Week 14 Day 3

Week 14 Day 3
Medi object choiceless
Intention labelling clearly

Afternoon all. Phew what a day! Just finished scoffing my ______ {fill in the gap...you know I love em} after a frantic day trying to get all things done. Ran a meeting, updated all documents relating to that meeting, Plus set something up early, so no need to worry about that tomorrow.

Today's practice was better than yesterday, in that it was not so dispersed. I labelled frantically and managed to note quite a few sounds but they don't half come at once! Sights, feelings, smells - I believe someone let out a tube fart (argh! I had to be equanimously receptive). Unfortunately I went down a planning thought rabbit hole but managed to extricate myself from it. Second half of tube journey I was standing and when a seat came free and I was too far away for me to get to it, I cursed - is this attachment! As I stood I was musing about solidity and impermanence. Is Ingram saying that EVERYTHING is impermanent and that we are all made up of tiny vibrations? I'm reading page 17 (again). It states "Things come and go. Nothing lasts for even an instant! Absolute transience is truly the fundamental nature of experiential reality". Ooookay. So I'm trying to think that only what I sense exists. So if I can't feel my hands, then they don't exist (at that instant).

I guess we all think everything lasts forever. My mother grew up from aged 12 in a flat in downtown Kowloon (Hong Kong). 40 years later, the landlord managed to evict them. They moved to the place they now live in (they don't like moving around much...). I had lived most of my Hong Kong life in that flat.  I was in the UK already as they moved out. I returned a year later...the building had been razed to the ground, a year later a 30 storey hotel was in its place! Ok so this is rather chunky as an example, but for me it demonstrates that the things you think are going to be there forever, disappear in an instant. Mind you the place I lived in at Muswell Hill between age 0 to 6, is still there! May be reality is different in London than it is in Hong Kong!

Ok back to the grind! Speak later!