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Just got back from going down to Charleston to pick up our Dharma Center teacher and bring him and his niece up here for tonight's teaching. That's 4 hours of interstate truck tag, but having a Tibetan monk meditating in the back seat for part of the trip made me approach it all more calmly, I must say.
So did the lovely lunch on the porch of the house where they live in Charleston, and the very excellent Tibetan food. Stir--fried broccoli, stir-fried daikon, both with little bits of meat and wonderful spices--cardamom in one, I think, and sprinkled with Tibetan pepper (forgot to let them know they could go really spicy for my palate--won't forget next time). Mostly they were arguing in Tibetan, but it was fun to hear the rhythms of the language. And a short thunderstorm watered the flowers while we sat there, followed by steamy sun. Which I love.
Completely unrelated: I was thinking about one of my favorite hexagrams from the I Ching the other day as a good comment on my life at that moment, and then had the added thought of using these as a way to give some shape to my daily entries here. I may stop this very soon, but if it annoys you in the meantime, feel free to skip. This is not the favorite one ("Work on What Has Been Spoiled") but the throw for today:
40 Hsieh: Deliverance
Cheng, the arousing, thunder is over Kan, the abysmal, water.
Here the movement goes out of the sphere of danger. The obstacle has been removed, the difficulties are being resolved. Deliverance is not yet achieved; it is just in its beginning, and the hexagram represents its various stages.
The rest is at http://oaks.nvg.org/yhe.html#40
In an optimistic mood, I wish I could read this politically. But that's wishful thinking. It's good for my life, though--this is a period of great change (leaving a job after 28 years, leaving the world of work and all that entails) and I'm just beginning to feel the possibility of adjustment. I'm learning to set my own routines of work and rest, but more than that, learning a new identity that's not who I was at work. But I definitely am not there yet--just sort of getting the idea of where I want to go.
Also works well for my microlife this week--the weeds and the unpacking are not yet conquered, but I'm getting an idea of how to go about it all...
So did the lovely lunch on the porch of the house where they live in Charleston, and the very excellent Tibetan food. Stir--fried broccoli, stir-fried daikon, both with little bits of meat and wonderful spices--cardamom in one, I think, and sprinkled with Tibetan pepper (forgot to let them know they could go really spicy for my palate--won't forget next time). Mostly they were arguing in Tibetan, but it was fun to hear the rhythms of the language. And a short thunderstorm watered the flowers while we sat there, followed by steamy sun. Which I love.
Completely unrelated: I was thinking about one of my favorite hexagrams from the I Ching the other day as a good comment on my life at that moment, and then had the added thought of using these as a way to give some shape to my daily entries here. I may stop this very soon, but if it annoys you in the meantime, feel free to skip. This is not the favorite one ("Work on What Has Been Spoiled") but the throw for today:
40 Hsieh: Deliverance
Cheng, the arousing, thunder is over Kan, the abysmal, water.
Here the movement goes out of the sphere of danger. The obstacle has been removed, the difficulties are being resolved. Deliverance is not yet achieved; it is just in its beginning, and the hexagram represents its various stages.
The rest is at http://oaks.nvg.org/yhe.html#40
In an optimistic mood, I wish I could read this politically. But that's wishful thinking. It's good for my life, though--this is a period of great change (leaving a job after 28 years, leaving the world of work and all that entails) and I'm just beginning to feel the possibility of adjustment. I'm learning to set my own routines of work and rest, but more than that, learning a new identity that's not who I was at work. But I definitely am not there yet--just sort of getting the idea of where I want to go.
Also works well for my microlife this week--the weeds and the unpacking are not yet conquered, but I'm getting an idea of how to go about it all...
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