THE PROCESS

A PERSONAL ADVENTURE INTO LIFE

I started to title this The Discipline, but that would likely run off possible readers. This course I follow is much more than discipline. It is a way of life.

This is not work or obligation. Just the opposite.

I venture to say that, at a documented age 84, I quite likely would not be here today but for The Process, and if I were, I probably would not want to be.

I’ll keep this “way of life” as brief as possible, without sacrificing the essence. I am speaking first of a mental exercise, then physical. The basis of my Process is Qigong. I combine yoga, tai chi, and general martial arts exercises combined with a Zen-like meditative mindset.

I am not designed to do sitting meditation. Only on rare occasion am I inclined to just sit. I am an active meditator.

The center of The Process is mental with motion. It is focused on the Spirit, the Divine Presence, the mystery of the ever present “Other”, the great reality which underlies all we normally know as “real”. These thoughts pervade the entire Process, but without effort. It is non-thinking thought. It just is.

There is no mental effort, only focus. When I find myself “working” at keeping the focus, I stop. When I put all mental activity on hold, it is with no emotion. The only awareness is of breathing and the location and movement of hands, feet, body position, balance.