#adaptive practice

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Meditation as stillness, mindfulness as presence, Qi Gong as embodiment

Meditation in MMQG cannot be understood as a mere technique for relaxation, nor as a consumerist wellness product to make the exhausted worker more compliant in the machine of productivity. It is not a way of emptying the mind so that it can return cleansed and ready to resume the rhythms of capitalist time. Rather, meditation as practised and taught in MMQG is an ontological act of refusal, an…

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MMQG Shared DNA - part 1

When we speak of the shared DNA of Meditation (ध्यान dhyāna), Mindfulness (सति sati), and Qi Gong (氣功 qìgōng), we are not merely cataloguing superficial similarities among three practices that emerged in distinct cultural contexts. Rather, we are probing into the ontological ground that allows such practices to arise at all, and which manifests itself across traditions as a perennial striving for…