Oh, how wonderful. I've meditated pretty consistently since 1984, and became a certified kundalini yoga teacher in 1985, and taught lots of classes, and had a group of women over to my house once a week for the 2.5 hour one, we did that for about 5 years, and it was an amazing experience of inner growth... now I meditate alone, it's part of my life, the way I stay balanced... and it is most wonderful and I am so happy to join this group of beautiful women and in such a unique way! ~over the NET. Buddhism by thought waves... very beautiful. Thank you. I'll drop by later in the day, after I've taken my moment of silences... *hugs xo
Dale: RER is one of the rail systems in France. Forget what it stands for.
Sat 10 minutes. Definite squirrel brain going on. 8 degreesF this morning, brr.
Brenda, welcome! This group is a wonderful place to be - women and men both, following all kinds of paths, united by a common interest in pursuing meditation. Dale (mole/koshtra) runs the blog.
So I had a word verification yesterday that was an actual word; anybody else ever had that happen?
And men! Ooops... sorry. I'm sure many of you have been meditating much longer than I have too. Re: word verification- I've had some strange and uncannily close to real words, but not an actual word. Perhaps one is awaiting me in my future? :) xo
Brenda, wow, it sounds as though you have a lot to share. This group has indeed been wonderful.
Sat this morning for 15 minutes while Emma the cat wailed and nudged me in the back, undecided whether to get up and see what she wanted or try to psych her into quietude. I didn't get up and she didn't shut up. Sigh. Not a spiritual experience. I'm sure it wasn't for her either. (still don't know what got into her - shadows on the ceiling or something...) Had a nice yoga class at lunchtime, though, and I will try to sit again this evening.
Hi Brenda! Welcome! It's great to see you here, and I'm sure you will have lots to share from your experience. Yes, we are women and men, but the women lately have been doing most of the talking - funny thing, that?? And while we have a Buddhist slant, maybe, some are coming from other traditions, or non-traditions. Did you go back and read that we are all planning to sit at the same time on December 16, to mark Day 100? That would be 8:30 pm in France, 2:30 pm EST, and so forth...hope you can be part of that.
Well, I don't know about John and John (and did I scare off Howard by knowing him in real life?) but I've never identified all that strongly with my nominal gender. Belonging to a group of beautiful women doesn't distress me at all, at all :-)
Moose -- I'm quite sure that the verification thing isn't supposed to use real words -- all password systems avoid them -- but the dictionaries it uses may not be very good. What was the word?
Sat this morning 10-15 minutes. The time is building up again which I am pleased about. Still somewhat agitated mentally, but about 5 minutes in I took a involuntary deep breath and was able to relax into the session a little more.
Jean: Oh those cats ... I sympathise.
My best word verification ever has been 'dukjuky', which Dale provided a definition for. Something about duck meat in New Jersey????
great to have you with us brenda, and did you check out the new banner? (day something or other but here's the link if not http://ikatbanner.blogspot.com/)
WHERE HAVE ALL THE blokes gone??? despite your brave face, Dale, I feel for you.
by the way, 20.30 is when the concert actually begins so i'd better be there. I could do 19.00 or 20.00 if former is better for lorraine.?
sat today in hotel whilst they were bashing down a wall. I meditated on the sound of the bashing, trying not to take it as a personal threat. sounds silly but is real! just what i needed!
concert wonderful - and i can probably say this here and nowhere else, the BIG STAR sung with her ego. She is supposed to be a chorale - the spirit, or the heavens or the empty mind - above a very human and active and emotional (and exquisitely executed)cello continuo line and she just sang it like an opera diva...anyway, other moments were sublime.
(this is why i have taken off the link from my blog!)
so M and J shall I see you at the artists bit down the stairs to the left of the bar in the interval????
Hi Ruth, yes we will see you there (the Barbican) at the interval, on Saturday. As you suggest, at "the artists bit down the stairs to the left of the bar". Looking forward to it v much but nervous too. As Jean said in an email to me, it's like an internet date!!
I have to admit over the years as my meditating has morphed along with me that I, um, do certain things now. If I can, I meditate when I'm feeling sleepy, ready for a nap. It's so much easier to focus then. I use a mantra, well I've been doing the same meditation for 11 years now, it's probably Sikh, or maybe Sandscrit, all of my notes are in storage. This meditation and I just resonate. Anyway, the minimum time for it is 15 min, but I will up that to 22 minutes I think. So I do it daily, through anything and everything, drilling, construction, kids tv, grief, sorrow, frustration, whatever. And then, at the end of the time, I lie down, my mind cleared and let everything be. Whatever happens I'm not sure, but I have yet to emerge perhaps half an hour later as anything but blissful. The meditation and the nap, and rising back up to consciousness feeling such bliss... I can't live without it. I've even done it on subways hiding under a hat... :)
(And my verification word is rantchy! is that ranchy or rant-chi? :)
Shall we try for 7 pm in France on 16 Dec, then? Who would that suit? No problem for me - 6 pm here.
The cat was quiet this morning (Friday) and so was my mind. Yes, Moose, I am a big hypocrite who can no more control my cat than you can control that soppy, snuffly dog of yours.
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Oh, how wonderful. I've meditated pretty consistently since 1984, and became a certified kundalini yoga teacher in 1985, and taught lots of classes, and had a group of women over to my house once a week for the 2.5 hour one, we did that for about 5 years, and it was an amazing experience of inner growth... now I meditate alone, it's part of my life, the way I stay balanced... and it is most wonderful and I am so happy to join this group of beautiful women and in such a unique way! ~over the NET. Buddhism by thought waves... very beautiful. Thank you. I'll drop by later in the day, after I've taken my moment of silences... *hugs xo
Dale: RER is one of the rail systems in France. Forget what it stands for.
