zenjones

As excited as I am about starting practice period, I am also resistant. My “pattern interrupt” for this month is not reading while I eat and while I get dressed. So while I was dressing this morning, I kept picking up my book automatically and then catching myself and putting it down. I spent most of the time noticing how annoyed I was at not being able to do my regular thing.

My menu item for today is “notice blaming.” The challenge will be to just notice it, not to judge it, or castigate myself for it.

I’m interested in what the rest of the zen group is doing during this period. If any of you think it’d would be helpful to your awareness practice to write in this blog, I’d be happy to have you. And it’s very easy–just push the comment button below and type in the box that comes up. Then put submit comment, and you are done! The more adventurous among you can even post images.

I hope to write here most practice period days, to heighen my own awareness, and to perhaps bring me out of my mechanicalness.