Went to a new meditation session this evening at the local yoga centre. Really good. Non-prescriptive, gentle guidance in a beautiful setting and well attended. Will definitely go again. Shame it’s only once a month at the moment. Fingers crossed for weekly.
“Memory is a liar. It’s a heap of dog-eared, smudged, incessantly revised fictions.”
— Peter Schjeldahl
Back to work tomorrow and it’s my weekend to work. Here’s hoping the sun keeps shining and the land gets a chance to dry out a bit. It’s so saturated that even the slightest rain can flood the roads.
It’s a beautiful day out there. A walk across the fields in the sunshine for coffee seems like a good idea.
“Meditation is not about becoming a better person or a more spiritual person. It’s about becoming a more honest person.”
— Barry Magid, Ordinary Mind Zendo
I enjoy Day One Journal’s On This Day feature popping up, as it does, entries from years past. The older the entries the more I don’t recognise the author. Many seem written by someone I can barely relate to, someone completely different which, in one sense, is true.
“The point of Zen is not to escape life, but to live it completely, to taste fully the richness, the sweetness, the bitterness, the sourness, and the umami of every moment.”
— Barry Magid, Ordinary Mind Zendo
Whatever a tree does, whatever a fly does, whatever the sea does, whatever a penguin does, whatever a star does; we’re busy doing our version of it.
“Meditation/ contemplation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”
— Alan Watts