Good morning. Woke early (for me) and sat for an hour this morning. Perhaps that's why I'm feeling a bit emotionally naked. What a great discussion yesterday about anger. I'm thinking how much I value knowing you people and trying not to cry, since I'm at work. And I don't cry much - sometimes I haven't for years at a time.
Good morning, Jean! I, on the other hand, am up late :-)
Yeah. A precious thing.
Some shamatha & 21 accumulations. I was lying in bed at 11:30, wondering if I was going to be able to sleep tonight. I had been going to skip meditation. I found myself thinking, "well, it's too late now," and an unaccustomed voice in head answered, "why is that?"
I couldn't really think of any reason why, so I got back up & did my practice.
And now I'm finally sleepy again, so I think, having said my good mornings, I'll go to bed :-)
Sat this morning 10-15 mins - a lot of practising involved, ie watching the mind run off and patiently (more or less) bringing it back. Jean, 1 hour is something I have yet to accomplish, but wow!
I need to go back and re-read the anger discussion.
Just to add: Not working this week and at home so this afternoon I did what I said I would yesterday - put a CD on and have just finished dancing around the room to Closer to Fine (Indigo Girls), volume loud. Highly recommended. Now, suitably energised, I need to do some housework ... glad you are all here.
Speaking of sitting together, all of us, we've blown our "last Friday", haven't we. It's already here. Shall we do first Fridays instead, and do it next Friday at 4:00 gmt?
sitting together would be so good, but I need help with time zone conversion ... I can't even figure out what "spring forward, fall back" means ... crossing the date line is waaay beyond me
Friday, February 3 @ 04:00 GMT
is that Thursday, Feb.2 @ 08:00 PST ??
Dale, I think you and I are the only ones in this time zone
hey Udge, come in Udge ... where are you when we need you?
As I said a couple of weeks ago it is going to be almost impossible with more of us spread over 2 hemispheres to fix a time that suits everyone perfectly. I guess Jean and I (and possibly Udge/Ruth on CET) will still be at work, but as I recall Brenda did really well last time in a work situation. Lock the door, find an empty meeting room etc etc.
Dale, wasn't your idea to shift forward each month by 3 or 4 hours? ... I think that would be a good idea - gives everybody a chance at some point to get a time that more or less suits them.
11:00 AM, Feb 3rd, US Eastern time, 1:00 AM Saturday, Feb 4th, in Tokyo and Seoul. Jude loses out, this time (unless she's a real night owl) -- 2:00 am Saturday morning in Queensland.
I'm thinking now about moving forward 7 hours each time, which is odd enough to crawl us around the 24 in an equal-opportunity sort of way... I'm fond of the number 7 and how it interacts with Babylonian twelves, but I am, I realize, a dyed in the wool geek :-) So that would put the next sit, in March at 11:00 pm gmt (8:00 am saturday in Tokyo, 3:00 pm Vancouver)
thanks for link to time zone converter - it gives me same thing though: 8 pm Feb.2
Time is such a strange and artifical construct ... how much would be the difference if we all sat at different times, but THOUGHT we were sitting together?
I don't think it would make any difference during the sit at all. If mind is, as they assure us, luminous, empty, and unimpeded, I don't see why twelve hours would rattle it any more than ten thousand miles would :-)
But it is fun to all check in afterwards at around the same time.
Ah, we did forget, didn't we. And I had been looking forward to it.
First Friday sounds fine and may be easier to remember. 4 pm GMT is 9am MST and 8am PST. Works for me. I could do with a reminder beforehand, of course.
Hello Janice, sorry to have been otherwise detained in your hour of need :-) but it seems to be worked out just fine. 4pm GMT on 2. Feb it is!
I would indeed normally be at work then, in a one-room office where it would be impossible to avoid rude remarks and withering glances, but I fear that I shall be sick on that afternoon (cough, cough).
Thi really is a wonderful group, I'm so glad that Zhoen pointed me in your direction.
