meditate regularly

Sitting facing a wall is a stupid thing to do… don’t knock it until you try it a few times….it is stupid, but it does something over time.

Everything is a waste of time when you think about it….. doesn’t stop me from doing things though… doing things makes me feel so much better about life.

My Meditation technique comes from a book called “Hard core ZEN” – Brad Warner. I found this an excellent guide for zen in general.

At the end of the day it involves just sitting. I set a timer for 15 minutes (so I don’t need to think about it), face a featureless wall and sit up straight, “with your vertibrae one on top of the other”.... eyes open look straight ahead then just watch your thoughtsfloat by… don’t play with them or explore them or even try to stop them..let em drift by… after ten minutes they will slow down and eventually stop all together (no rush if they don’t).

Brad could probably point out what I missed bu this is how I do it.

This update is for Dru (I’m in a training course right now so I don’t have his blog address- sorry dude)
http://www.43things.com/person/Dru2

the first 10 minutes the mind runs round all the crap that has been going on in the last day, what someone said, how it made me feel, what I should have said back and how can I have everything i want… then I get 5 minutes of relative mental quite (with a little bit of scratching). I’m always surprised when the timer goes off to mark the end of 15 mins.

Each night 15 minutes… I’m feeling better now

Out of the things I’ve started I’ve kept this one up the best (?) Every night I have done my 10 minutes

So thats 10 mins a night every night… so far two out of two…