Live not to reach the rare. Live so that the rare can reach you.
I am on a partial sabbatical until springtime
Dhanur Veda: Life, Pu erh tea, archery, sumo, … it is all the same.
First minute or so of the YouTube video makes the point: Yi Jin Jing: The 5 Second Trick to HEAL Your FASCIA Instantly
Structure, containment, permission: In life, deliberate creates stable field structure and stable field in motion gives containment. the physiology gives permission. Impulsive creates leaks.
Most of life’s richness is chased—money, max lifts, rare teas, expensive things. Yet the real art is quieter. Dhanurveda, archery of the Veda, teaches aim without bracing. Tea teaches steeping without forcing. Training teaches lifting without leaks. The coherent field isn’t something you build by tightening; it’s something you notice when you stop bracing long enough to feel it.
I learned that the descent is part of the ascent. The field leaks when the pelvis isn’t contained. The pot muddies when the pour is delayed. Ritual doesn’t dictate direction; it seasons recognition. Recognition seasons ritual. Practice shapes preference; preference shapes practice. It goes both ways.
Calm doesn’t mean relaxed. Calm means organized. The field carries the release when the geometry is held without bracing. Over months and years, repetition seasons both vessel and practitioner, until the rare can meet you—at the floor, in the cup, or in the marketplace—without effort.
Coherence can be found in a walk, a warm bath, a quiet cup, or a lift held still during transitions. The ritual is personal. The field is universal. The teacher is recognition. You don’t chase the rare. You season the field so the rare can come to you.
“Ritual sculpts taste; taste sculpts ritual.”
A nice YouTube link: “The Art of Fascia Tensegrity: Moving Beyond Muscle in Tai Chi and Life” (for me, first two minutes felt enough). The mesh bag… fascia.
I am not an internal arts master. I am recognizing doors. Perhaps that is the most teachable stage of all. Ultimately, it is not about doors. It is about the room. But then, the doors are forgotten.
Recognition leads to no leaks.
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Getting in the zone: Sumo Deadlifts, Archery, Behavior and Beyond. Dhanurveda… What is a Vedic Pandit?… really
Related to Yajur veda. Divine engineering. Generally viewed as founded upon archery. It’s all interconnected. Sumo, Archery, Psychodynamics. Pujas, life in general. The art of purification… How to transcend in life.
It’s all right there. Modern physicist knew it. fundamentals of technology, physiology, physics, ufos, planes of existence… everything
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“Hippie Hindus” All That Glitters is Gold? Spiritual Maturity
A recent comment:
I have been reading the Mahabharata, now some things bother me about it, why is it that great sages are feared so much because they curse them , aren’t they supposed to be more compassionate,
And those people all seem superhuman like they get pierced by 100 arrows and don’t die, i really enjoy reading this but some things just blow my mind
And I have the feeling you hold back on things because it is too much for people what I absolutely understand
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Laws of Manu… do they make sense to you? on some level?
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We have a very narrow bandwidth of what we are capable of assimilating
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Disregarding what we do not want to hear… Where is the growth
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superstition vs deeper truth… The Path of Discernment
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Vedic literature touches a deep place within, can you feel it? can you allow it? Culturing deeper levels within, Not hook line and sinker but refinement of awareness
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The sounder, the process of sounding, and the sound…Brahman Consciousness. The Guru known and unknown. When is a saint ever “a saint in his own home”?
Football stadium from the distance sounds like A…A…A… but closer up it is the quantum sounds of individuals. Like that, the syllables of the Veda are components of the One Sound A…A…A…
relativity is bondage lest it is fully integrated with A…A…A…freedom
The Guru is the gateway to freedom. The Guru is the Guru’s teachings. No separation. Beyond personality or better said, the personality is fully part of That. Yet if the perceiver is not fully integrated within themselves it is not fully seen.
full potential in the sprout A…A…A…: Mt Soma: well begun is half done. Guests are feeling it!
Pasya…See… So simple
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” —Galileo Galilei
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Discernabiity is based upon level of consciousness
Ask 3 different Vedic scholars to translate the same verse of Veda and you can get 3 very different translations. Yet they delight in one and others translation… No contradictions
What good are verses of the Veda to those whose minds have not expanded to infinity?
How to see. Pasya…See… a vedic “scholar” calling the Veda “drinking songs’ is an extreme example of the point
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Brahman, Maya, Manifest creation, the unspoken unbelievable reality
how deeply will one look? how simple/simplistic is life viewed?
potential of healthy relationship with levels of reality
ego egoless… what it really means
the world revolves around you… every point is equally the center
step through the experience… start with Matrix movie
chaitanya aspect called Brahma [mechanism with personified correlate] births Atri [mechanism with personified correlate] through which emerge individual Atma[s] … one tree, multiple seeds birthing multiple Prapancham. we do not just perceive with senses, more accurately we create our Prapancham with/through our senses.
the truth about parallel universes: parallel universes are more accurately termed Prapancham… there is only one universe.
astral echoes of truth hold truth at bay
why true masters do not reveal all they know
the value of having a tradition.
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