I love mornings because they are times I feel most at peace with the world. Then the day starts up and often the day just takes control of me according to specifics I seem to have no control over.
If I am staying 'on course' with my practice that sense of peace I have in the morning stays with me throughout the day. But sometimes there are stretches of days where that doesn't happen. Does that mean my practice is 'off course?"
Today the word that I keyed into while musing about this was 'control'. I think its important. When we get comfortable in our practice we can start feeling like we're in control or something.
Life is like sitting. To practice just means to keep coming back... It doesn't mean to be in control.
Just the same, I think I'm going to incorporate another stretch of sitting into my day if I can...
And yeah. I totally admit it. I wrote this post because I feel a day of 'monkey mind' coming on.
UPDATE: The zazen helped.
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