also taking a break at seibu
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jumping ton and tai drinks the apple juice
jumping ton and tai drinks the apple juice
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Had dim sum lunch with Tai-kun and the Cheapy family, then played around in Roppongi Hills for a bit.
jiji ton baba mo
jiji ton baba mo
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Came home from the zazen retreat and went to a nice Japanese fish dinner with the family. Stomach was not too happy to be back, apparently. Think I was just way of kilter and I need to get back on a human schedule.
3 days of boring
3 days of boring
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This was my home for the past 3 days -- this miserable little cushion. It is harder than it looks, and I mean that in both ways; it is difficult to sit on the damn thing and not just get up, put on my shoes, and go home. And it is filled with some combination of cotton batting and lead pellets or something.
Good things about doing a zen retreat at Tokei-in:
- Brad is as always simultaneously amusing, insightful, and goofy
- The food is surprisingly excellent, thanks to Kitamura-san
- Big tiled bathtub
- Goddamn spiders in the goddamn toilet
- Old tatami make me sneeze
- Zazen is boring. Boring. BORING.
I find that my legs aren't really the problem. After prolonged sitting, it is my lower back and shoulder blades that are sore. Not sure if that means I am doing it correctly and am out of shape, or I am sitting badly...or both?
Anyway my interest is, um, peaked, and so I will see if I can get setup with Patrick come January. No idea how it will go, but like Yoda says: "Do, or do not. There is no try."
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