Month: November 2023
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The Huatou Practice And The Warrior Ethos
What Is The Huatou? 1. The huatou takes all existential questions and condenses them down to one essential existential question. 2. That essential question is: “Who am I?” or “What is Reality?” 3. Finally, it takes the essential question and compresses it, at best, into a single character. Like: “Who?” or “Wu?” or “What?” Huatou…
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The Hero’s Journey As An Account Of Maya
Dear D, Charitably, we can regard the hero’s journey from a number of different, and quite valid, points of view. There’s no problem with this. Maybe it’s a myth of Growing Up (in Wilber’s sense); maybe one of Cleaning Up or Growing Up. Earlier today, I offered one such interpretation, which seems straightforward. It is…
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A Symphony Of Movement
Dear A., Puzzle It can seem that the depth of seated practice must, somehow, be “replicated” during the course of one’s ordinary affairs. When movement ensues, however, it can seem as if the Self is “absent” or “distant.” So, what is not understood? Misconception One thing underlying this puzzle is a misconception: it’s the expectation,…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 