Wednesday, April 22, 2009

request

shoot~ i meant to post this in the last post, but i guess its becoming its own...

i'm thinking of switching blog sites. i like blogspot okay i guess, but thinking the wordpress scene is a little cleaner and more i dunno just tighter or somethin'. or typepad...just feelin' a change might be nice, even though this is DEF easy n stuff.

if any of you reading this has an opinion or feedback on that idea, please hit me up here with a comment or shout at me directly. thx!!!

post vipassana, april 2009

...another one of those posts that i don't really know where to begin. i'll attempt to be systematic, to get as much as i can out, as succinctly as possible, while remaining true to my usual attempts at undercover quips & vernacular.
sunrise easter sunday morning, first morning of "noble chatter",
north fork, CA


recapping my first vipassana course is in order. my experience with 10 days of noble silence was a remarkable one. the irony of the noble silence part, at least ironic in the face of quieting the mind, is that it gets HELLA rowdy right before the quiet. like, the darkest hour of the night is right before dawn type of deal. so while i was working towards that peace, i was cracking myself up whenever i could. seriously. it was intense, hard work. like they said at the meditation course, set in north fork, california, a town which consider themselves to be the EXACT center of california, we were performing the deepest surgery possible on our minds, to purify them. whew!

the results, in general, have so far brought me a sort of calm to my daily life. and when i say "calm", i mean, i got to keep all the "regular" parts of who i am. i don't know how i may have been under the impression that those may disappear. nonetheless, i got to dig deep and scroll thru many scenarios in my mind, both past and future, which eventually led me to a present that was quite dynamic.

needless to say, i'd love to do the vipassana course again someday, and i'm grateful for the insight that motivated me to go in the first place.

and go figure, i came out with a vengeance! okay, not REALLY, but i did decide to drive to yosemite the day after we broke our noble silence. my first trip there FINALLY after living in california for nearly 14 years. and go figure, i proceeded to get my first speeding ticket in over FIVE years INSIDE this epic national park. as frustrating and annoying as it was to break that seal after so long, i laugh at THAT irony too. i mean, who comes out of a 10 day meditation course to get a SPEEDING TICKET thru yosemite? i do =) at least i got the money shot!


i have more to say...lots more...its continuing to percolate, brewing something i'm still not quite sure of, and the best part is i'm okay with that more than i ever have been. stay tuned! and if you've read this far, and been kind enough to nudge me a reminder to update here, thx for the patience, and sorry to say that my attempt at brevity may be back at north fork. after all, i've been saving it all up to spill here, and wasn't sure when i would. thought it would have been sooner than this, especially since i fantasized DAILY about making a "TOP 25 SONGS I WANT TO HEAR FIRST IMMEDIATELY AFTER VIPASSANA" list. maybe i'll still get to that...honorable mention, which surprised me too, was juice newton's queen of hearts, posted here for your entertainment XOXOXOXOXOXO