Spiritual Stories of the East: Who & What You Are
Volume 1, Track 7 It seems to me that the great task in life is to find out who and what you are. Once that is discovered and your true nature uncovered, your troubles [...]
Cosmic Rhythm
It is interesting to speculate about Cosmic Rhythm. Although Buddhism says all effects come from causes (there being no “first cause”), many events seem the result of cyclic, not causal, influences. The plum blossom pushes [...]
Around the Platter Variation (left)
As the hands move left and the weight begins to shift forward, the hands move to cradle a ball (Figure 2) and are held that way until they reach the halfway point in the circle. [...]
Kashmir Shaivism
Now we're going to talk about Kashmir Shaivism, which may appeal to you more than any of the six insights or Darshanas. Kashmir is located in the northern tip of India. While the founder is [...]
Justin’s Instructional Video Streaming
Boost immunity • Increase energy • Find peace T'ai Chi Chih is an evidence-based method for finding inner peace, wellness, joy and better health. Consistent practice keeps you centered, grounded and calm in difficult [...]
The Best Reason to Practice
Karma is an important and frequently-used word, so it is important to understand what it means. In the Sanskrit language, karma means “action,” that and no more. So, when we glibly speak of “our karma,” [...]
Final Word for Heightened Awareness
The true aim of spiritual practice is to ultimately culture mind, breaking the associative thinking pattern that results in the creation of innumerable attachments and the making of new karmas. This is what Patanjali, sometimes [...]
Monkeys and Holy Men
Often, while staying on the second floor of a two-family house in Baroda, India, I noticed numerous monkeys watching me intently outside the window of my room. I asked my host Kaushik why this was [...]
Spiritual Stories of the East: Forgetting Self, Self Clinging
Volume 1, Track 12 We live in a dualistic world where something is not big, it is small, and where a statement is either true or false. It is a world of either or. [...]
Moving Meditation
Of all the meditations, it seems the ones most fitting for busy, modern people are the moving meditations. It is easier to move joyously than it is to sit quietly and attempt to control the [...]
Justin Stone Speaks: Track 6
T’ai Chi Chih is inner-oriented. It is not a performance or a dance. Indeed, the beauty of T’ai Chi Chih is far different from the graceful actions of the dance or the threatening movements [...]
Evolution through Chi
Zen training has a good deal in common with T'ai Chi Chih training because both Zen and TCC do not feel that words are important. Zen is a transmission without the benefit of words or [...]