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Meditation-Mindfulness JournalHome - Contact - Bio - My Other Sites - The real problem with reaching Nirvana Day 9, Rain stopped? Mindful climbing of the steps.5/11/08 |
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It rained all last night - intense rain. I don't know if this is from the Cyclone that killed all those people in Burma or not. Someone said 600,000 died. Is that unreal? In Florida before I left we had 3 hurricanes come through that season. No more than 10 people died in all of them I'd guess. Is Burma that backward? That's completely amazing that in this time - 2008, even 100,000 could die from a natural disaster that the world KNEW was coming. There was lots of advance warning. How does that happen? Anyway, Southern Thailand gets its share of rain without cyclones too. I am planning to do some exercise and walking meditation today. My mood is very calm - nothing stressing me out. No, I don't have everything taken care of in my life - but, little has the power to affect me anymore. Meditation does that - gives one a good perspective on things. It's very cloudy right now - but I'll try to go out for a bit and see what happens. I'll write more when I return. Assuming I return... One cannot cling to the idea that there's a future at all really - yes? Sawasdee krup..... Ok, I'm back. I went up the mountain twice today - thinking I had lots of energy. The 2nd time was pretty rough. It was hot - the sun was still shining on that side of the hill and there was zero wind and 95-100% humidity. It was so tough! One of the toughest times I've ever climbed once. But, once rested at the top and cooled off by the wind I decided to try again. Half way up the second time the realization hit me - wow, my heart's beating way too fast. Much faster than usual. I took it slow from that point on - but suffered the whole way up and down. Backing up... From the time I started up the steps the first time - I was in complete mindfulness. That amazing thoughtless state where it's just experiencing... very few thoughts came to mind the whole way up. I met few people - so that helped me maintain the state. Maybe the entire way up - I had thoughts just 2-3 times. They were quick one-sentence thoughts that were just mind comments about whether there was pain behind my left knee or not... and another thing I can't recall now. Once at the top there were a few people. The wind was cool a couple of places around the rim of the top and while taking photos and videos I discovered a new function of my camera. I've had it for about 2 years. More than that. I discovered multi-burst mode. I played with that a while. Here are some images from it below... What it appears to do is fire off 16 photos in a very short time - It said 1/7.5" So - is that 75 hundreds of a second? Not sure at all. Anyway, here are some photos from it. Ok, on second thought - it's not so cool. It takes 16 photos - very small and puts them in a timeline sort of format - almost like still frames from a movie clip - but the photos are so closely spaced in time that they aren't very unique. I must not have moved the camera enough. Oh well, never mind that. Take a look at the video below instead. More people came up the steps as the rain looked like it was going to stay away for a while. I didn't sit at the top like I thought I might. Instead I took photos and talked to a young couple from Dublin, Ireland. I meet people from all over the world on these trips up the hill - that's half the reason I do them. So, as I said - I went down and up and down again and then back home to eat some French bread from the big market which really isn't half bad. Or maybe I don't have a taste for bread anymore after 42 months of rice daily. I ate it plain as usual. Tonight I was going to just eat another few bananas and call it a night - but, I realized I have some spaghetti pasta leftover in the bag. Hmm... I have some butter in the cooler... Might just be a pasta & butter night. Will sit for a while first since there is some feeling that the state is still with me, and has been all day. It's funny - I keep ignoring the state when it comes, and when I don't have it - I think - hmm, wonder where it's been. Now it's been here since I woke up 12 hours ago and I ignore sitting and do other things... Strange how/why I do that. Oh, before I forget - I did do a quick run around the entire top of the mountain so I could get a 360 view on video. Not sure how it turned out - but I'll put it below once I get fast internet access. Right now I have none from home as the service must be down with all the rain.
360 Degree
View from Top of Wat Tum Sua > Oh, I haven't mentioned yet - I'm working on another site. Did I mention it? Hmm. It's called, GuruGone.com. Have a look if you like, it's not finished by any means -but the basic idea is there. Might move this blog /journal over to that domain after a while or may keep it separate. Not at all sure at this point. This blog (seemlessness) has moved and even changed names over the last year. I have the seemlessness.com domain or seamlessness.com domain - can't remember which. I could move it back there too. Attention Deficit Disorder is NOT fun... man, if I could just be happy with it as it is...
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