John Wilde:
1) Awakening to reality: emphasis on clear discernment of whatever arises in this moment.
2) Appreciating this moment: emphasis on appreciative immersion in whatever's happening.
3) Seeding the future: emphasis on abandoning causes of affliction and cultivating causes of happiness.
Snapshot of 1 as of today:
- Warmup 3x10 breaths
- Mindfulness established, choicelessly attending to whatever arises.
- Bodily sensations quite smooth but finely tingly, made of tiny effervescences.
- Discernment must be pretty poor because I find the following very hard to describe.
- Throbs and blobs of hard-to-describe 'stuff'... rising up against background of stable clarity.
- Throbbing, shimmering, pulsing
something -- composed partly of image/light and partly of feeling/sensation.
- Cloaks of ignorance, arising, obscuring, moving around, going away, against background of stability and clarity.
- There's a rhythm to it all, or rather, several rhythms... not synchronised but not chaotic either.
- Sense the potential for this to be really annoying and frustrating, but not today.
- Can feel the mind framing and re-framing, trying to find the right, best, true perspective. (Again, could easily be frustrating on other occasions but not today).
- Overall affective tone: general well-being, equanimity, wry amusement.
- Mindfulness pretty strong, feel I could keep it up indefinitely.
- Don't particularly want to, but only mild aversion to the thought.
- Alternating between, hmmm, interesting... and "is that all? is this how it stays?"