The Introduction to Double Palm Change

The Double Palm Change is the second of Ba Gua's eight mother palm changes and it contains the foundation of all the yin (soft) techniques of Ba Gua Zhang. The I Ching or book of change on which ba gua is based states that "the receptive (yin) completes the creative (yang)" and as such the Double Palm Change builds on and completes the Single Palm Change.

Hsing-I Chuan or Mind Form Boxing is said to be the oldest of the internal martial arts of China and also one of its most effective fighting methods. Hsing-I fuses a relaxed, open body with a clear, focused mind - free of any gaps or breaks in one's intent. This creates the ability to react to a situation with the appropriate response without ever losing control of one's stability of mind.

The Dao of Sprouting

生之道

The three months of spring are called
putting forth and displaying.
Heaven and Earth all sprout.
The ten thousand things become lush
At night to bed, early to rise.
Briskly walk around the courtyard.
Let your hair down and relax the body in
order to make that which is of the heart/mind sprout.
Sprout but do not kill.  Give but do not take. 
Reward but do not punish.
This is the Spring compliance of qi
(and) the cultivation of the Dao of sprouting.
To oppose these principles injures the liver.
(Consequently) Summer will bring cold changes,
(and) there will be little to offer one's growth.
(Neijing Chapter 2)

A few months back I sent out an alert for "Daylight Savings Time" ...a

month early...

Someone said ( but it beats me who) that "This time like all times is a very good time, if we but know what to do with it.

                     I'm in Pretty Good Health Except for My Cancer ...

I realize on a personal level that I am not a statistic, and I am not afraid of the future !

I know from experience that Hopelessness and Helplessness are illusions, period.

Wrong and wasted thinking that saps our very life-force from us.

It was a soft and lovely revelation towards freedom in my soul when I realized :

“I wasn’t the only one who has to die” !

Impermanence is an integral part of life; for permanence is an illusion.

That, and “busyness” is but a waste of time and thus a waste of life itself,

keeping our attention from the deeper purposes.

The bottom line, where the rubber meets the road, is that we are all in the same boat

upon this sea-of-life.