The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima—the “eternal present.
H.E. DaveyTags: past future age old yoga meditation young eternal ki nakamura-tempu shin-shin-toitsu-do
If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for dogs, cats, and chimpanzees but doesn’t work quite so well for women and men. Without the capacity to freely shape our own lives, much as a sculptor might carve stone, we inevitably slip into negativity and depression.
H.E. DaveyTags: yoga meditation potential negativity ki nakamura-tempu shin-shin-toitsu-do
Using the combined, integrated force of the mind and body is more efficient than using one without the other. Since the body can only exist in the present, that’s where the mind should be too (unless we deliberately choose to contemplate the past or future). At the same time, the body needs to be healthy and in optimum operating condition so that it can respond effectively to the mind’s directives.
H.E. DaveyTags: present mind health yoga meditation body ki nakamura-tempu shin-shin-toitsu-do mind-and-body-integration
A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person’s unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.
H.E. DaveyTags: talent courage judgment yoga meditation self-mastery attention vitality life-force ki nakamura-tempu shin-shin-toitsu-do
Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement—the art of living.
H.E. DaveyTags: art writing yoga meditation skill creative calligraphy ki nakamura-tempu shin-shin-toitsu-do art-of-living
In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by their proponents. Students study how to make tea, perform martial arts, or write with a brush in the most skillful way possible to express themselves with maximum efficiency and minimum strain. Through this efficient, adroit, and creative performance, they arrive at art. But if they continue to delve even more deeply into their art, they discover principles that are truly universal, principles relating to life itself. Then, the art of brush writing becomes shodo—the “Way of the brush”—while the art of arranging flowers is elevated to the status of kado—the “Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have approached the universal through the particular.
H.E. DaveyTags: art flowers tea yoga meditation universal efficiency martial-arts do ways budo ki nakamura-tempu shin-shin-toitsu-do ikebana kado shodo universal-principles way-of-living
Realizing that our minds control our bodies while our bodies reflect our minds amounts to understanding the most fundamental aspects of ourselves. It further equals a comprehension of the relationship between our “tools.” And since the mind and body are interrelated, this understanding makes it easier to see why coordinating them is a practical way of using these tools to greatest effect—a way of using the mind and body to live our lives as art.
H.E. DaveyTags: art mind living yoga meditation body ki nakamura-tempu shin-shin-toitsu-do coordination-of-mind-and-body
Courage is often associated with aggression, but instead should be seen as a willingness to act from the heart.
Donna QuesadaTags: buddhism zen spirituality yoga consciousness-raising
When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation.
Donna QuesadaTags: buddhism zen spirituality yoga consciousness-raising
Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it’s impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are capable of worrying only about an event that has already transpired or one that may take place in the future (although the occurrence might have just happened or may be about to happen in the next instant). The present moment contains no time or space for worry.
H.E. DaveyTags: present worry yoga meditation k
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