I was going to sit tonight, but it is too late and I need to start getting to bed earlier, not using constructed parameters as rigid requirements that result in poor self care. Things I did today: Nearly burned the Read more…
Today’s slogan is, In postmeditation, be a child of illusion. This is slogan number six, because I completely skipped the first one. I read all about it and then promptly absorbed it as something other than a slogan: First, train Read more…
Today I spent much of the day repping my March Shredness essay, trying to “win.” This goes against what I read today, but Pema Chödrön stresses the need to lighten up, so I will go easy on myself for still Read more…
Yesterday and today I read from Pema Chödrön’s Start Where You Are. She is an American Buddhist nun, and she founded a Tibetan monastery in Nova Scotia for Westerners. The first chapters of Pema’s book deal with bodhicitta, the awakened/saddened Read more…
My days are too full of useless tasks and not full enough of those I need. Im going to bed too late and not sitting, tonight I read about and then listened to a talk on tonglen, or loving kindness. Read more…
I’d put something off for awhile, and today I finally had to knuckle down and spend 3 dumb hours on it, that I could have spent doing innumerable other, more pleasant things. Now it is late, and I have not Read more…
Today I read a chapter on Dhamma-Vinaya (The Doctrine and Discipline) in the Theravada tradition. The book is called The State of Mind Called Beautiful by Sayadaw U Pandita. After the intro, the first topics covered are the four protective Read more…
Remember when ten percent of the year came rushing up? And now it seems to be taking forever to get to twenty. Today, the insulators came to assess the job site for next Tuesday’s crawlspace redux. Then the arborist came Read more…
Vipassana means “to see things as they really are.” According to dhamma.org, Vipassana is …a way of self-transformation through self-observation. It focuses on the deep interconnection between mind and body, which can be experienced directly by disciplined attention to the Read more…
Today was the first day that I didn’t have to grade anything since January 8th or so. It has made me really think about whether or not I want to teach. The extra money is very useful, but I can’t Read more…