Week 20 Day 3

Medi object choiceless awareness

Intention - to practise in a strange place

Afternoon all! Had to get to work before typing this and it was a glorious day today! Meditated until my room service (!) came. Got back to hotel

at 1am

last night.

Metta for 5 mins, then noting for about 20. Today the room was very quiet, as I meditated it almost felt a bit boring! Now I know why people like to meditate outside plenty to listen to. Anyhoo, it was exceedingly quiet in the room, all I heard was the ringing in my ears. I sometimes saw the light from the television on my eyelids. I also saw green light receding into the distance. Most of my thoughts were about how quiet the room was. In fact, could there be some aversion to the silence? Interesting. I observed the breath and noted the peripheral sensations - my hands on my knees, the moderate room temperature, the ringing in my ears. A few itches occurred, one I had to scratch and the others I let come and go.

Here's a nice pic of the walk to work.

L