SHACK 59 OPPORTUNITY

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Along the road, the highways and byways, the twisting pathways, sometimes beckoning to a vista of astounding beauty and at times hard rocks and stumbling places, places to rest from the drudgery and or to admire the view, sheltered caves and groves to either run into from a storm or the heat and cold of the day. 

Such a place was my inner sanctum. There was a Dojo / Zendo   places to do Judo and other arts and or practice Zen.  There was a particular teacher who was a great person and said to me. Once when I had an astounding 'break through, Ko Satori ( a minor enlightenment, an Ah Ha, usually an intellectual event, however leaving space for debris to fall out) on a particular one I went to the Sensei feeling I had achieved satori and he said 'sit down have a cup of tea, now you will never be the same, the way you will become is not the way of the world'.  Instantly this put me back to NDE/ OBE and meditation experiences, I felt again torn, and yet this time strangely free, I knew I had to let myself grow into the space and not fill it.

Then changing to Taichi, Kungfu and latterly to Qigong, and meeting a wise Sifu, and a meeting with the late Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and the late KrishnaMurti, the monks at Samyeling, Findhorn and various other sites and places convinced me my path was to work my way through the world, I never became a disciple to anyone, my Sifu and Sensei would not allow attachment, they would kick you out if  one tried, they said to face the world, not hide or run, walk through it, they gave one tools, you had to dig and cultivate the garden. You had to become a spiritual warrior. The fight was not so much the world but the schisms in oneself. It was ultimately a path of reconciliation and uniting polarities to become complementaries.

And so to SHACK 60

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