Can't Quiet Your Mind? Jeff Patterson on Meditation and Yielding

Meditation does not require a quiet mind. Jeff Patterson, founder of The Yielding Warrior and Portland Tai Chi Academy, breaks down the five regulations of the meditative arts, the three pillars of yielding, and why getting distracted fifty times in twenty minutes is fifty repetitions of finding your way back to center.

Jeff has spent 37 years in the meditative and martial arts, 32 of them teaching. He tells the story of the two monks and the mud puddle, which is really about what we keep carrying, and he lands on the practice underneath it all: catching the first sign of imbalance before it gains momentum.

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EPISODE CHAPTERS

00:00 "You're still carrying her" — the two monks

00:54 What if the strongest thing you could do is stop pushing

02:48 Chopping wood, the first school, and the Marine Corps

03:40 The boxing coach who changed everything

05:10 "Isn't that for old people in the park?"

07:42 The five regulations of the meditative arts

08:12 Regulating the body, and what your posture is telling you