Mindfulness

[Beany Boo]

Thanks MM and MF

I think indignity from routine mistreatment is an accepted part of contemporary life for a lot of people. I’m trying to get as close to a constant state of readiness to bounce those encounters.

Indignity will wear you down.

[Beany Boo]

I’ve come up with a meditation.

First draft:

In your mind, set in front of you, is a blank piece of paper on a desk. In your hand is a pen. You can write or draw anything on the paper. What you write or draw will rise off the paper and become real. There is no urgency to choose what to write or draw.

[manuel_moe_g]

whoa, cool

i gotta play with this

thanks, Beany!

[Beany Boo]

You’re welcome MM

[manuel_moe_g]

i am picturing drawing a little dragon, not a major art piece, just a dragon drawn with a few swoops of the pen

the little dragon comes alive and floats and flies around the room!

[Beany Boo]

Life is powerful and beautiful MM

[Beany Boo]

I don’t need to like my colleagues
I don’t need them to like me

I’ve just realized it and suddenly I feel completely free

Free to give them my full support finally

Whoa…

[manuel_moe_g]

i heard this way of putting it, which is a shocking way to put it: "What you think of me is none of my business"

when i was young, i cared <so> much about what other people thought of me

how i can hardly remember that feeling

I don’t need to like my colleagues
I don’t need them to like me

I’ve just realized it and suddenly I feel completely free

You are the Zen Master of the forum, Beany, and we all like you, because of who you have continually revealed yourself to be

outstanding stuff you are working on, as usual

[Beany Boo]

Thanks MM

[Beany Boo]

Getting into my disgust today;

The urge to like/dislike.

Disgust was forbidden to me growing up; because if I showed it my parents took it as a sign they weren’t perfect.

For a long time, to survive psychologically, I struggled to pretend it wasn’t there.

Now I know it’s natural and not a reflection on anyone else.

If I let myself feel disgust I can better savor and relish things genuinely.