OK, I'm awake. I'm leaning toward taking the exam after breakfast, and then heading to the condo afterward for one or two nights. They said I could wait until Friday, but I think I'd rather get it over with while the studying is fresh in my brain ( Read more... )

I crashed hard after I got home, and so I'm up early. Thursday before a 3-day holiday weekend. I will stretch and run, and then try to get all caught up on work so I can quit early. And then ... I have no plans, similar to last weekend ( Read more... )

Diamond Sutra, but applied to myself ( Read more... )

Mainly this round of the game has been teaching me that I'm sleep deprived.  Because I keep falling asleep when I meditate, now that the minutes are double-digits.  So, I need to work on sleeping more ( Read more... )

Once again I'm playing my meditation game. So far I've been doing pretty well, only missing one day of the first eight days. If I managed to meditate six days per week, I'd be pretty happy with myself ( Read more... )

She doesn't know me from Adam or Eve, she's literally dealing out teachings and assignments at random,

Cheri Huber,

OK, we've agreed, I purchased the thing I learned about at your website, you're going to be my Zen teacher now,

Fuck the fuckin' fuck, no way, THAT'S my first assignment?

"Your self-hate is telling you that you cannot do it."Fuck ( Read more... )

A friend of mine who is an author recently tweeted (in part):

"I have struggled with mental illness (depression and anxiety),"

and I thought, who hasn't felt depressed or anxious? Seriously ( Read more... )

I haven't read one of Cheri Huber's books in over a decade, but I read a lot of them between 2002 and 2008. She's one of my favorite Zen authors.

The book of hers I was most likely to recommend to others was "There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate". I'm re-reading it now, I'm about halfway through ( Read more... )

Stretched, ran, cooked dinner, and meditated! I'm on a roll ( Read more... )

Played Gloomhaven last night instead of hot tub. I'm enjoying the Guildmaster mode more than the Campaign mode at the moment, but I'm playing some of each. I was battling three rooms of wolves and imps and my last character collapsed when the last enemy had only one hit point left, nooooooooo! Couldn't have been any closer to victory! The imps ( Read more... )