Mindfulness has always come easily to me, or I should say I’ve been drawn to it for a long time. The concept of “what is” made sense to me in my early 20’s when having a discussion with my father about goals in life. We were having some conversation at my grandparent’s house, about what […]
Tag: Determinism
Sharing the Path: Politics and Reality
I have often wondered how my background academic educational career in International Relations connects to the part of me that writes books on the body, mindfulness and philosophy. We are used to compartmentalizing different fields and pursuits instead of seeing them as part of a whole. It has only been in light of the recent […]
The Things We Have To Do
We have to do what we are doing, the things we see ourselves doing, where our body is, now, its physical, weighted placement in space, bones moving at joints, how and as they do: this action, these actions. It can be only those, not others. Can’t know why, just the way it is, all of […]
True Nature
True nature is what is, not what we believe should be (if it’s not what’s happening). We must abide. There are no options other than what nature provides. Bad guys are part of nature. They exist equally to all else. When they will be gone, we will know because we will see. Movement is movement. It all […]
Alan Watts: short and sweet
This is a wonderful little clip that describes precisely what I write about in my books and on this blog. I hope you will have a listen! Book Information
Actions Are Involuntary
Involuntary. What do I mean? I mean that the event occurs without a will. How can we prove this? Because all our bodily movements occur, from our perspective, no differently than our breath or heartbeat. They’re just happening, and they are our only actions. Actions feel like something mental, so that is how we identify […]
It Is Easy to Know What We Should Be Doing
It is easy to know what we should be doing with our life, how we should be spending our time. It is as effortless as identifying the weather. Do we ever consider what the weather today “should” be? Or, do we accept it as is, grasping that there are no options for the conditions of […]
The Present Tense
We are born into the present tense. It is then the present tense for the rest of our life. From our perspective, we live in one long moment because we cannot sense the shifts of what we think of as one moment changing into the next. We can only perceive this moment. Those incremental differences […]
Can “I” Be Somewhere My Body Is Not?
My work is based on the fact that “I” must be where my body is at all times. Is there a separate “me” from this organism called Jill Eng? Some might argue so in philosophic and religious circles, but I do not see a way around nondualism. When struggling with emotions of frustration, fear, worry, […]
Riding Planet Earth
I believe we can more easily give up effort, or at least question its necessity, when we know there is something else doing the work for us. This is very much what my work is about, being that this mindfulness practice has evolved from my experience as an Alexander Technique teacher where the primary focus […]
