2011.11.07 _ 67

Sat down to meditate before work, but opened a browser window instead "just to check". So of course I didn't meditate - yet.

http://www.savagechickens.com/2011/11/live-life.html edited 11:18, 7 Nov 2011

Had to smile at Wols comment above - so recognizable!

Meditated just before my PaB session. Finding you only have 15 minutes left to do a 10-minute meditation is actually quite a good way to quit stalling.

Standing meditation. Back to the basic form again - three prostrations, 10 minutes standing with a light focus on both breath and posture, three more prostrations. It is nice to watch the subtle ways in which the meditation changes over time, and the ways in which it stays the same. It dawned on me that you can start meditation with some kind of idea to motivate you, but the point of meditation is always beyond any idea.

The 9-second gong went off while I was typing this. It felt very disruptive. I am writing about meditation, but still a call to meditate right now feels like interruption. Isn't that strange...

Wester wrote: "but the point of meditation is always beyond any idea."
_/\_

the three thousand worlds
branches hang suspended reach
in a waking fog


and /me giggles at Pema's entry yesterday edited 12:25, 8 Nov 2011

::: Floating through the trees
::: An etheric cross of light
::: Pulsing in the wind

http://yolandevillemaire.com/lets-take-a-walk

I enjoyed reading Eden's haiku line yesterday about breathing in sun rays. Mind and breath/energy, openness and clarity. I'm sitting here in a sunlit room, before starting my day, breathing in sun rays; what more could I wish?

Gate C109
I step from Newark to Halifax
Feeling fresh and new
Who have I left behind?

Tai Chi at the office on a quiet afternoon, unusually peaceful, suspect it will become moreso with time.

Sitting, meditating during Original Face this morning, wrapped cocoon-like in the multiple sensations outside and in...the sounds of rain on tulip tree leaves and workers building, the feel and smell of a cool wet breeze coming through the window and the deep achyness of my body about to get a cold. They all became one as I breathed them in and exhaled them out into the new morning . edited 04:23, 8 Nov 2011

Relating to mind prior to sleep a) seeing the repetitive cycles more for what they are, and b) encountering dullness, laziness and resistance toward being present approaching a certain extreme. Waking, like breathing in, it just happens, until it doesn't any more presumably, but catching the first thought is interesting, as is contemplating what was between waking, and the noticing of the first thought. Today's body connection.. to eat with fingers only, observing how I might do things differently, and also keep present and as clean as possible, and enjoy it.

Like Aph, my meditation (aka 'recliner sit') was during the Original Face session. Focusing on my abdomen, the notion of "absorption" came to mind -- and then mindful porosity -- non-resistance -- and then reciprocal participation of the 10,000 things -- mutual absorption.

Feeling physically better
Very emotional tho, it feels like my being sick/spacey has irritated the world, ha ha.
Hope for a better day today
Off to the po to see if the mail in ballots can be traced since I forgot to put stamps on!!