#3.11.2020

[bastardpacs]

march 11, 2020 | one year anniversary of Lance Archer’s debut on AEW Dynamite

[unapolageticallyb]

Six Years ago today, on March 11, 2020 COVID 19 was declared a global pandemic.

A moment that changed our lives forever.

Today we pause to honor the lives we lost, the families forever impacted, and the empty seats that still hurt. We remember the sirens, the silence in our streets, and the uncertainty we all felt.

We also lift up the essential workers, the doctors, nurses, transit workers, grocery clerks, delivery drivers, sanitation crews, and first responders who showed up every single day when the rest of the world shut down. You carried us through the darkest days.

And we recognize how our city came together. Neighbors helping neighbors. Applause from windows. Food drives. Mutual aid. Love in the middle of fear.

It was hard. It was heavy. It was tragic. But it also showed our resilience.

We will never forget. 🖤

[prosy-days]

November 3, 2020 - Day 137

I’m glad for my friends and having calls with them and other distractions.

[godsnameisjoy]

ALL THE TIME

Date: 3 November 2020

Duration: 66 minutes at 10:10 pm

Depth:

Today’s concentration was effortlessly good. At a deep part of my mind, I practiced the Hong Sau. The meaning of Hong Sau wasn’t entirely lost tonight.

The noise cutting ear plugs are doing wonders. I am left with only one voice in my head after the ear plugs are put on. And it is easy to coax one’s voice to say what you want it to say, after so many years of a meditation practice. My mind is, generally speaking, obedient to my demands. It is definitely not as rebellious and unruly as it used to be. It has taken time and patient practice to make my mind agreeable. It has been completely worth the effort to make mind so agreeable.

I began today’s session with a sinking feeling. I was suddenly aware that even today I hadn’t attempted ‘meditating all the time’. Paramahansa Yogananda recommends that reading, writing, thinking, and meditating have their due time-attention weightage. He says in one of his books: “If you read one hour, then write two hours, think three hours, and meditate all the time.”

Doesn’t sound very practical but how can I deny the efficacy of Paramahansa Yogananda’s methods. His teachings work! I know this, for a fact. I know that that this particular suggestion to ‘meditate all the time’ will also work if only I knew how to make it work. And I have thought about ways to make it work. And failed ‘all the time’.

So tonight, I asked the invisible God for a solution. I asked right at the end of my session. And I didn’t wait for any ideas to pop up. I wasn’t patient with the response to my prayer. If something does turn up, I hope to write about it. I do, I seriously do want this one habit in place though: ‘meditate all the time’.