2011.09.20 _ 19

T'ai Chi lessons started again today (and those would count as mediation as well) - but I did a meditation session in the morning anyway. I have had a terribly bad mood for the past few days, I think I shouldn't skimp on the meditation. The meditation makes me more aware of my mood (and therefore possibly makes me more careful around other people), and it makes me relax a bit in spite of the mood, but it doesn't make it less.

Sitting before bed: check. :) Easier to fall into meditation in the morning too... flowing of the day like water curling around settled boulders in a river. edited 19:18, 20 Sep 2011

What a lovely image, Eliza.

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Reading yesterday's haiku by Eden, I got a very vivid memory from my student days, sitting near a canal in Utrecht, Holland, where I attended college, and seeing the sun reflecting off the waves onto the underside of an ancient stone bridge. Seeing the ever changing play of light on the dark stones underneath the bridge somehow made me feel part of a universal web of space and time. Thank you for reviving that timeless moment, Eden!

Hmmm, missed my first day of meditation yesterday, I decided to indulge myself in meditations today, meditation after breakfast, Meditation before lunch, Tai Chi class before dinner, Not sure how food and meditations align, but I'm liking the connection, Now I can't wait till I miss another day and have to do more
make-up meditations :)

::: Young gothic couple
::: Blinking under the bright sun
::: Frail bats out of cave

[ :-) Pema]

From this recliner I look upon the room filled with objects, and I realize that what I CANNOT see makes each thing what it is. Each visible thing insinuates an invisible history; each history suggests a mythic framework: a way of knowing the room's ineffable gestalt, perhaps. I feel surrounded and contained by an inscrutable and invisible "background." What, then, am I looking at, and what is the appropriate vehicle for "seeing" - matter, myth, or Mind?

Thinking of a sense of "silent day" to be carried on throughout the ordinary day tomorrow, Sept 21st, a silent day at SL sessions. Silenting and listening; letting go and being heard.

peace
please
and patience edited 05:26, 21 Sep 2011

Needing some of Aphrodite's patience - with myself - after missing another day.