Intro

So this is the first entry of a long journey back to silence. I have studied qi gong and Buddhism for over twenty years, although in the past few years, well maybe more than a few, I have found myself drifting farther and farther away from where I thought I was going. This blog is an attempt to chronicle and open up for discussion my journey back into an active practice of qi gong and Buddhism. 

I got the blog title from a quote by Katagiri Roshi that is also a title of his book. Here is the quote

                                                                     

Returning to Silence

When you really want to know who you are or what the real significance of human life, human suffering is, very naturally you come back to silence, even though you don't want to, you return to an area of no-sound. It cannot be explained, but in this silence you can realize, even if only dimly, what the real point is that you want to know. Whatever kind of question you ask or whatever you think, finally you have to return to silence. This silence is vast; you don't know what it is.

http://www.bamboointhewind.org/lineage_katagiri.html

My first focus is to build a qi gong practice by doing some everyday for at least 100 days so I can build my body and qi. I always liked the saying "miss one day, lose three."