Abstract
My questioning about what it means to experience life directly—not filtered through a haze of expectations, memories, projections, fantasies, fears, beliefs about how things are, or should be—but directly and simply as it presents itself to me in this moment, has grown from many years of engagement with Buddhist meditation and T'ai Chi Ch'uan, Body-Mind Centering and Authentic Movement. The first two, ancient, well-worn paths, invite my mind to rest in the present moment, in my body, in this place. The latter, both innovative disciplines developed within the contemporary field of bodymind exploration, offer methods to explore the dialogue between form and meaning, the interface of matter with consciousness, within a spirit of acceptance and ongoing enquiry.Within the practice of these disciplines I am asking myself, what does it mean to be present, fully present in the moment? What is direct experience? What draws me away from it? What encourages or allows me to enter it?
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