Copyright Lance
Kinseth, Aiki Flow, 2012
THAT WHICH IS said to be “yoga” or ‘tai chi” or “aiki” is
likely constrained by our willingness to be constrained. We are social animals. Buddha people might wear Buddha clothes
and eat Buddha food. Birds
and mountains do not follow a list of admonitions, and yet they are said to
have Buddha-nature.
This is not to say that there is no benefit in subscription
to a system, but the system is not the thing persisting.
There is a place in body-mind where yoga, tai chi and aiki
fade away, perhaps sustaining as guideposts along the way but not as the
essence of these practices.
Yoga, tai chi and aiki can provoke a lot of chatter—endless styles
and variations. The calmness of
restorative-yin practice likely appears to offer a profound gateway for
listening, opening, fading away…
When doing the yoga that you know, perhaps try doing the
yoga that you do not know. Try to
do what you are not doing. What
might begin to appear? What is in
between?
Perhaps NOT giving up body-mind practices so that there in no
yoga, no tai chi, or no aiki, but rather, a yoga-no that reaches beyond style and variation, and asks
again and again,
What is This Single Grace
Persisting?
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