Four Years of Impressions, Each Topic a Lifetime

Submitted by zkrebs on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 7:22pm

For the last couple of years I have had a big whiteboard hanging in my room. At various points I put it up and took it down. Embarassment is a reason to take it down. Pride is a reason to put it up. Its difficult to share what is inexplicably "between the lines" to other people. Have never really been good at it. This is an attempt to share what has helped me along the way. Feel free to take what is useful, and leave what is not.
Perception Checklist:

Extending one practice to many?
Fast/Slow?
Directional Awareness - up/down/side/inside/outside?
A wee bit too comfortable?
Weight in center of feet?
Rotating like a wheel?
Manifested through the fingertips?
Spirit soaring?
Healing, maintaining, or evolving?
Breakthrough capacity felt here?
In stage of knowing but not knowing?
Study/Practice/Teach this?
Left nothing to mystery except mystery itself?
Went far past boredom in this particular area?
Following the way?
Neutral instead of arrogant?
Complely lacking pride in your facial expression?
Standing like an emperor, and sitting like one too?
Resistant to change?
Open?
Afraid?
Holding Beginners Mind?
Whole Body Breathing?
Inside/Outside the same?
Patient?
Tried many perspectives?
What does the movement reveal?
Condition Diagnosed for today?
Panoramic Awareness?
Linear/Circular?
Spherical Fullness?
70/30 or 50/50?
Resolution Made (say "I am practicing now") ?
24/7 Awareness without Justification?
Muscle/Bone/Energy level?
yin/yang?
Efforting in excess or deficiency?
Strength in relaxation?
Looking at opposites?
Applying these principles to life?
Seeking unknowns?
Taking things personally?
Doing good for others and yourself?
Hearing by feeling?
Seeing by feeling?
Union of heart-mind?
Vitality, Energy, Spirit all in harmony?
Acupuncture points opened?
Chi flowing?
Farsighted/Nearsighted like Musashi?
Grounded discipline in approach?
Cup empty or full right now?
What is possible?
Locked in, blinded?
Remember your medicines?
Small world or big world in this situation?
Moving backwards to move forwards?
Considering that you are wrong, very wrong?
Extending and relaxing?
Qi Cultivation -> circulation -> purification revealed in practice?
Constantly aware of conditions while they change, forget?
Perpetual Motion?
Joy in every moment?
Emotions or thoughts, or combination?
From point draw line affect area?

Its important to understand the notion of dependency to progress further in your practice. Each principle is built on the last one. Because if you truly understood one, why would it be one place and not another? One thing, all things. No movement, no movement! Where did these realizations come from? My teacher, his teacher? Books? They are all about the same exact thing. That is what we are practicing. Real human beings know about these things. Its not a comprehensive list, but its at least a year of training. Why not start right now?