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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment: March 2010
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment. Sunday, March 28, 2010. A raw and intense look at my experience here. Also, just a disclaimer. I can be crude, superficial, and silly, but I am very emotionally open with myself and others. This email in particular takes all the masks off. Thanks for reading. Hah, i guess i found some words. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A Path to Mastery. Seeking Our True Potential. YMAA California Retreat Center Journal. A raw and intense look at my experience here.
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment: A raw and intense look at my experience here
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment. Sunday, March 28, 2010. A raw and intense look at my experience here. Also, just a disclaimer. I can be crude, superficial, and silly, but I am very emotionally open with myself and others. This email in particular takes all the masks off. Thanks for reading. Hah, i guess i found some words. March 30, 2010 at 3:39 PM. I thank you for your openness and honesty. i like keeping up with you guys, i think that it is an extremely challenging and admirable pursuit that y...
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment: November 2009
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment. Wednesday, November 4, 2009. For those who don't, I can easily understand your initial shock, disappointment, confusion, and even outrage. I respectfully request that you step back from your feelings for a moment and consider what this situation actually meant to me. After two months of hard physical training, I started to wonder if I should conduct another experiment. Shifu talks about how while many monks in ancient times refrained from eating meat, some in the ...
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment: One Year
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment. Sunday, May 30, 2010. On May 31st, 2009, I ended my old life in San Francisco and started my new life here at the center. This week marks the passage of one year. This will be a particularly lengthy (even by my prolific standards! Dissertation processing my reflections on this time. Before going on, I'd like to point out that during his visit, Master Gao (Shifu's Taiji teacher from 50 years ago) lectured Shifu at length about how wrong it is for him to treat his disci...
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment: Perception
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment. Friday, April 9, 2010. That blew my mind pretty hard, and as I go through the same training, I wonder how my perception and feeling will change. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Path to Mastery. Seeking Our True Potential. YMAA California Retreat Center Journal. View my complete profile.
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment: Another rambling news update
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment. Tuesday, May 25, 2010. Another rambling news update. Now that Craig and Rii, our documentary film makers and video shooting/editing instructors have departed, life at the center returns to its normal, albeit frenetic and busy, routine. It's been unseasonably cold and rainy for the past week. Shifu said May is usually hot and dry, but we've rarely had days above 60 degrees, and its been raining more often than not. I shall conclude there for now! May 27, 2010 at 2:40 PM.
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment: April 2010
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment. Friday, April 9, 2010. That blew my mind pretty hard, and as I go through the same training, I wonder how my perception and feeling will change. Monday, April 5, 2010. The last post was pretty intense, and I have another intense post I wanted to share. I thought I'd break it up with some of the more mundane happenings lately. We've had a few visitors over the last month. Manu left yesterday, and he will be missed. Also, our little Meowgi caught and ate his first mole!
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment: Phase one of training is over
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment. Sunday, May 2, 2010. Phase one of training is over. I'm very excited to start the new routine tomorrow. We still have a good amount of time for conditioning with upper body, jumping, and some other stuff, but I really enjoy it when it's not too much. Much of the time in the next phase is devoted to learning Long Fist and White Crane sequences, hitting bags, and practicing the basic techniques of our first weapon, the staff. May 5, 2010 at 2:35 PM. A Path to Mastery.
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment: A busy month so far
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment. Tuesday, May 18, 2010. A busy month so far. This has been an incredibly eventful month. There are a number of different things I wish to share, so I'm just going to mind dump, at length. Enjoy! You don't appreciate anything. You take everything for granted, you don't appreciate people or anything in your life! You are so lazy! This morning, we were invited to go hiking on Bear Butte (indigenous name translated to 'really steep rock.' awesome! May 18, 2010 at 8:16 PM.
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment: Intermission
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Cultivating Meaning and Fulfillment. Monday, April 5, 2010. The last post was pretty intense, and I have another intense post I wanted to share. I thought I'd break it up with some of the more mundane happenings lately. We've had a few visitors over the last month. With the best accent we could manage. While counting repetitions during staff training, he normally counted in German. One day I asked him to count in Canadian. Without missing a beat, he began "1, eh? Manu left yesterday, and he will be missed.
