Do you workout??

[Psychoid]

if you want to explore the link between the mind and energy practice standing zen. you will learn something very important

What is standing zen?

 

[mrvn]

Good to hear that you all keep in shape!

Smoking a bowl before running or football(soccer) is nice, makes you run like you never runned before.
before baseball practice is a bad idea :lol: baseballs are hard auw!

 

[druglessdouglas]

if you want to explore the link between the mind and energy practice standing zen. you will learn something very important

What is standing zen?

start by doing 5-10 minutes a day. dont move, its very difficult not to. you have to be very relaxed or you will hurt after only a couple of minutes.

look at the way the body and legs are held. there is no "right" way to stand because everybody is different

and you dont have to do it in the woods. your house is fine

 

[restin]

Do you have to count/practice emptiyng the mind etc.?

 

[Forkbender]

Do you have to count/practice emptiyng the mind etc.?

No.

The way my teacher explains it: "Body knows." Don't do anything, don't try to stop anything from happening, just be.

 

[GOD]

"just be."

The problem is that most people are shit..........

 

[Forkbender]

So then they will be shit until they are sick of it. So what?

 

[GOD]

"So then they will be shit until they are sick of it. So what?"

We all have to live in that seemingly endless shit . Thats why the planet is sick , and thats why i`m so much against hokus pokus and esoteric shit . Sometime we as a race have to grow up or we will drown in that shit .

 

[Forkbender]

But a practice like this can make you aware that you are shit, while someone telling you you are shit usually doesn't help one bit. It is a technique you practice, there is no theory or esotericism connected to it.

 

[GOD]

We are all shit , some people more than others . Lets try to be less shit and not more .

 

[ararat]

We are all shit , some people more than others . Lets try to be less shit and not more .

that's what I've been thinking about last few days. I'd just not say it that drastically: we are all idiots and always will be.
this has a bit of "I know that I know nothing".

 

[GOD]

What about - I know that i know nothing so i`m going to take care and try to do the best ?

 

[ararat]

What about - I know that i know nothing so i`m going to take care and try to do the best ?

that's the extented and thus better version

 

[druglessdouglas]

having a bad day god?

 

[GOD]

No thanks . I`m having a wonderfull one .

 

[druglessdouglas]

are you implying Standing Zen is esoteric hocus pocus now. i dont understand what you are saying [god]

 

[GOD]

Certainly not . I think its a good thing . If it looked like i was slagging it .... sorry . I havent / wasnt making any comments about it . Zen and meditation is not esoteric shit , they are very good tools for physical and mental health and growth .

 

[restin]

The way my teacher explains it: "Body knows." Don't do anything, don't try to stop anything from happening, just be.

I'm sorry, Fork, I overlooked your post. :? Thank you.

 

[Carebear]

Slipknot - People = Shit

Although i don`t feel the same way, i understand the frustration.

 

[druglessdouglas]

Certainly not . I think its a good thing . If it looked like i was slagging it .... sorry . I havent / wasnt making any comments about it . Zen and meditation is not esoteric shit , they are very good tools for physical and mental health and growth .

my apologies. i didnt think you would slag off meditation

now im off to sacrifice this goat

the mind will try and think of any excuse to do something other than stand still. after a while that changes though. it gets easier. as my Sifu says [on moving during standing zen] "monkey mind, monkey mind"
its very usefull for (among other things) developing mental stamina. you learn not to make excuses