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| I don't know where this picture originated but it was the sub-reddit pic for /r/meditation for some time. |
I listened to most of this talk by Thanissaro Bhikkhu: The Art and Study of Practice. The talk is supposed to be 1hr 17m long but the mp3 of it claimed to be over seven hours long. I think I listened to about 45 minutes of it and when I started it up again, it was repeating itself. So I did not finish it.
It did get me to read some of In the Buddha's Words by Bhikkhu Bodhi which I put in my bathroom so I can read it a piece at a time. "Bikkhu" is the Pali word for "Monk." Bikkhu Bodhi is well known for his translations of the Pali Cannon into English.
Also in my bathroom which I read a bit out of today was Who Ordered this Truck Load of Dung? by Ajahn Brahm. "Ajahn" in Pali, is "teacher." Ajahn Brahm is the monk who's talk I listened to yesterday. He is well known for his teaching on getting into Jhana States, and having his talks full of funny self-depreciating stories, and bad jokes.
I read more of The Mantram Handbook by Eknath Easwaran and reviewed parts of With Each and Every Breath by Thanissaro Bhikkhu which helped me with some breathing issues in my meditation.
I talked some with my sister Katie in France. We talked about future plans, this blog and The Enneagram as well as the podcast The Road Back to You. I am a Enneagram type 9 and I am still finding interesting ways that it plays out in my life and things I need to watch out for. Things like starting a blog and then not keeping it up which is why I started talking about the enneagram with her in the first place.
The only show I watch all the way through today was DC's Legends of Tomorrow: S1E2: "Pilot: Part 2"
I also read to page 442 of Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
I studied pages 109-114 of How to Reassess Your Chess (Fourth Edition) by Jeremy Silman the beginning of part 3 on rooks.
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