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Bring the Practice All the Way to Life

Bring the Practice All the Way to Life
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Always thinking, "fuck this, fuck that..." what a waste.
Bring the Practice All the Way to Life.
You bring your life to the practice and bring the practice to life.

Art is ritual. It's extremely delicate and sensitive to do art. The art of life.
It requires great patience and presence. Just to trust the process and follow the ritual.
You get to make up the ritual.
The art is an offering.
An offering to the unknown. A full-blown offering.
An offering in which nothing is left on the table. And even the things that are unresolved are allowed for and completely incorporated.

It's a wholehearted offering. An immersion in process that is an offering to the life of the world. The life of the world which is the untouchable.
Which is in the background.
Which to a certain degree determines the success of a soul.

The success of a soul is much more important than the success of the world.
The success of a soul is one where the plants that grow out of the ground are seen and heard for what they are.
Their medicine is received.

The true economy is a gift economy. It's a great offering. A quiet, and a noisy offering.
It's free of charge. And full of gift.
And the response comes in kind. Full-blown. Wholehearted. In Kind.

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Disciple of Chen Zhonghua in Chen Style Taijiquan and Hunyuan Qigong. Originally from Oakland, CA in Ohlone and Miwok territory. Currently living in Brooklyn, NY on stolen Canarsee Lenape land.