Today’s favourite poses: Dawg, Cat, Child,
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 10. no more, no less
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading: (Taken from At Home in the Muddy Waters by Ezra Bayda)
Nonetheless, we continue to believe in our thoughts, especially those most deeply conditioned. It’s our urgent need to avoid the groundlessness , the anxious quiver of being, that drives us to embrace our concepts, our beliefs, our judgements – in order to gain some footing, a measure of security, a sense of living in a known world. And, of course, there’s the juicy gratification of “being right”.
What are we really doing when, for example, we sit in meditation allowing ourselves to get lost in planning? We’re simply living in the mental world, where we can try to make life ordered, stable, and predictable. We’re avoiding the “whatness” – the discomfort and uncertainty of the present moment. In those moments when we fall into the muddy water of uncertainty, can we just stay with the “what” of our experience without escaping into thinking, analyzing, judging, blaming or believing?
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