My verification word is "ijsoalt": call me Tristan.
Hi all. I finally sat this afternoon, after doing some yoga. I didn't sit at all yesterday. I've not been sleeping well and it's hard to concentrate. But did spend 15 minutes today, and reasonably focused.
4pm doesn't work for me but go ahead as I can sit at 5 GMT on our break. Crazy actors' schedule continues.
I have sat the last couple of days, and even ran in the snow! I need it with this very very negative energy beside me 9 hours a day. My colleague was almost told to go home but in the end no-one had the courage to speak in any position of power. I swing between boiling over with rage at how much she is destroying the music and feeling quite peaceful in my 'buddha bubble' and with my other colleagues. Loving kindness is on hold for the moment whilst I simply try and get through each day. Not sure if I'm going to explode and if so what language will come out. I think the sitting is helping me though, at least to consider what I'm feeling before I react.
Hang in there Ruth. I can't even imagine trying to do creative work under those circumstances! I think you're doing a wonderful job to be able to achieve any mindfulness at all.
Ruth, much support to you, we all affect each other so much that someone who expresses nothing but negativity can be very hard! Glad the meditation is helping you to cope...
And, everyone, I absolutely LOVE reading the back-and-forth on time zones! Never mind Godot, just read 100 Days!
Someone will have to tell me, however, when for EST and what day in particular, because I'm a numbskull with such things!
Oh, I did a meditation that I love today... one breath a minute, for a total of 30 breaths for half an hour. It does something to the brain chemistry- to go from the normal 15-18 breaths per minute to one. The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide shifts. Whatever it does, it's nice. Slow and definitely not easy, not at first, all that discipline, that slow, slow input and output, but nice.
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Good morning. Woke early (for me) and sat for an hour this morning. Perhaps that's why I'm feeling a bit emotionally naked. What a great discussion yesterday about anger. I'm thinking how much I value knowing you people and trying not to cry, since I'm at work. And I don't cry much - sometimes I haven't for years at a time.
Good morning, Jean! I, on the other hand, am up late :-)
Yeah. A precious thing.
Some shamatha & 21 accumulations. I was lying in bed at 11:30, wondering if I was going to be able to sleep tonight. I had been going to skip meditation. I found myself thinking, "well, it's too late now," and an unaccustomed voice in head answered, "why is that?"
I couldn't really think of any reason why, so I got back up & did my practice.
And now I'm finally sleepy again, so I think, having said my good mornings, I'll go to bed :-)
... & good morning, Mary!
Hi all
Welcome again Devon.
Sat this morning 10-15 mins - a lot of practising involved, ie watching the mind run off and patiently (more or less) bringing it back. Jean, 1 hour is something I have yet to accomplish, but wow!
I need to go back and re-read the anger discussion.
Just to add: Not working this week and at home so this afternoon I did what I said I would yesterday - put a CD on and have just finished dancing around the room to Closer to Fine (Indigo Girls), volume loud. Highly recommended. Now, suitably energised, I need to do some housework ... glad you are all here.
:-) that sounds wonderful, Mary.
Brava, Devon!
Speaking of sitting together, all of us, we've blown our "last Friday", haven't we. It's already here. Shall we do first Fridays instead, and do it next Friday at 4:00 gmt?
sitting together would be so good, but I need help with time zone conversion ... I can't even figure out what "spring forward, fall back" means ... crossing the date line is waaay beyond me
Friday, February 3 @ 04:00 GMT
is that Thursday, Feb.2 @ 08:00 PST ??
Dale, I think you and I are the only ones in this time zone
hey Udge, come in Udge ... where are you when we need you?
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc
Off by 24 hrs -- it's February 3rd, 8:00 AM, in our time zone.
I'm happy enough with 4pm GMT next Friday.
As I said a couple of weeks ago it is going to be almost impossible with more of us spread over 2 hemispheres to fix a time that suits everyone perfectly. I guess Jean and I (and possibly Udge/Ruth on CET) will still be at work, but as I recall Brenda did really well last time in a work situation. Lock the door, find an empty meeting room etc etc.
