Two Ways to Know the Body

Jim Freda Two Ways to Know the Body: Abstract Reason vs. Direct Experience Through my entire life I was never interested in American or Western history. I studied the history of Japan and Korea at Columbia and then for eight more years at UCLA. That was a long time ago, but I have been […]
Learning Perception

Dare Sohei heres a working list of things i do and have done to think/perceive the way i do. i come from a pretty normal background — poverty, depression, anxiety, no college, lots of illnesses, addiction etc. my saving grace was probably the things that also screwed me up, which was animistic perception […]
Removing, Not Adding

Craig Mallett We often say in the tradition that the Daoist way is one of removing, not adding. Yet the first thing we do is learn a million practices. So what do we mean by this? It’s useful to remind ourselves that the exercises (and the way we exercise) are the tools we use to aid […]