Sneaking Past The Ego

I am, frankly, a little confused and spun. The new house, new possibilities with Jason, new business and career challenges and opportunities…

All of these challenge me to continue asking the questions “Who am I?” and “What is true?”

I’ve asked those questions to the end of the line before, unraveling the ego cocoon. But if you are alive and have a body, it will knit itself back together again — thus the need for constant meditation and internal work.

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As I experiment with doing the Five Tibetans integrated with the Five Minute Miracle, I still see no downside — whatever advantages derive from doing them in direct sequence (working with accumulated fatigue from the previous exercises?) would seem to be compensated for — at the least — by the power of re-centering five times a day. All I have to do is to see how each exercise affects my breathing, and stay with that. Then, ask a secret part of myself to be observing my breathing ALL THE TIME.

I remember Pendekar Paul De Thours as a man whose movement was magical. I have never in my life seen martial arts techniques where I couldn’t even figure out what was happening. His techniques looked FAKE…until he did them on you. Then it was as if you had an invisible third leg you’d never known was there, and he knew just how to sweep it.

Until Stevan Plinck, the Pendekar’s senior student (before he was excommunicated. Yeah, martial arts communities can be like that) explained the principles of “Base…