Knowing How to Close

Two days to go…
Had about four days of detour into various kinds of distraction, anxiety and fragmentation, which is too bad, because before that was a solid week of pretty much constant concentration in and around the 2-4th jhana, peeking into the 5th.
Right now I’m in a bit of a [...]

Balancing the Equation

With about ten days to go, it remains to be seen whether or not I will fullfill the goal of becoming an arahat. And while it may seem on the face of it a wildly unattainable goal, especially given the level of effort I’m able to actually give this practice, I must say [...]

Exactly

With a certain amount of reluctance, I must concede that my new favorite website is steve pavlina dot-com.
I will grant that there is a certain saccharine edge to his stuff that is slightly unpalatable to me, but I will chalk that up to a slightly different demographic, and a higher quotient of punk rock in [...]

under the tree

wanted to write something today, even if it’s not too scintiliating.
First I was kind of sick, then I was just busy, now I feel like I have too many ideas in my head to act on succinctly.
When I got to the end of the by-now-notorious debacle that was the augoeides project, I [...]