Practice where you actually are. Understand you will have to adjust your expectations to match your likely conditions, quickly and openly to maintain the relaxed and awake quality of being. It's good to practice in relatively novel spaces.

www.ssimc.org for online meditation class info.

It has been a busy spring, this longish episode does some catching up! Its not a riddle! Not a puzzle! Sometimes a question but without a logical, linear sort of answer. The more you wisely practice, the more you wake uP.

rss link to the newish Now, Dhammapada podcast mentioned

Keywords: paradox, mindfulness, breath, body, koan, view

Practice in your car. No waiting. No shopping. For real, all the sounds and sights and barks are a part of the mindfulness.

*** For my new Dhammapada centric podcast Now, Dhammapada (mentioned at the end of this episode) try here:

awakewax.substack.com

Soon, you should be able to find it on your favorite podcatcher ***

The object of light. Photons. Object with which you make contact. Collect your attention, bring it back to the light. Artificial or natural. Work with the available visibly changing. Yes, blink! Energizing...

Keywords: Change, meditaton, mindfulness, blink, shadow