Morning. I sat this morning for 20 minutes. I'm glad. However, yesterday went downhill all the way from my energetic morning start - not just every day is a new day but every minute is a new minute. Not to make these closed-off assumptions ('today I am virtuous, today is a good day' or 'today I didn't sit, today is a lazy day') is always a challenge.
Dale, good news that your big project is completed. Hope there are no last minute hitches. But even if there are, sounds like the end is in sight. Your simultaneous devaluing of your job and exhaustion/frustration by this big project rings horribly familiar to me and is not a combination conducive to a spacious mind, I think?
Today's the first day of face-to-face classes, so I got up at 5, did 27 bows, sat for 15 antsy minutes, then surrendered myself to the usual first day jitters. :-)
Jean, I hear you on the "every minute is a new minute." Years ago I realized that the point of meditation isn't to "carry" the calmness of meditation into your workaday world...it's to be *present* for every moment, whether on or off the mat. So trying to make work "like meditation" is as futile as trying to make meditation "like work."
If it's true that each moment is complete, then there's a certain perfection to being swept up in the current of life, being cranky, etc. We might not *like* those things...but fighting them certainly doesn't make them go away!
And yes, Dale, I hope life lightens now that you're coming to the end of this recent project. It's one thing to be "swept up in the current of life," and it's another to feel like you're drowning!
just had an emergency sit - car broke down and it's gonna cost €2000 to repair which is a bummer and the birthday weekend is b....d etc etc, so i sat and managed to find some sense of it all being part of the tide of life and the money no being mine to begin with, and good to remind myself again just now as dealing with it all has made me swing down again.
today, as you say, is just another day. not good not bad. thanks for the reminder jean.
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Morning. I sat this morning for 20 minutes. I'm glad. However, yesterday went downhill all the way from my energetic morning start - not just every day is a new day but every minute is a new minute. Not to make these closed-off assumptions ('today I am virtuous, today is a good day' or 'today I didn't sit, today is a lazy day') is always a challenge.
Dale, good news that your big project is completed. Hope there are no last minute hitches. But even if there are, sounds like the end is in sight. Your simultaneous devaluing of your job and exhaustion/frustration by this big project rings horribly familiar to me and is not a combination conducive to a spacious mind, I think?
Hello, everyone!
Today's the first day of face-to-face classes, so I got up at 5, did 27 bows, sat for 15 antsy minutes, then surrendered myself to the usual first day jitters. :-)
Jean, I hear you on the "every minute is a new minute." Years ago I realized that the point of meditation isn't to "carry" the calmness of meditation into your workaday world...it's to be *present* for every moment, whether on or off the mat. So trying to make work "like meditation" is as futile as trying to make meditation "like work."
If it's true that each moment is complete, then there's a certain perfection to being swept up in the current of life, being cranky, etc. We might not *like* those things...but fighting them certainly doesn't make them go away!
And yes, Dale, I hope life lightens now that you're coming to the end of this recent project. It's one thing to be "swept up in the current of life," and it's another to feel like you're drowning!
Janice, I'm wondering what you have in your password-protected 100 Days photo album :-)
just had an emergency sit - car broke down and it's gonna cost €2000 to repair which is a bummer and the birthday weekend is b....d etc etc, so i sat and managed to find some sense of it all being part of the tide of life and the money no being mine to begin with, and good to remind myself again just now as dealing with it all has made me swing down again.
today, as you say, is just another day. not good not bad. thanks for the reminder jean.
Sat 10 minutes last night, 20 this morning.
Dale, glad for you that the end is in sight (hopefully).
Oh Ruth, so sorry! What a pain! Hang in there.
Jean, I appreciated the non-judgement reminder too.
Dale, congrats on the project finish - may it NOT come back and truly be done!
Lorianne - good luck with your new beginning of classes. I'd be nervous too...but you will do wonderfully.
And a happy day to everyone.
I've missed a few days, just plain laziness I'm afraid. But I shall pick myself up and start again. Tonight. In fact, right now.
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