Week 28 Day 4

Medi object choiceless awareness
Intention to remain alert

Morning all! Today back to tube practice for 40 mins. At the end 5 mins metta.

Today felt quite alert but head full of thoughts. I sat eyes closed and gradually the thoughts left my head one by one. I cycled through the senses. When it came to smell a faint curry smell wafted towards me which was interrupted by someone coming to sit down next to me. I felt some fidgeting and opened my eyes to see a woman take a foam earplug out of a tin...a minute later it was in her ear. The shuffling previously must have been for the other ear plug. Unusual.

I heard the announcements which were clipped at the start of the message and the door alarms would sound before the announcement finished.  Realise now that the sound of pressured air is the mechanism for opening and closing the doors.

The connecting train arrived on the platform as soon as I alighted the first one. Today, Chinese tourists on board. The woman opposite me had a plethora of notebooks and was leafing through each of them scribbling notes. I noticed her huge handbag had a laptop in it as well.

I practised some metta towards the end, must read the books, I struggle with this form of meditation. Sometimes I think I've got it and at other times I'm not so sure.

Mood neutral today, possible grumpy. Anyway happy Hump Day! Nearly the weekend.

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