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Moola Bandha is an energetic/psychic process in which the energy laying dormant at the base of the spine is awakened, initiating a series of inner alchemical transformations ...

It's been snowing here in Boulder: gentle, slow, sweetly-magical. Perfect days for inviting friends over for tea ...
In A Taoist Tea Ceremony, Robert Santee shares the meaning of various aspects of the formal ceremony, including how the tea itself is taken sip by sip, with periods of sitting meditation in between. The scent of incense and the sound of a zheng (Chinese zither) intermingle with the taste of the tea -- so all the senses are involved.
This Taoist tea ceremony integrated all of the senses and the mind into the process of drinking tea in the here and now ... To be able watch this entire dance before your eyes was a pleasure indeed. Yet, amongst the entire changing process, stillness permeated the hall.
Read more...Was whirling around the corner on my bicycle, all caught up in this or that mental cogitation -- thoughts trying to solve themselves -- when some angel induced me to lift my gaze ...
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Double Play
Dozens of full-bellied
silver geese
congregate here on the winter
abandoned baseball field
beneath an endless
azure sky.
Shift and chortle quietly
content to feed on half-
frozen grass, drink from small
pools of water gathered
here and there where cleated feet
dug deep en route to autumn's
victory or defeat.
~ emr

In honor of Winter Solstice -- or maybe just because I'm a cat lover .... in either case, what I wanna know is: which is which?
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