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    Sitting With Various...Things (and Non-Things)

    After zazen this afternoon I went outside for a cig. As I was smoking I reminded myself to be mindful while I was out there.

    I took some slow deep breaths.Felt that zazen groove coming back. And I just stood..in the zone so to speak..with various things. The grass...the pond outside..
    Just stood with them, dropping all thoughts of this or that.

    I began to feel a loving peace within myself.And after i focused my attention on say the grass.. It seemed like they were radiating this same loving peace as well. Each little blade seemed ..different.. not like a "mass of grass" but individual blades all full of love. Other weeds and such in the yard, all full of love.

    I switched my view to the pond, after a few moments same thing.

    Came back inside, sat with my computer speakers..monitor, desk. Little odds and ends on the desk. And after a few moments, each thing seemed to stick out more. Radiating this same loving kindness.

    Normal? or No? Thoughts?

    Dave _/_

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    Re: Sitting With Various...Things (and Non-Things)

    That's awesome! Now can you walk away from the experience / memory and next time you sit with grass, just sit with grass? Taking nothing away from your past experience, bringing nothing to the current...

    Other than that, who am I to say what's normal? I'm one of the most normally abnormal people you could meet...

    _/_ Nate

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    Re: Sitting With Various...Things (and Non-Things)

    Very normal...just don't get too caught up in it or dwell on it for very long, which I'm guessing you already know.

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    Nate, well we'll see what tommorrow brings.

    Dosho. So for once I'm normal? :lol: I actually caught myself starting to get attached later in the day. I kindly reminded myself, "I don't even know what that was..could be anything. Why am I getting attached?" Then just dropped it.

    I've had similar experiences but more of a random thing. Not something I could go and recreate a few times.

    In the end if it happens again, I'll just accept. If not, oh well.

    Dave _/_

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    Re: Sitting With Various...Things (and Non-Things)

    I want some of what was in your cigarette .

    But I do like it when that happens. Or when things just chill out, like walls and chairs etc.

    Doesn't mean anything special but it makes a change.

    Cheers,

    Paul

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    Re: Sitting With Various...Things (and Non-Things)

    When I was in college we used to pass cigarettes like that back and forth so everyone could share the experience, lol. Now days, I guess the best you can do is post to a thread in an online forum, which is fine and, unlike my college method, legal.

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