Missed meditating with Shams, broke an 8 day streak.
This blog is written with the spirit of communicating with my spiritual friend, Shams, Suvidya and others.
Yesterday there was some upheaval in Iran. A woman was hassled and roughed up, her clothes ripped because someone thought they could tell her she wasn't covering her hair right, and she had enough and just took off her clothes. Hard to see what is going on the world and not be sidetracked by it. Upcoming election is of concern, I hope everyone votes in the USA. Good tests for equanimity, and I think I would like to pull back from paying attention to politics.
My meditation practice has evolved to this. 4 days of Brahma-viharas, 4 days anapanasati, 2 days 6 element practice, 2 days Budhanasati. It's a 12 day cycle. I try to meditate 3 times 40 or 2x 60 minutes every day, often I don't, but I aspire to minimally meditate 2 hours every day. After the focused meditation, I just sit.
I mentioned Non-Violent Communication to Shams the other day. I should reread the book. It really helped me realize needs are emotional and relational, not material really, though of course we all need food, warmth and shelter.
Thinking about my riff to Suvidya, I think we need to develop ethically
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