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I am in deepest shit. It is all my fault, because I have been such a procrastinator. Basically though, my menu for today (after a full 2.5 hours sleep) is an 8 hour working day, a 40 minute each way walk in the rain and probly working on a deadline until approx midnight. Pretty cool!
I really hate not posting things, so I posted this??? Anwyays, this comic will be printed in As You Were #3 curated by Mitch Clem! You’d better check it out because it’s awesome! You can find a recent kind of rudimentary page for As You Were here so yeah check it out! I’ll make a post when this issue comes out as well. But these are great and have lots of cool folks involved!
this gives me a lot of feelings about sexism in the workplace but also a lot of feelings about not being able to fine a job despite working really hard so it makes me angry that this fictional character found one
We’ve been seeing a lot of appearances of “Not-All-Man” today…
Metta Meditation Project Day 1
I wish you health I wish you joy I wish you love I wish you peace I wish you safety
Well, Rome wasn't built in a day.
I found it tricky. I didn't expect that I would find it easy, or that I would be in some transcendental place of love for myself and all mankind from minute one (or even year one, more to the point). The thing I found hardest was remembering all the 'wishes'; I had put them in alphabetical order so that I found it easier but they all started to melt into each other and I was stumbling over them sometimes.
I know this isn't the end of the world - it isn't, I believe I have the right intention and the right concentration, so it will just take practice. Breathing, loving and wishing all at once is a bit challenging for me, that's all. I just plan to do it every day, and see what happens.
After I did my full meditation, I had some time over, which I spent in normal breathing meditation. I'm trying not to assess this breathing meditation as an experience, rather, just sitting and concentrating on my breath. Not 'grasping' for progress or results or 'being a meditator', just doing it, as I will do tonight in my mindfulness practice.
Anyway, do I love the people that I've been meditating over any more yet? No. Does that matter? No. Isn't that great!?
When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.
S.N. Goenka (via thecalminside)
Dear Universe, please make meditation mandatory in schools. ASAP. thank you! #mindup #mindfulness #meditation #meditate #spiritjunkie #wellnesswonderland
Metta is my favorite type of meditation and the one I find least distracting. I didn’t expect to enjoy it so much because intercessory prayer was always a challenge to me.
It wasn’t hard to know how to pray or to genuinely want people to get better when I prayed, but I was never quite...
Metta, but I still don't like you, part 2
Dealing with difficult people:
http://www.mettadrum.com/2012/03/dealing-with-difficult-people.html
I guess I'm going to bulletpoint these and tattoo them to my hand
female privilege is feeling unsafe literally everywhere you go and men getting personally offended by you feeling unsafe
Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.
Gerald G. Jampolsky (via thecalminside)
Metta, but I still don't like you
I am struggling today.
My determination to meditate love and peace to people I may feel antipathy to is under strain, somewhat. In my last post I considered how I took against, and behaved negatively towards people, when I disliked certain aspects of their personality that they chose to present to the world. and how I didn't want to do that anymore.
One of those people, I dislike because she talks to me like I am a five year old with half a brain cell to my name. I have reason to dislike her. She is rude, doesn't listen, and doesn't talk to me in a respectful tone. She is someone I expect to have to go to for help in the future, because I am still learning my work, and she is a referral point.
I don't want to feel negatively towards her; on the contrary, I want to feel abundant peace and love and for her to feel it coming from me. But, I do not want to be talked to in the way she talks to me. There's no way we have the sort of relationship that I can actually tell her that, though.
I can tell, for my own part, that this is misplaced pride. While she talks *at* me, my little monster inside is screaming 'you can't talk to me like that, don't you know how clever I am?'. Which is ludicrous. Ludicrous. It doesn't matter. I need to separate my feelings about my own worth, skills and talents out of the conversation in my head when I talk to her. I must stay mindful when I get into conversation.
I'm just a little ant.
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.”
Lao Tzu (via floatingonatidalwave)
Metta
I have noticed, over a period of years, that I really have had trouble tolerating some people. They are usually a 'type' (maybe very outgoing/verbal or very opinionated), alternatively I am triggered if I hear them say a number of things that I find irritating or stupid. Of course, although I knew abstractly that it was my problem, I usually justified it by 'not suffering fools gladly', or 'having to suffer their presence'. I think there are reasons for this, partly socialisation, partly false pride, partly foolishness, partly insecurity. In reality, they were just normal people and I was (am?) a bit of a cow. Even worse, I reflect, they are usually women. Not exclusively. But usually. As someone who wishes to support and find sisterhood with all women, this is at best counterproductive.
But I've come to realise, starting a new job recently and stumbling across two or three people women I found profoundly annoying, that is of absolutely no use to me to feel this way about them, and not fair on them (even if they don't know (sometimes they do know, which is horrendous)). Reading stuff on Buddhism and Mindfulness recently I found some writing on Metta, (Philosophy and practice of universal love) and have decided to focus on this for a little while. Just a small meditation on metta when in the space with one of the people I find challenging, made a huge difference.
"I wish you safety, I wish you love, I wish you health, I wish you joy, I wish you peace" (rinse and repeat)
Funny how this stuff works.
Thoughts that wish all beings to be friendly and never hostile, happy and never unhappy, to enjoy well-being and never be distressed, imply not only sublimity and boundlessness, but also utter freedom of mind. Hence the appropriateness of the expression "universal love leading to freedom of mind"
Acharya Buddharakkhita
A hangover on a wednesday morning is...
..oh god, drinking alone watching telly as an absurd rebellion against going to bed
...oh god, I have so much to get done today which is going to be so much harder now
...oh god, that's the diet blown again
...oh god, where's my self control?
I have been berating myself with these thoughts this morning, but it is pointless. Recriminations won't bring the evening back any more than worrying about how much work I have to do will help me do it. I have a hangover. That is all.
I do forgive myself for getting drunk when I didn't choose to. I am going to sit with the headache and accept it. I am going to be mindful when I feel like avoiding work today, and put my best into it.
