the good afternoon

amazing afternoon with dyane and carolyn. i love those women. we have a nice shared vocabulary and our talks tend to meander between the this and the that and then wham something deep and pithy.

i miss having sangha. i think my practice would be a lot stronger — er, i mean existant — if i had sangha close by.

i brought up my ny's ressie with dyane (former medical dr.) and carolyn (who is a clinical psychologist). i wanted to know, what does my procrastination mean/stem from... wondering if they had any magic potions for me to cut through my own bullshit.

all comments were good and meaty and food for thought. dyane mentioned hearing our teacher once say that people say they don't meditate because they don't have time. however, he notices that when he meditates an hour a day he naturally begins to use his time more wisely and finds he has a lot more time to do other things. and that when he meditates three hours a day he becomes even more efficient. naturally. not in order to get things down. it just naturally happens.

so i have pledged to them to sit for one hour a day (broken up into two half hour sessions) for the next 30 days. i am holding myself accountable to them. and now to you, too.