Dear Fellow Explorers of the art of quiet,

In our community class today, we practiced around the elephant in the room of the mind of the modern person - our relationship with time.

In today's time-obsessed life, time is the thing nibbling away at our mental health and happiness like a chronological termite.

We're mice on wheels.

On a wheel of our own making.

I see it in myself, and all around me, but we act like all is ok.

Our lives race forward and backward, stretched thin across the illusion of minutes, hours and years.

Not a Final Fantasy

In Zen and Taoist thought, there's a dimension where the time-tyrant holds no power. There is a place where clocks throw their hands up in despair, calendars curl up for a nap.

Where time disappears.

This isn't some far-off fantasy land... It's right here, right now, in the spacious ballroom of your consciousness, where stillness is ever present.

But where you don't go.... to your cost.

This place a space within us, vast as the blue sky and as close as our next breath.

Maybe you can notice it now, like the crack between the floorboards in your floor.

It is always there. But we ignore it. 

The Quiet Rebellion

This space holds the key to a deep experience of true peace.

It's in these time intervals that we experience pauses, out breaths, time slowing.

Yin Yoga, in its purest form, is a safe space which allows us to experience this.

Be A Yin Cat, Not a Hot Dog

Meditative Yin Yoga is like being a curious cat, noticing at first, small gaps between the mouse-thoughts scurrying about.

That is stillness.

And it is always there, like the sky behind the clouds, patiently waiting for you to look up and say, "Well, hello there.."

It's a place beyond the timeline of the roles we play in the theater of life.

By attuning ourselves to your inner stillness, you discover a peace so profound that it transforms our relationship with time. 

Every day.

The more you practice, the more you can move between the world of clocks and calendars and the timeless aspect of your being.

You learn to dance with both time and timeless, finding balance between doing and being.

In this journey of self-discovery (for you are both of time and of eternity), remember that enlightenment (or just basic contentment) is not a distant shore, but the very ground beneath your feet.

Right here, right now. 

By tuning into this ever-present space of stillness and timelessness, you can find a peace so profound it makes the Buddha look positively fidgety.

It takes practice, but you have it if you look enough.

And get used to it.

Like an old comfortabe pair of shoes.

Let's waltz together into wonder, tango with tranquility, and maybe, just maybe, breakdance our way into being still.

Rebelling with you,

Dhugal

(your local TimeDisruptor)

P.S. come join me on my heart sutra retreat where we dive into this kind of stuff.