20 Mar. Green man.

We went for a walk in the forest. It was cold, wet and misty. My wife and daughter wanted to go back. "Let's take this path, it will take us back to the car", I said breaking the fourth precept. The ground became very muddy. I lifted my daughter up and carried her through the …

13 Sep. Desire.

Inspired by this blog post here I thought about desire. That I have never really considered it to be a form of suffering. Not getting what I want - yes, that's suffering! But desire - no. The more I think about it the more I understand that desire is like physical pain, like loneliness, like …

2 Nov. A wreck under blue sky.

Meditation is going great. (Talking to myself: Just sit and focus on the breath/body. When the focus is there - thoughts are missing. When the focus is lost - mind wandering begins. It's either this or that. Time is a string of present moments, even if meditation was poor just a second ago, it is no …

18 Sep. Dark clouds on the horizon.

Saturday morning - 40 minutes. Until my daughter woke up. I was hoping to sit much longer than that. Saturday night - 30 minutes. Sunday night - 20 minutes. Each of them - great: Whenever a thought arose I remembered that the present moment always overwrites the past. So as soon as I realized that my …

28 Aug. Concentration.

Not sure what happened, but my night sittings seem to be better than the morning ones recently. When I'm sleepy I open my eyes. I start meditation with metta towards people who pissed me off, hurt me, I feel threatened by or heard about in the news. I do it wholeheartedly. Isn't all evil generated either …