The Return of the Makka Ho

Tottoro tot. tor. o!

I've returned to doing the Japanese Makka Ho sequences to freshen the body and mind. Something I learned while I was studying shiatsu a while back. I always feel the body flush with freshness and a blockage-free spring after doing these sequences. A tense-free body results in a tense-free mind.

I start with a breath/meridian movement to enliven my midi-chlorian count. Little padawan does his training in the meantime.


Attempt 1:

Attempt 2:

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

                            

I watch the ripples change their size

But never leave the stream

Of warm impermanence and

So the days float through my eyes

But still the days seem the same

Annica.

Grasping + Letting Go

Handful.

Often what occurs around us reflects our current mind state. As I sit with little one, a desire for him to sit, learn, absorb, and practice with me arises. So misguided. How to impose my desires on such a free-flowing not-of-my-self spirit? I can't really control his desires to move about, play and be. It just causes movement and friction and he just wrestles free. The same belief in control arises towards the 6 senses doors and their objects and the same wrestling and friction result. So you let go and let baby do his thing. You let go and let the field of experience do its thing. You just baby-proof the whole joint first.