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Awakening and Healing

Austin Tang — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 00:08:27 +0000

The guard or the monkey’s shadow?
While practicing mindfulness, don’t be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself. Whenever a wholesome thought arises, acknowledge it:
“A wholesome thought has just arisen.” And if an unwholesome thought arises, acknowledge it as well: “An unwholesome thought has just arisen.”
Don’t dwell on it or try to get rid of it, however much you don’t like it. To acknowledge it is enough. If you have departed, then you must know that you have departed, and if you are still there, know that you are still there. Once you have reached such an awareness, there will be nothing you need fear anymore.
When I mentioned the guard at the
emperor’s gate, perhaps you imagined a front corridor with two doors, one entrance and one exit, with your mind as the guard. Whatever feeling or thought enters, you are aware of its entrance, and when it leaves, you are aware of its exit. But the image has a shortcoming: it suggests that those who enter and exit the corridor are different from the guard. In fact our thoughts and feelings are us.
They are a part of ourselves. There is a temptation to look upon
them, or at least some of them, as an enemy force which is trying to disturb the concentration and understanding of your mind. But, in fact, when we are angry, we ourselves are anger. When we are happy, we ourselves are happiness. When we have certain thoughts, we are those thoughts. We are both the guard and the visitor at the same time. We are both the mind and the observer of the mind.
Therefore, chasing away or dwelling on any thought isn’t the important thing. The important thing is to be aware of the thought. This observation is not an objectification of the mind: it does not establish distinetion between subject and object. Mind does not grab on to mind; mind does not push mind away. Mind can only observe itself. This observation isn’t an observation of some object outside and independent of the observer.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
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Happy Groundhog Day

Austin Tang — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 11:57:04 +0000

Groundhog Day (Pennsylvania German: Grund’sau dåk, Grundsaudaag, Grundsow Dawg, Murmeltiertag; Nova Scotia: Daks Day) is a popular tradition celebrated in Canada and the United States on February 2nd. It derives from the Pennsylvania Dutch superstition that if a groundhog (Marmota monax, also called “woodchuck”; Deitsch: Grundsau, Grunddax, Dax) emerging from its burrow on this day sees its shadow due to clear weather, it will retreat to its den and winter will persist for six more weeks, and if it does not see its shadow because of cloudiness, spring will arrive early. While the tradition remains popular in modern times, studies have found no consistent correlation between a groundhog seeing its shadow or not and the subsequent arrival time of spring-like weather.

The weather lore was brought from German-speaking areas where the badger (German: Dachs) is the forecasting animal. This appears to be an enhanced version of the lore that clear weather on the Christian Holy Day of Candlemas forebodes a prolonged winter.

The Groundhog Day ceremony held at Punxsutawney in western Pennsylvania, centering around a semi-mythical groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil, has become the most attended. Grundsow Lodges in Pennsylvania Dutch Country in the southeastern part of the state celebrate them as well. Other cities in the United States and Canada have also adopted the event.

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Mana Hashimoto Dance Performance- Feb. 25, 2014 in NYC

admin — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:01:21 +0000

Light, Shadow and Wind

Choreographed and Performed by Mana Hashimoto

Date and Time: Feb 25th (Tue) 2014 at 7 30p.m

Ticket: $12 at Dixon Place

Address: 161 Chrystie street between Rivington and Delancey

Theater Phone Number: (212) 219-0736

“Light and shadow and wind constantly surround us. Shadow exists because of light. The inner nature of light is to create shadow. Wind delivers atmosphere and nature to us. Light, shadow and wind are eternal, from past to present, from the present to the future in our consciousness and our subconscious sees.Through this piece, I would like to expose light, shadow and wind which exist in you and in me.”

Mana Hashimoto, a choreographer and a dancer who was born in Tokyo. She came to United States in 1993 and studied jazz composition at Berklee music of academy and New England conservatory of music. She studied at Martha Graham school in New York in 98. In the same year she lost her sight completely due to undiagnosed optic nerve atrphy. Since then, her journey serching her own approach to dance began.

She offers the dance workshop called, “Dance without sight” which focus on the other senses such as smell, touch, sounds not using the sight informations.

Both of her performances and workshops are wide well recieved in U.S, Japan and Europe.

Mana Hashimot’s website: http://www.manahashimoto.com

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