walk in the rain unfortunately Collette’s outfit got soaked and the dye ran all over her body…she looked like smurfette…took her a while to get the dye off her body. Her feet and hand were blue and we thought we might play a trick on MY and ask what was happening to her as sometimes when we are healing we can have bluish tinge to our limbs… hands/feet.. we did not of course but had a good giggle about how much it looked like healing.
I had a great meditation and the flow through the body was complete surrounding me. It was like a blanket of energy. After I got out of meditation my body was so light and I did not have any pain. I then walked home to the apartment to do some work for MY and I was amazed at how I start holding every time I am afraid. As I would run across the street, I would hold so much tension in my body, do work walk over the grates it was a real eye opener. Now we all know this as a rule and I am aware of when I hold tension in my extremities but I am tuning into the tension deep in my torso and deep within my body. WE are always talking about going soft but we really do not know how soft we really need to go. We are also not aware of how much tension we hold in the body.
Due to the fact that there are so many people here MY is doing a daily group healing with us as he can not due private healings with everyone. We will be starting the course on Friday and it will be long days and nights for us so I will not have any posting time. Only 1 week and 1 day before we leave and the time will go by quickly.
We have gotten caught in the rain and stuck at the center. At home we have such freshness in the air after the rain but not quite here.
Some of my friends decided to walk in the rain unfortunately Collette’s outfit got soaked and the dye ran all over her body…she looked like smurfette…took her a while to get the dye off her body. Her feet and hand were blue and we thought we might play a trick on MY and ask what was happening to her as sometimes when we are healing we can have bluish tinge to our limbs… hands/feet.. we did not of course but had a good giggle about how much it looked like healing.
I had a great meditation and the flow through the body was complete surrounding me. It was like a blanket of energy. After I got out of meditation my body was so light and I did not have any pain. I then walked home to the apartment to do some work for MY and I was amazed at how I start holding every time I am afraid. As I would run across the street, I would hold so much tension in my body, do work walk over the grates it was a real eye opener. Now we all know this as a rule and I am aware of when I hold tension in my extremities but I am tuning into the tension deep in my torso and deep within my body. WE are always talking about going soft but we really do not know how soft we really need to go. We are also not aware of how much tension we hold in the body.
Due to the fact that there are so many people here MY is doing a daily group healing with us as he can not due private healings with everyone. We will be starting the course on Friday and it will be long days and nights for us so I will not have any posting time. Only 1 week and 1 day before we leave and the time will go by quickly.
January 3,2009
All is well here. Many folks have arrived and each day we have group healings. They are very powerful meditations. We are all doing so well and learning lots.
What we learn in meditation are universal truths. We learn them through the experiences of the meditation not in our thoughts. It is so neat to experience peace and connect to the emptiness.
It is so cool I was talking with a client who noted the change in even my voice. She commented on how my voice has changed back to the way it was last year.
We had a great New Years Eve and all got together at the center to cheer in the New Year. Later we had a group over here in our apartment and had many great laughs and shared some great party tricks that I look forward to teaching Patrick so that we can play them on Francis.
I had an interesting insight about the movements. They help bring the karma into the body and the meditation clears out the karma. The softer we are with the body the more we let go the more that flows through.
What we learn in meditation are universal truths. We learn them through the experiences of the meditation not in our thoughts. It is so neat to experience peace and connect to the emptiness.
It is so cool I was talking with a client who noted the change in even my voice. She commented on how my voice has changed back to the way it was last year.
We had a great New Years Eve and all got together at the center to cheer in the New Year. Later we had a group over here in our apartment and had many great laughs and shared some great party tricks that I look forward to teaching Patrick so that we can play them on Francis.
I had an interesting insight about the movements. They help bring the karma into the body and the meditation clears out the karma. The softer we are with the body the more we let go the more that flows through.
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