2012.01.30 _ 42

No static world, with Zen; ever changing sunlight, with Eos; Wester changing poses; Eliza changing rest to not even that; Eden's heart rekindling; all in flux, and so it felt for me too, this morning, leaving Manhattan for Princeton, as in going from one realm to another.

"Knowledge is learning something every day, Wisdom is letting go of something every day." Zen Proverb.

I am noticing lately how much people, and myself, keep wanting to add strategies and techniques, magical and mysterious ideas, to meditation, for instance. "Mr Taylor, why you complicate your life?" My Spanish classical guitar teacher used to ask me many years ago. I'm still doing it :-)

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Running...Will be back too late to post here. Waving hellos! #timestamps

Someone says "Hey!" and you don't know who or what it is, you look and be all around attention-fully-open. You're still not doing anything. Even suddenly doing you're still not doing anything. That's the way. Every time you miss this on the other end is another "Hey!" Even you're not there then.
Trembling is.
:-)
Relax.

Weaning from coffee and startled by what addiction feels like, how much I depend on it without realizing... quite a prop to "keep going." Am overly emotional and finding it hard not to just replace one thing with another. Perhaps it is good, while I am here, to remind myself of why I felt this necessary right now... which is simply quality of attention, capacity for rest... capacity for attention, quality of rest.