Awareness Through Movement #203

Gluing The Lungs Part 3 - EXPLORING INNER SPACE

“It is possible to improve the ability of the body with everything you do. If you increase the discriminations from time to time, there isn’t anything one is involved with that does not improve.

Everything improves.

It is possible to improve the body’s ability by calligraphy. For example, in Zen one is taught to write with a brush until it is done perfectly. When this is accomplished the whole body improves to the feet, to the breathing, and to everything. It is possible to improve this skill by improving the relationship of the eyes and the neck muscles. If the movements of the head on the body improve, everything improves progressively. It also is possible to improve everything by breathing.

In the beginning, with each of these parts ways, the improvements are immediate and significant, but gradually they become smaller and smaller. It becomes necessary to invest more and more work until it passes into a greater degree of refinement and discrimination. Gradually the improvement becomes slower. If there will be such improvement, that by living itself, life will improve — it is necessary to gradually do parts each of these ways activities so progress in them is great. And then, continue on to the second way the next activity.

For improvement to arrive at the greatest speed possible, later return to this cycle the previous activity. Then, each time there can be an additional increment of progress. Now, we are doing these lessons to get from breathing that which is necessary to improve stability and the relationship between parts of the body. We already did this a few times. Now we will continue with it in an even clearer fashion.”

yes, it's Vita and Asanga friendly :)