Post 905, Day 212 of 2013
- and 943 days since I started this blog -
Daily Comment
- and 943 days since I started this blog -
I wanted to answer Andy's comment on yesterday's Daily Comment here, today, because it reminded me...
First of all, there was a flaw in what I wrote yesterday, which Andy caught (and amplified): I talked about the joy in expectation, and didn't make that clear. As Andy knows, I am full of gratitude and joy every day I wake up - and the first minutes of every day, when I meditate - are celebrations of that. These are times when there is no 'later'.
But then I prepare for the rest of the day, and while I spend every conscious minute grateful, there is less joy knowing the rest of the day will not be spent pursuing my own bliss (as it were) in the present.
Instead, I will remove myself to a place of work; and while I am grateful as can be for my good fortune at being able to work and having a job to work at, the job does not inspire joy.
The joy of my job comes from contemplating its end for the day, or for the week, and permanently, when I retire in thirty years.
There are quite a few things that I have pushed off for retirement, all of which would be good for me right now, none of which I feel are right for right now, for one reason or another. I never think about these things when I am in the moment, and that's one indication that they're not current needs.
I've said before, and will say again - this is the best time of my life, and I'm profoundly grateful. whenever I think about now, I'm full of joy.
And gratitude. The difference is, I'm grateful all the time, joyful only when I'm present - and not being that good at mindfulness, that isn't all the time, at least not consciously.
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Food and Diet Section
Today's Weight: 211.0 lbs
Food and Diet Section
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| 2013 Daily Weight |
Yesterday's Weight: 210.6 lbs
Day Net Loss/Gain: + 0.4 lbs
Diet Comment
So, how's that soft-serve at work everyday doing for you? Ha! About as well as my new 2-Protein Bar-a-day habit. I'll stop the latter before the former, though.
Food Log
BreakfastChia gel.
Lunch
At Ling-Ling's Chinese Buffet and Grill:
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| Brussels sprouts, kimchee, and, from the "Mongolian Grill", my go-to dish, pork and chicken with cabbage, onions, mushrooms, green peppers and broccoli. |
Snack
Soft-serve ice cream.
Dinner
Eaten very late: a Protein bar, a bowl of Ezekiel Sprouted grain cereal with blueberries, almond-coconut milk and coconut sugar.
Liquid Intake
Coffee: 32 oz. Water: 64+ oz. 2 shots of Jameson's.
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I've a few thoughts to share with you -
ReplyDeleteTo be present in the Here & Now doesn't require that you be in a mystical trance or meditative state. I think that it is more a matter of focusing your attention on what is happening now. On what you are doing now and what is happening around you now . When your attention starts to drift away from what is happening now, chasing your thoughts &/or emotions, you just refocus when you notice you've become distracted..
It has occurred to me that you may be using the word "joy" as interchangeable with "happy". I think that we ( our generation at least) are happy when we are doing what we want or value or find pleasantly stimulating. Five days a week you go to work at a job that you do not like and do not find stimulating. It makes you unhappy. Why do you do it? Because this job is an integral part of your plan for retirement It has value in that it is a necessary step towards your goal. Looked at in this way, it Is something you want to do. Maybe you can be happy. Happiness/unhappiness - two sides of the coin. you can find joy in knowing that you can experience the fullness of the duality and not be deviated from your path.
I think "Joy" is the natural,fundamental expression of awareness and being. Now, all beings on all levels, all octaves, all frequencies on the continuum of Life are joyously broadcasting, as one, " I AM HERE NOW "
i don't know. i may have gotten a little carried away But those were my thoughts. Let me know if anything i wrote makes sense to you. or not.
- Light, Love, Compassion -