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 [...]
Abandon Hope
“Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.” This would appear to be the opposite of everything we believe in, the death blow to our expectation of living a full and fulfilled life. But it isn't. [...]
T’ai Chi Chih and Non-Duality
Advaita in Sanskrit means non-duality. This is a difficult concept for most people as we look about us and see multiple objects. But what we see are only transformations not permanent forms, whether we are [...]
Spiritual Stories of the East: Mantras, Chants, Sadus & Hakuin
Volume 1, Track 3 In India, many people have a mantra given to them in an initiation by the family guru. A mantra is not a magic talisman, a sound with magic properties. Rather, [...]
The Personal, Part 2
One time, in Baroda, India, some graduate students at the local University asked me if I'd like to meet a great Yogi. Naturally, I said, "Yes." Accordingly, we came together in late afternoon and [...]
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,” [...]
General Instruction for T’ai Chi Chih
The movements, and their variations, that you are about to learn are the results of many years of experimentation. From a development of the original two movements shown me, adding the leg motions and making [...]
Foreword for Climb the Joyous Mountain
Reading Climb the Joyous Mountain, we are touched by Justin’s lyrical poetry and deep appreciation of life. He genuinely connects with people, places, and situations because he doesn’t bring a personal agenda. Justin asks, “Does [...]
Glossary for Gateway to Eastern Philosophy & Religion
AHAMKARA - The ego, the sense of "I," which Indian philosophies feel is false. AVATARS - A direct incarnation of the Lord. It is believed there have been ten Avatars (incarnations on earth) of Lord [...]