by Cheng Tong | Jan 31, 2019 | Stillness
To cultivate stillness, we sit, we breath, we let thoughts drop off and dissolve. We hear the bird chirp. We feel the rumble of the truck as it passes by our home moving snow to the side of the road. ?We breath again. What could be more simple? To sit, to... 
by Cheng Tong | Jan 17, 2019 | Stillness
I am often asked by students how long a meditation should last, especially after I tell them that we sit for between two and three hours in the evening at the Five Immortals Temple, in Hubei Province, China. Do they need to sit that long? Gee, Michael, I don?t... 
by Cheng Tong | Jan 2, 2019 | Stillness
It is unfortunate that the perception of stillness, and the quiet that results from daily devotionals such as meditation and Taiji, is one of passivity and bliss. While this reads well in poems, and plays well in movies, it is neither the purpose nor the...