#1 - 0:as far as me, i'm in EE / PCE territory for maybe 60% of the day. It still depends a lot what I do; some situations still lend themselves more easily to it than others. One cool thing I've found though, is that with the advent of my realizations about fulfillment, work has gotten much easier and more enjoyable - i don't resent being there anymore, or wish i was somewhere else, or anything of the sort. i just enjoy the handling of the food, the cleaning, etc, the interaction with my coworkers. it's all good.
This is interesting. After experientially understanding the importance of sincerity, everything is getting easier for me too. However, if I am 100% honest, I have a lot of work to do. One challenge in particular is the one of enjoying (quantitatively and qualitatively)
any moment of being alive. That is: I feel that I have a lot of mindless times when everything just
is and not precisely being enjoyed. For example, at work, I remember to be attentive occasionally and have glimpses of enjoyment but most of the time I don't experience this pleasant affective tone. Perhaps I can exemplify quoting Peter:
At times I missed them and their excitement but I could not deny that everyday life was getting better all the time, and I came to see that these experiences too would have to go. I would often feel a frustration and missing in the beginning and was wary of returning to a stark normalness. At one point all did seem stark in a ‘normal’ world stripped of feelings, meaning and excitement but that soon passed. I just figured that what I wanted was to be actually free of malice and sorrow in the world-as-it-is, with people as they are, as this flesh and blood body only – if that meant what often felt like crossing a desert, being bored, or losing excitement, then so be it. It became obvious that when the dust settled only that which is actual would be left and, as such, my attention and focus became increasingly on that which is actual – that which is sensately experienced as opposed to that which is merely cerebral or affective.
I don't know if I'm noticing the desert because of the constant raising of the bar. So, this could be a natural phase in progress where I'm (with this healthy obsession of getting rid of "me") constantly comparing the peak experience with the normal one, but I have to ask if you have any tips to expand that enjoyment in potency and duration, even while in traditionally boring or annoying times like working, cleaning the apartment, etc.
Cheers!
Felipe