Dale, wasn't your idea to shift forward each month by 3 or 4 hours? ... I think that would be a good idea - gives everybody a chance at some point to get a time that more or less suits them.
11:00 AM, Feb 3rd, US Eastern time, 1:00 AM Saturday, Feb 4th, in Tokyo and Seoul. Jude loses out, this time (unless she's a real night owl) -- 2:00 am Saturday morning in Queensland.
I'm thinking now about moving forward 7 hours each time, which is odd enough to crawl us around the 24 in an equal-opportunity sort of way... I'm fond of the number 7 and how it interacts with Babylonian twelves, but I am, I realize, a dyed in the wool geek :-) So that would put the next sit, in March at 11:00 pm gmt (8:00 am saturday in Tokyo, 3:00 pm Vancouver)
time zones ....aaaarrrrgh
I meant 8 pm Feb.2, not 0800 Feb.2
thanks for link to time zone converter - it gives me same thing though: 8 pm Feb.2
Time is such a strange and artifical construct ... how much would be the difference if we all sat at different times, but THOUGHT we were sitting together?
I keep getting 8:00 am, Vancouver time, on the same calendar day, as the conversion of 4:00 pm, London time. Which seems right to me.
I don't think it would make any difference during the sit at all. If mind is, as they assure us, luminous, empty, and unimpeded, I don't see why twelve hours would rattle it any more than ten thousand miles would :-)
But it is fun to all check in afterwards at around the same time.
Ah, we did forget, didn't we. And I had been looking forward to it.
First Friday sounds fine and may be easier to remember. 4 pm GMT is 9am MST and 8am PST. Works for me. I could do with a reminder beforehand, of course.
Hello Janice, sorry to have been otherwise detained in your hour of need :-) but it seems to be worked out just fine. 4pm GMT on 2. Feb it is!
I would indeed normally be at work then, in a one-room office where it would be impossible to avoid rude remarks and withering glances, but I fear that I shall be sick on that afternoon (cough, cough).
Thi really is a wonderful group, I'm so glad that Zhoen pointed me in your direction.
My verification word is "ijsoalt": call me Tristan.
Sorry: Feb 3rd!
Hi all. I finally sat this afternoon, after doing some yoga. I didn't sit at all yesterday. I've not been sleeping well and it's hard to concentrate. But did spend 15 minutes today, and reasonably focused.
Have a good weekend, everyone.
hi everyone.
4pm doesn't work for me but go ahead as I can sit at 5 GMT on our break. Crazy actors' schedule continues.
I have sat the last couple of days, and even ran in the snow! I need it with this very very negative energy beside me 9 hours a day. My colleague was almost told to go home but in the end no-one had the courage to speak in any position of power. I swing between boiling over with rage at how much she is destroying the music and feeling quite peaceful in my 'buddha bubble' and with my other colleagues. Loving kindness is on hold for the moment whilst I simply try and get through each day. Not sure if I'm going to explode and if so what language will come out. I think the sitting is helping me though, at least to consider what I'm feeling before I react.
Hang in there Ruth. I can't even imagine trying to do creative work under those circumstances! I think you're doing a wonderful job to be able to achieve any mindfulness at all.
Ruth, much support to you, we all affect each other so much that someone who expresses nothing but negativity can be very hard! Glad the meditation is helping you to cope...
And, everyone, I absolutely LOVE reading the back-and-forth on time zones! Never mind Godot, just read 100 Days!
Someone will have to tell me, however, when for EST and what day in particular, because I'm a numbskull with such things!
Oh, I did a meditation that I love today... one breath a minute, for a total of 30 breaths for half an hour. It does something to the brain chemistry- to go from the normal 15-18 breaths per minute to one. The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide shifts. Whatever it does, it's nice. Slow and definitely not easy, not at first, all that discipline, that slow, slow input and output, but nice.
See you all in half an hour!
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