2012.02.16 _ 59

Standing meditation in the morning. I still sometimes start meditation later in the day than necessary.

Breathe. The body breathes all by itself, and no other action is necessary.

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Is time really accelarating? It certainly feels like it and my nervous system is surrendering to the flow, there is no point resisting it. In one day, I bought our tickets for Cuba( two weeks in April on a turquoise stranded beach of Cayo Largo), rehearsed, videotaped and revised my "TOTEMPOÉSIE" for the poetry reading tonight, agreed to have my pictures of the village where I spend the summer up in the hills used in a video for the village Art Gallery where I'm reading at the end of March. My last "raw foods" class is at 18h30 and I will have about 15 minutes to walk down a few blocks to the bar where the poetry reading is taking place. I meditated about 10 minutes this morning, then the phone rang. Guess I will have to meditate in the subway in order to quiet down :). #timestamp

Thank you, Wester, for your continued detailed description of your explorations, tinkering with various degrees of freedom in how to approach and do your standing practice. At some point you might gather all this material and write a little manual about it, as a way to stimulate others to go on similar explorations, using your approach as an example!
This morning, still with "zero practice" I realized how dropping any particular form of practice for me exposes the fact that we continuously practice living from a small mind attitude. Noticing that, I'm trying to drop even that kind of practice.

Working with idea that my body is an indivisible part of everything else. I only THINK my skin is a boundary. If I close my eyes I can't detect it.

Letting the body be a container, a gesture, a symbol. Being in it being still, being in it moving, being expressing and expressed.

"The body breathes all by itself, and no other action is necessary."

Paying attention to my body in circulation in the world. Letting circumstance be a container, a gesture, a symbol. No escape is being all there, all spoken for, 100% synecdoche.

This 99 days round has been so interesting, weaving in small shifts... night walks, loss of morning coffee... calming breaths practice. It doesn't seem that these things are 'helping me to rest' exactly... more there are some ruts falling away on their own.