2012.01.31 _ 43

(I don't know if I created a new page correctly, please amend if necessary.)

I was reading about Dogen's teaching 'To study the self is to forget the self.' Hadn't realized it can mean we don't study the self IN ORDER to forget the self. When we study it, as in meditation, the sense of it falls away by itself.

Hi Zen... moved the page, was nearly perfect. :) Yeah, as you write that I consider that when we really look into 'self' perhaps ideas of self fall away and therefore a sort of exposure allows self not to be such a preoccupation anymore...on to other things...
Met someone today in SL whose tragedy in life turned her outward to embrace what she might do in the world... she basically said that her loss contained her whole notion of what life would be about, so that gone, she hopes 'the whole world' can do something with her energies now.
Added later(today's report): downloaded an audio book called Natural Awareness yesterday... quite a few guided meditations/have stopped with it several times, refreshed by the way there is endless new non-material in very basic practices one thinks they know already. #nonmeditation
added again: (((Eden))) Ty... will buy lemons tomorrow... handled today pretty well. :) edited 02:29, 1 Feb 2012

Meditated in the evening. A lot of resistance to starting meditation today, a lot of tension in the body, mind easily distracted.

Yes! Forgetting the self is a great expression: not surpressing, not denying, not transforming, not transcending, not . . . , just forgetting, indeed falling away, no longer distracted by its demands. Like yesterday's Zen's "Wisdom is letting go of something every day".
This morning quiet reflections . . .

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Recipe for Eliza weaning from coffee: hot water, two chunks of fresh ginger, the juice of one lemon and a teaspoon of honey. It worked for me :) #timestamp

Don't forget the lemon peel, the best part (vitamin P :-).

It's easier to find transitions between work chunks than within them. Various practice pieces or ways that are lying around then surface, if only briefly. I am a wanderer in various time and space scales. The tiny and the totality touch, never having been apart.