zenjones

I’ve been studiously ignoring the Practice Period Agreement ever since I printed it out last week. For an explanation of practice period, you can go here (nice web design, Ann!). I usually love practice period. Am always surprised.

So “How do you see your primary gap in practice, and how, specifically, do you plan to address it?” I’m asleep all the time. “Asleep” in the zen sense of being not aware. My particular manifestation would be legion, but mostly I believe my own thoughts. I also hide from what I’m doing with addiction. My addiction? Reading. I read while I eat, I read while I brush my teeth, I read while I’m talking to friends and clients on the phone. I used to read while I drove but that got a little dicey. I’ve considered inventing waterproof paper so I can read in the shower. And that’s always the worst part of sesshin for me–all that lovely time when I could be reading.

So I think I’ll not read when I eat. Agh.

And I’m going to blog daily, about my practice that day.

One more question on the agreement: How do you plan to make your practice more continuous throughout the day? I’ll set my Outlook reminder to go off every half hour, with a different item from the “menu items” list.

Makes me think of the Roz Chast cartoon, “National Everything Awareness Day“.