Readers Respond (October 2003)

The latest issue of The Vital Force just arrived and two things noticed all too quickly are still penetrating. I always read the poem on the back first. I was swimming along in the joy of it…and then the fourth to the last word struck a chord and I am still not sure if it was meant to be a “k” or an “f”. Either way works. Spell check does not help here.

Then delved randomly in and found the statement in which Ed Altman quotes Justin Stone saying at Folsom prison, “From the Eastern point of view we are all living the same life”.

These will take time to percolate.

– Leslie Keith
St. Paul, AB, CANADA

(So now I shall be here pondering awhile and waiting for another reading time. Except that I had understood the planned Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (the letters spell out as a tank chews) session was to be a Seijaku experience for those new to that discipline and can find no others on the list. When will there be a Seijaku opportunity?)

CLARIFICATION

Hi Noel.

Thanks for fitting in my article on seeking peace in this month’s Vital Force. That was nice to see. I’m actually writing to you in response to the article written by Debbie Cole in which she mentions a yinning/yanging technique/idea that I use. Although it’s a wonderful tool that I use to help students FEEL what it is like “flowing from the center”, I cannot take credit for it as being my idea. I actually heard someone talk about this at last year’s conference in San Antonio. I don’t remember who the person was but I’d like to properly give credit where it’s due. So if the person who uses this approach is reading this, I thank you for an excellent idea. I simply passed it on at the Philadelphia TCC weekend in Jan. 2003.

Thanks, Noel.

Peace,

– April Leffler
Prospect Park, PA