Tuesday, September 9 Communication nonproductivity

Post 1272, Day 252 of 2014
- 1,348 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

I am not the most mindful person.

(I was seriously thinking of stopping right there today, but let the bloviating commence).

I should really copy a string of Facebook messages, my band's preferred method of group communication. I think there would be little of real interest, but it is a perfect example of why this type of communications doesn't work. 

Then I tried to come up with an alternative, and couldn't. I am reasonably strong on organizing, but I have no authority to do that with this group - nobody in the group does! Someone always gets frustrated and says, "Whatever."

And the last one to get involved in the communications is always the one who can't go along with the proposed plan. Usually, about a day after the plan has been finalized.

Digital communications cater to the need for immediacy, but relies, therefore, on everyone being connected. Always, and that doesn't work for everybody. 

Or, actually, anybody, I think.

So, I'm in this situation where my group participation, which typically has no business operating in the digital realm except to share practice files, means keeping my internet connections open.

Usually with the phone, more recently, during the workday, with my iPad.

Nothing seems to get better because of this.

And, just as I prepare to put this comment to bed, I find the following quote in a Buddhism Now article on meditation:

"You cannot change the past, arrange the future to suit yourself, or make other people say and do the things you want them to say and do. All of your power is contained within this moment, related to this particular body and mind."

Here's a link to the whole article, which contains a lot of good stuff. A lot. http://buddhismnow.com/2013/07/05/first-steps-buddhist-meditation/

How succinct, how clear, and how... correct(?). Can I say that this resonates with me totally, and I think if I did nothing else but spend time fully understanding and working on embodying this, how much suffering I might avoid? 

I should see.

But I'm really not the most mindful person.

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 Food and Diet Section

2014 Daily Weight

Today's Weight:          210.2 lbs

Previous Weight:         210.2 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:       - 0.0 lbs
            
Diet Comment

Last night's pizza and wine: Ok, no weight lost. None gained, though. Small victory, that, at the cost of an all-day sour stomach.

Food Log 

Breakfast
Skipped.

Lunch
A cocoa-hemp-kale protein shake (almond-coconut milk, kefir, kale, large organic egg, whey powder (24g protein), hemp seeds, hemp protein (7g protein), raw organic cacao powder, chia gel, celery, moringa leaf powder, cinnamon and stevia-inulin blend.

Dinner

Skipped.

Liquid Intake

   Coffee:  28 oz.   Water: 64+ oz. 

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