Tiger Path
Tiger Path, from drowning and treading water toward swimming, works through daily habits and care of the body, radically shifting our allegiance from outside voices to ourselves. Its axis is from information-seeking to practice, and its practices include self-trust cultivation, shamatha meditation and friendliness.
Moving from Drowning (Stage 1) and Treading Water (Stage 2) towards Swimming (Stage 3)
In Tiger Path we engage with all of our daily habits. Brush and floss our teeth, exercise and build our body strong, eat well with food that nourishes us, listen to our body and what it wants and needs. Stop fighting ourself and instead take care of ourself. Our right to exist in the world completely and utterly as we are.
We shift from information-seeking, to the path of direct experience and practice. We shift our allegiance to ourselves instead wherever it has been - perhaps our boss, our culture, the news stories, so many outside distractions that we choose to pay attention to.
The sharp strong path of Tiger is to radically shift our allegiance to ourselves. We learn that the greatest gift we can give the world is the gift of our own well-being. We put all our focus on being OK, being good, being completely content in our world, at home with ourselves.
Key Transformational Axis:
- From Information-Seeking to Practice. The journey is to shift our allegiance from knowledge and information-seeking to our direct experience and practice. From seeking external input to internal discovery, and to choosing into what we find.
Key Practices:
- All our daily habits - exercise, health, direct communication, etc.
- Self-Trust Cultivation
- Shamatha meditation
- Friendliness
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Tiger: Energy of ContentednessNow feel Tiger in your own body. Touch down into the power, resilience and strength already flowing through you, and find the contentedness that has nothing to hide and nothing to prove.
Fundamental Shamatha PracticeTiger shifts your allegiance back to yourself — away from the boss, the news, every outside voice. Shamatha, calm abiding, is one place to practice that: resting at home in your own direct experience. Come sit.
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