Day x+11: Yin&Yang

I would love to share with you my favorite Alan Watts’ speech (you can skip the chillstep music if you like). As someone from the West, his take on ancient Eastern philosophies is extraordinarily deep and mind opening. He helps me to see more and more how dualities exist within each other, that everything is…

Day x+10: Waves

I was watching the waves yesterday and was thinking, wow we are just like the waves! Each one of us have our ups and downs, dancing with our own curves, chasing after something, and eventually collapse on the shore. But when you zoom out, you start to see the patterns, the desires and sufferings that…

Day x+8: My spiritual teacher

I look at his top, his waving branches, shaking uncontrollably in the wind. He seems a bit fragile and can be easily broken by those playful birds. Then I look at his trunk, sturdy and robust, firmly rooted in Mother Earth. He looks like the calmest and coolest being I’ve ever known. I start to…

Day x+3: Breathe

I start to take notice of my breath. I pay attention to how it feels inside my chest, where the lungs are. I associate this soothing feeling in my trachea and the expansion of my chest with becoming bigger, calmer and refreshed. I like to sense the subtle tinglings spreading down through my legs, in…