2012.01.21 _ 33

On Eos' theme of the adjacent possible, this morning I spent quite some time on sitting with the single question of dropping/stopping in order to look around at reality with fresh eyes. Indeed, a lot was there, adjacently, vividly, that is so easily overlooked. How to summarize? I would have to use the same words as I've done so often: no need, enough, no grasping, no trying, no improving. Yet all that made so much more and deeper sense today. Another new beginning. edited 21:57, 21 Jan 2012

A mild sunny day here. Started thinking about happiness. It is our default state really, I think. Starting to notice how much happier I feel when I drop expectations of how others should behave. That's just the way they are. And that's why they are interesting :)

Sitting meditation just before going to bed. Tried to include this depression, this inertia, in the situation to see as is, to even be grateful for.
I remember earlier this year seeing a blossoming branch and noticing that seeing that was not better or worse than a depression. I remember that as true now, but is is harder to actually see it as true at this moment.

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Finished reading Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs. So inspiring! Wouldn't have liked to cross his path (he had pretty harsh manners), but I'm so glad he dedicated his life to create the user friendly devices I use daily. He knew I had no time for all the complicated stuff and all I wanted was beautiful wonderful devices that let me create with all the freedom I need. Feeling so grateful. #timestamp

Lately I'm doing a very concrete questioning of my environment, which feels just strange enough to be great fun, like I am having a secret with myself all the time. It isn't so different, if different at all, from some of the explorations we've done in PaB, but just very concrete, like "I am typing right now" to "I am not typing right now" which are both true in some sense, there being so much space in between strokes on a keypad. So what is the basis? Typing? Not typing? Driving in construction and questioning whether it is 'the same' ... funny how, at least in Miami, roads are being worked on all the time and one drives around without *really* looking. For all one knows the same crane could just be moved back and forth across the street or down the way a little. Really looking at what is going on is in some ways shocking, because one (I) sees how much they (I) don't see.

Pausing in Pema's sitting questing dropping stopping,
Zen's happier dropping expectations,
Wester's seeing a blossoming branch no better worse than a depression,
Eden's wonderful devices that let create,
Eliza's questioning environs questioning Eliza

One moment today was standing a long time in a circle of trees, feeling I am not the only being, subtle shared uplifting.