On Saturday, April 27, people from all around the planet will meet to meditate and practice mind-body exercises, seeking health, peace and community. Organizers say the activities expand across six continents, more than 80 nations and hundreds of cities. This does not include the individuals at home who will answer the 10 a.m. local-time callContinue reading “The New Harmonic Convergence”
Tag Archives: Qigong
The Warrior Within
Memories of my brief military life rush back to me each Veterans Day, when we honor the service of so many men and women who joined up and shipped out for military missions. I volunteered with the U.S. Air Force to learn Chinese (and some Vietnamese), and fly reconnaissance missions along China’s coast, and overContinue reading “The Warrior Within”
The Word Is Out
I wish to thank all the readers who’ve followed my trek to explore the Taoist martial and healing arts, whimsically set against the backdrop of a long-ago literary search for cosmic Truth, Jack Kerouac’s Dharma Bums. Connecting the two was a vision I conjured up seven years ago, launching this blog with a Kickstarter campaignContinue reading “The Word Is Out”
Back to Real Life
Since our last discursion, practicing with a real-life master of Chen-style taiji, I’ve been having fun with the novel I envisioned at the outset of the New Dharma Bums project, and the evolving form of it. Discovering a world turning as I go is the most enjoyable part of writing, the invention of imagined story,Continue reading “Back to Real Life”
Finding Your Way
I’ve cast a wide net with these blogs, covering weekend seminars with Tai Chi and qigong masters, connecting in Florida with teachers and students of the virtual Kwoon community, and spending a month on the road visiting devotees of the Taoist martial arts in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Arkansas. It’s been aContinue reading “Finding Your Way”
The Tai Chi Body
Back home, recharging from my November journey to the Rocky Mountains and back, I am encouraged to build a Tai Chi body – a very different physical specimen than the one I’ve been inclined to build in the gym. Forget the weights. Stop flexing and relax. No six-pack abs required. Relax the breath into theContinue reading “The Tai Chi Body”
The Top of the Mountain
Ray Abeyta and Michael Paler are tough guys who survived the mean streets of El Paso, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, respectively. They learned to protect themselves with martial arts. Then they learned to dominate with Tai Chi. Ray is a Vietnam veteran from a family of boxers, and he reveled in martial arts contestsContinue reading “The Top of the Mountain”
We Go to the Mountain
As promised, we are resuming the journey to the West, following the ardent steps of Jack Kerouac and his disaffected Beat Generation – still searching for our place in the cosmic order, dharma in the modern world. A new breed of “Dharma Bums” has risen in the United States around the Taoist martial arts, andContinue reading “We Go to the Mountain”
The Journey Continues
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them. That only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Tao Te Ching The ancient Taoist wisdom as expressed by Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Sun Tzu and other Chinese philosophers contains an abundance ofContinue reading “The Journey Continues”
What I Bring to the Table
I think most of my Facebook friends who teach and study Tai Chi and Qigong don’t know what to make of me, and my search for the New Dharma Bums. In truth, I haven’t been very clear, since the journey has not yet taken shape. But my ultimate goal is to promote the Taoist martialContinue reading “What I Bring to the Table”