I don't remember how many days into this it is any more. My keeping up with the posting kind of fell off when I got to be confident about how steady my practice was. It's been a wonderful experience to continue making an effort towards a daily practice.
There have been a very small number of days that I missed. Missed might be the wrong word, because they were skipped out of pure laziness. The good news though is that my determination to practice every day didn't go off the rails just because I missed a sitting. In the past when I've tried to establish a daily practice, all it would take was one day and that'd be it. Thankfully the opposite has been true. The few times that I've skipped have been the exception. I've made a special effort not to beat myself up about it. I just reaffirm my intention to make this as regular as brushing my teeth.
A lot has happened since my last post. I went on a retreat in early May out in California. I went to go sit with Gil Fronsdal (you can hear many of his talks at http://www.audiodharma.org ). As a special bonus Andrea Fella (who also has some great talks at audio dharma as well) was the other teacher for the retreat. A week was really too short. I'd love to be able to do a month long or longer at some point, but thats not really doable, right now, being a salaried employee.
I'm doing two talks this week for Philadelphia Insight on "Effort". We're also planning a camping retreat in October, which I'm totally jazzed about.
I'm going to make an effort to post here more regularly. I think its good to take some time to reflect on my sittings, even if it does feel like I'm posting the same thing day after day.
Drop by drop...
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