Sat 10 minutes. Definite squirrel brain going on. 8 degreesF this morning, brr.
Brenda, welcome! This group is a wonderful place to be - women and men both, following all kinds of paths, united by a common interest in pursuing meditation. Dale (mole/koshtra) runs the blog.
So I had a word verification yesterday that was an actual word; anybody else ever had that happen?
And men! Ooops... sorry. I'm sure many of you have been meditating much longer than I have too. Re: word verification- I've had some strange and uncannily close to real words, but not an actual word. Perhaps one is awaiting me in my future? :) xo
Brenda, wow, it sounds as though you have a lot to share. This group has indeed been wonderful.
Sat this morning for 15 minutes while Emma the cat wailed and nudged me in the back, undecided whether to get up and see what she wanted or try to psych her into quietude. I didn't get up and she didn't shut up. Sigh. Not a spiritual experience. I'm sure it wasn't for her either. (still don't know what got into her - shadows on the ceiling or something...) Had a nice yoga class at lunchtime, though, and I will try to sit again this evening.
Jean, you gotta train that cat!
(Kidding, just kidding.)
xo
I thought I had - I guess you don't train cats :-)
Hi Brenda! Welcome! It's great to see you here, and I'm sure you will have lots to share from your experience. Yes, we are women and men, but the women lately have been doing most of the talking - funny thing, that?? And while we have a Buddhist slant, maybe, some are coming from other traditions, or non-traditions. Did you go back and read that we are all planning to sit at the same time on December 16, to mark Day 100? That would be 8:30 pm in France, 2:30 pm EST, and so forth...hope you can be part of that.
Well, I don't know about John and John (and did I scare off Howard by knowing him in real life?) but I've never identified all that strongly with my nominal gender. Belonging to a group of beautiful women doesn't distress me at all, at all :-)
Moose -- I'm quite sure that the verification thing isn't supposed to use real words -- all password systems avoid them -- but the dictionaries it uses may not be very good. What was the word?
"hears"
An everyday verb ... which launched me into paranoid fantasies about security systems involving word verifications...
No, actually, it made me laugh.
And wonder.
Oh, and see now, I am starting to panic: this one says "cpannx" —
Welcome Brenda.
Sat this morning 10-15 minutes. The time is building up again which I am pleased about. Still somewhat agitated mentally, but about 5 minutes in I took a involuntary deep breath and was able to relax into the session a little more.
Jean: Oh those cats ... I sympathise.
My best word verification ever has been 'dukjuky', which Dale provided a definition for. Something about duck meat in New Jersey????
great to have you with us brenda, and did you check out the new banner? (day something or other but here's the link if not
http://ikatbanner.blogspot.com/)
WHERE HAVE ALL THE blokes gone??? despite your brave face, Dale, I feel for you.
by the way, 20.30 is when the concert actually begins so i'd better be there. I could do 19.00 or 20.00 if former is better for lorraine.?
sat today in hotel whilst they were bashing down a wall. I meditated on the sound of the bashing, trying not to take it as a personal threat. sounds silly but is real! just what i needed!
concert wonderful - and i can probably say this here and nowhere else, the BIG STAR sung with her ego. She is supposed to be a chorale - the spirit, or the heavens or the empty mind - above a very human and active and emotional (and exquisitely executed)cello continuo line and she just sang it like an opera diva...anyway, other moments were sublime.
(this is why i have taken off the link from my blog!)
so M and J shall I see you at the artists bit down the stairs to the left of the bar in the interval????
Hi Ruth, yes we will see you there (the Barbican) at the interval, on Saturday. As you suggest, at "the artists bit down the stairs to the left of the bar". Looking forward to it v much but nervous too. As Jean said in an email to me, it's like an internet date!!
Thank you, but seriously misplaced sympathy, Ruth :-)
I have to admit over the years as my meditating has morphed along with me that I, um, do certain things now. If I can, I meditate when I'm feeling sleepy, ready for a nap. It's so much easier to focus then. I use a mantra, well I've been doing the same meditation for 11 years now, it's probably Sikh, or maybe Sandscrit, all of my notes are in storage. This meditation and I just resonate. Anyway, the minimum time for it is 15 min, but I will up that to 22 minutes I think. So I do it daily, through anything and everything, drilling, construction, kids tv, grief, sorrow, frustration, whatever. And then, at the end of the time, I lie down, my mind cleared and let everything be. Whatever happens I'm not sure, but I have yet to emerge perhaps half an hour later as anything but blissful. The meditation and the nap, and rising back up to consciousness feeling such bliss... I can't live without it. I've even done it on subways hiding under a hat... :)
(And my verification word is rantchy! is that ranchy or rant-chi? :)
Yes, Ruth we'll see you... ooh
Shall we try for 7 pm in France on 16 Dec, then? Who would that suit? No problem for me - 6 pm here.
The cat was quiet this morning (Friday) and so was my mind. Yes, Moose, I am a big hypocrite who can no more control my cat than you can control that soppy, snuffly dog of yours.
That would be 1pm here (EST), which is fine if I'm not working- or, if I am, could take lunch & try to find a quiet corner...
Thanks for your the welcome, too. xo
Thanks for the welcome!
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