2012.01.13 _ 25

Very busy day, but many opportunities at appreciation and wonderment, to echo Eliza. Sometimes time pressure seems to help to find those hidden resources, when you can't quite rely on the usual ways of coping with being busy.
So nice to hear about Mel Weitzman, Zen! I, too, was one of the people showing up at 5 am on a daily basis, one summer that I was visiting Berkeley, almost thirty years ago, and yes, I vividly remember his quiet presence every morning, gentle and deep.

Almost forgot to meditate. Standing meditation in the evening, just before going to bed.

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Ah Zen, thank you for bringing this umbrella man among us. Nice feeling being shielded from the storms of life by his quiet presence:) #timestamp

Radical nondualists think meditation is detrimental as it makes you think you are practicing to get somewhere. But, oh..the feeling, the sense of peace in a zendo when a lot of people quietly meditate. I find something inexpressible and deep in meditation.

Checking in at the end of a full day, continuing to pay attention to Rest, to giving myself permission to do so... today drawn to thinking about the rest inherent when I've followed my heart through on something without fixed expectations. Sometimes we talk in terms of no hope of results, but today i'm thinking that not fixing down on particular results is enough.

Another timed half-hour, this time sitting on cushion in fully formal fashion. "Empty formality" helps :-) Meanwhile play of wrapped up in being, wrapped by being, and playing as being continues. Ultimate non-accomplishment of accomplishment helps in doing/resting.