Movement practice is a hologram - our practice is not in the sum of the parts. It is not defined by the specifics, but more in the path that binds them together.

A personal challenge I am overcoming: over-valuing deep thinking & planning of classes & projects and under-appreciating simple clarity. I have tied myself up into vicious gordian knots countless times by looking for the perfect Pythagorean harmony of concepts... at the expense of asking simply - what comes next?

A better way to think about “natural” movement… and it isn’t about the movement.

The path is never as straightforward as it seems. This characterizes a real practice - you can’t fall asleep with your foot on the pedal… We aren’t interested in a process which invites somnolence; life is too short to be doing things half checked out. I’d rather play inside the hypercube of practice; here I can learn and practice to be “awake” - at the very least, so I can be awake at the moment of my death.

The origin of the design doesn’t speak to whether it is right to use it for a purpose. That’s an illusion - the fallacy of teleology of design (a trap I walk into on a regular basis). Fate happens now, and we decide what things are “made” for, by using them for such.

What it was made for is a starting point, not an ending point. It may determine parameters which constrain future repurposing, vectors which determine what directions of growth are possible. Of course, mind the origins of the thing: It speaks to respect, ancestry, humility. Bind the sacredness of origin with the pursuit of complexity.

We’ve reopened for about a month now, and I have had time to process a lot of thoughts from the prior lockdown, and see certain ideas take shape.

Meditating isn’t about being alone with your thoughts; it’s about being alone without them.