Rising Up: Standing Meditation From The Inside Out
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Rising Up: Standing Meditation From The Inside Out
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Psssst... This is a rescue mission.
Pinned
it's not easy to be curious,
to explore those things
inside of us
we'd rather push away,
abandon and ignore...
but that's what we've got to do
#meditation #yoga #mindfulness #art #consciousness #booksky #bluesky
Reposted by Rising Up: Standing Meditation From The Inside Out
whose gently awful stirrings seems to speak of some hidden soul beneath
August 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Ghost Hands in Rain
Palms hover—steam rising off stone
Elbows sink as if in a silk stream
"Your force: not in muscle, but in intent—
Condensing where resistance dissolves."
Can you strike with mist?
#meditation #martialarts #booksky #poetry #bluesky
August 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Listening to the Tide’s March
Toes dig in to sandy fault lines
Waves lapping like breath
"Before ‘intent’, the impulse to exist:
‘Wide open let the world flow through it.’"
What weight anchors your flight?
🙆‍♂️🙆‍♀️🙆 #Meditation #poetry #bluesky #booksky #writingcommunity #photography
August 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Silk Reeling the Void
Spine suspended from cloud-thread
Pelvis a mortar grinding star-dust
"The wheel turns itself—
Your tendons: unspooled silk in dark water."
What spins when no hand pulls?
#meditation #martialarts #booksky #bluesky #poetry
August 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Reposted by Rising Up: Standing Meditation From The Inside Out
August 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Unnamed
Not standing.
Not meditating.
A simple suspension between earth and sky.
Palms open like unfurled clouds.
Before contemplation, before meditation—there was this.
The usefulness of uselessness.
Unclassified things erode empires.
🙆🙆‍♀️🙆‍♂️ #meditation #yoga #martialarts #booksky #bluesky #aiart
August 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Roots in Burning Soil
Feet fuse with the scorched earth
Crown rises above smoke-choked skies
Knees become shock absorbers
Grow where ash falls deepest
Fire consumes, and it forges
What unbroken thing rises from your grounding?
🙆🙆‍♀️🙆‍♂️ #meditation #yoga #martialarts #booksky #bluesky
#writingcommunity
August 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Left foot presses down as right hand lifts
Pelvis a balanced fulcrum
The body becomes a lever
Resistance and effort united
Press down to lift up
Push west to move east
Be the calligrapher and the ink
Where is your pivot point?
🙆🙆‍♀️🙆‍♂️ #meditation #martialarts #writingcommunity #poetry #bluesky #booksky
August 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Breath of the Unbound
Ribs expand against imagined restraints
Center of gravity pulses like a star in the void
Ribs contract, restraint dissolves
Expanding through limits
Inhale the world’s breath
Exhale and add your own
Who hears your voice?
#meditation #martialarts #yoga #booksky #bluesky #poetry
August 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
-Lao Tzu
August 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Fingertips brush stillness
Head suspended from above
Knees float above tectonic roots
Digging into the earth
Eyes soft-focused on shifting horizons
Surface tension building beneath palms
In stillness it's easy to detect the silent tremors
#meditation #poetry #writingcommunity #booksky #bluesky
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August 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
River Bones, Mountain Flesh
Skeleton floats upwards as flesh pours down.
Tendons taut, humming like strings.
Weight drops, Earth-energy rises.
Resistance flows where structures yield.
Sinews stretch, structure reinforced.
#meditation #Resistance #booksky #bluesky #yoga #fitness #writingcommunity
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August 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Invisible Burdens
Hands hover, pressing phantom stones into water.
Shoulders carry the invisible weight of years.
What can you do that leaves no shadow?
'Joy lightens the heaviest burden.' Release what wasn’t yours.
🙆‍♀️🙆‍♂️🙆 #meditation #booksky #bluesky #yoga
August 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Storm-Holder's Paradox
Arms as if containing thunder.
Spine floats above grounded legs.
Smile faintly as winds howl.
"Inhale chaos. Exhale coherence.
'Motion in non-motion,' say the masters.
The calm eye sees the hurricane whole."
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#meditation #writingcommunity #photo #booksky #bluesky #yoga
August 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The Uncarved Block
Feet rooted in the earth.
Knees like bent saplings.
Palms cradle empty space rippling with potential.
Before temples, before monuments—there was structure.
'Seek spirit, not form.'
What structures will you unbuild today?
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#meditation #yoga #writingcommunity #martialarts
August 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Gratitude
You gotta have some gratitude
When you say please and thank you to me
You got some gratitude

Inside your human chest
There’s probably a heart
Don’t try to shut it out
Just open up the door

Gratitude
It's what you got
Oh baby gratitude
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August 4, 2025 at 4:38 AM
“Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.”
― Zhuangzi
#meditation #yoga #booksky #bluesky #poetry #philosophy #photography #art #writingcommunity #wellness
August 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Seeds in the Ground
Stand until the earth cracks
Center of gravity glowing ember-red
Roots drink deep from hidden aquifers
Inhale: Reinforce your stability
Exhale: Vivify what lies fallow
What rises after dormancy shakes the earth
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#meditation #resist #martialarts #Yoga #photography #poetry
August 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Silent Strings And Echoes
Elbows tug knees. Shoulders drop, hips rise.
Puppet and puppet master using its own tendons.
Inhale: Untangle the threads.
Exhale: Tug one thread, everything moves.
Coordination precedes victory.
#Meditation #martialarts #poetry #photography #yoga #kungfu
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July 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The Weightless Stone
Arms cradle emptiness.
Spine bears imagined loads.
Vaulting up through the pelvis.
Inhale: Feel the burden.
Exhale: Make it buoyant.
The burdens we carry together becomes lighter.
#meditation #martialarts #Community #bluesky #booksky #architecture #fitness
July 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Skeleton floats. Ribs expand
Fascia a woven net beneath the skin
Stretch in all directions
Expand outward
Integrate the opposites
Inhale: Let gravity test your structure
Exhale: Hum with potential energy
What’s built on truth won’t collapse when shaken
#meditation #yoga #bluesky #booksky #poetry
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July 29, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The Breath That Moves Mountains
Lungs swell. Feet anchor. Feel it boil in your core.
Inhale: Pull the horizon closer.
Exhale: Push foundations into the sea.
Breathe whispers in meditation before it echoes in the streets.
#Breathwork #meditation #booksky #Meditation #bluesky #photography🧍‍♂️🧍🧍‍♀️🫁🔊
July 28, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Hovering Palms, Iron Roots
Fingertips brush stillness. Feet pierce into the bedrock.
Shoulders forget they carry weight.
Inhale: Let energy rise like the tide.
Exhale: Channel it through the hands.
Even light touch cracks stone when roots run deep.
#Meditation #martialarts #booksky #bluesky
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July 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Six Directions, One Mind
Project energy: forward and back against the future and the past, up and down, left and right here and now
Inhale: Build under pressure
Exhale: Hold the sphere intact
Presence in all directions is true stability
#meditation #martialarts #booksky #bluesky #QiGong #yoga
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July 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In ancient times great masters stood upon the earth supporting heaven, controlling yin and yang, breathing in the essence, standing alone, guarding spirit, with body singularly whole and complete.
-Lao Tzu
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July 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM