Long day at work-not nasty

“You might remember times when you were completely in the wrong, bad and mean, or ignorant and immoral. Might be times when your heart was pure, and good”
-Practicing Lay Person

I heard this guy say this quote above this week at the group sit. Pretty ripe, old man. He said that he learnt to live now, just learnt driving a car, and just learnt being mindful – yeah, quite a lot to say in one sentence.

What I kept learning this week (if there is a such thing ‘week’), was to recognize, to see. Earlier if I felt energy I will waste it, if I did not feel it then I will crave it …

To know things to be anicca, anatta, dukkha, to treat stuff as same, ahh to recognize this and still work, truthfully.


You know, I was coming back from work, train of thoughts lead to the same realization that had come in myriad ways - all experience to be just that, anicca.

As soon as I realize this, my body relaxed, with each breath the body could relax, breathe through the knots, let it break loose. Doing yoga it did occur that it was better to just breathe ... long way, need sati first.

It is good merits that people become skillful - memory, inclination, capacity to learn and understand Dhamma.

Joy

More than 'joy' there is a deeper rhythm

we call it joy for lack of better words

Write less, right more :)

Anyhew

Remembrance, drives past me

Sun, the shades, the air seems to live within me, of years gone by


not me, not me anymore

Unwrap the Gift

One needs to have appreciation to use the gifts you have. Whether you appreciate your microwave or not, it will still work the same. Alas! Not the same with ‘gifts’.

We need to acknowledge, be aware of our strengths, to bring them out, esp. when you meditate ... notice and look back, love and appreciate. Appreciate is to actually know the finer aspects, like a skilled jeweler who knows his art.

So, as you come to discover the finer aspects of your strengths, or gifts, you begin work optimally, with yourself, with all your being.

Peace

Old Tibetan Saying:
To know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers is characteristic of an excellent man [Tiy 61].

To die

How will be my last goodbye
will I rise, will I lie


Will I love, when I die
will I change when I die

Will it be unspeakable
will it be respectable

Will it just be
when I let go of me

Jewellery shopping

Sometimes as you live in the world, but not of it -U get to do a lot of things.

Sighhh

Went jewellery shopping - plain painful.

What are you breathing?

Lately have been eating a lot - with all its implied consequences.

There was a time when until two weeks back I could not eat two wraps in a go, now I can easily eat stuff.

However, I turned to think (since fluctuations in eating was not new to me), why is this happening?

There are times when little food energises - why?

Turns out the secret lies with the breath. What am I breathing?