HeyJaredNotes on Practise — with Shkar Sharif
Notes on Practise is about the long road of training, cultivation, and trying to become someone worth being.Some episodes explore movement, power, and the disciplined training of the body. Others turn inward — towards attention, effort, surrender, and meaning.
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#11 - When the Ego Discovers Spirituality (opens the original)
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In this episode, I explore what we actually mean by spirituality — and how easily spiritual practice can become another project of the ego. From manifestation and the law of attraction to altered states, spiritual experiences and the pursuit of attainment, much of what we call spirituality can still revolve around the same basic impulse: I want something, and I want spirituality to give it to me. Drawing on Buddhism, Sufism and my own experience of cultivation, I look at spirituality as somethin
#10 - Taizuquan: The Hidden Foundation of Southern Shaolin (opens the original)
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In this episode of Notes on Practise , I take a deep dive into Taizuquan. I explore Taizuquan as one of the foundational arts of the Southern Shaolin tradition, looking at how its San Zhan methods embody principles associated with the Yi Jin Jing, how it develops and organises the waist and spine for power transmission, and why true whole-body movement involves far more than simply moving the physical body as one unit. We also look at the internal and external harmonies, the role of Yi and the h
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