11:20am: I may have been too optimistic about the one-hour meditation sittings with no moving. It’s more like a one hour pain endurance test. We were asked to observe sensations today and to take all of the sensations—both pain and pleasure—and merely observe the sensations without a reaction of craving or aversion. Really? So as there is intense pain shooting up my legs and pulsating through my butt and then up my spine, I am expected to merely observe this and go “Gee, there is a sensation of knifing pain in my knee…now what other sensations are there?” Not a whole lot of other ones besides the pain actually!
5:26pm: During part of this afternoon’s four hours of marathon meditation I actually starred in my very own karate movie…it doesn’t even matter that I don’t know karate (the Kenpo videos in P90x are about as close as I have come); I was doing some fancy-schmancy moves that even Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee would have been proud of! But then I had to end the mental film because we are not allowed to do mental visualizations – only breath and sensations…blah, blah, blah.
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