Books
Nowflow Breath, Movement & Mind:
A Living Practice of 3 Nowflow Qualities from 3 Physics Flow Natures
Nowflow Breath, Movement & Mind is a guide to our own inner nature retreat.
It’s a simple way to find a source of solace and strength. The key is to be able to see what we may usually overlook, even though it’s ever-present in our experience. The 3 nowflow qualities (finely free, mutual ease, and whole togetherness) are always the way that nature flows, as we can know from physics. By learning how to appreciate and feel these 3 nowflow qualities in our own mind-body, we can discover our own inner nature retreat. It’s always with us.
There are simple ways of understanding this and simple practices that help us to feel it, even in the midst of daily life. A living practice of the 3 nowflow qualities with breath, movement, and mind allows us to feel in the flow of our living.
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Way of Now: Nowflow for Meditation, Peak Performance, and Daily Life
In this book, Way of Now, Tai Chi master and physicist Dr. Wonchull Park lays out a rational foundation that connects the “here and now” of meditation to the “flow state” of peak performance — and everything in between. This also explains how Tai Chi can encompass meditation and the martial arts, as well as stress reduction and performance more generally.
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Essential Reality & Time: Physics and Living of Nowflow
This book is about reality but is simple and definite because it is based on initial conditions of physics. We take initial conditions set at the present as essential reality, while all others (like past, future, acceleration) as non-essential which does not have any additional effect according to physics models. (Deterministic models are used first for clarity, then the applicability is generalized to include indeterministic cases.)
This gives two options: by taking both essential and non-essential as reality, we have the usual view of 4D spacetime, which is the eternalism view in metaphysics. If only the essential reality is considered as reality, we get a view similar to presentism but without incompatibilities with physics, such as relativity. Once essential reality (initial conditions) is given no more effects can be added, so both options are equivalent for the whole effect.
The minimal (necessary and sufficient) set as reality, i.e., presentism-like essential reality, needs to contain time in the present moment, and shown so by starting with comparative changing as velocity instead of the usual time derivative. A quote from the book: “For presentism-like essential reality, comparatively changing things in space at the present is all of reality. A standard changing thing as a clock gives the standard change information as time to compare other changes.”
The book also includes application to daily living, which one may find useful. Though written without formulas for a general audience, this book is at the core a physics book where all physics is intended to be rigorous.
Available as a free PDF.