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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

Understanding the difference, the conditions of your practice, compared to not practicing with the podcast. Also very different than being in a class. Mindfulness of body, often is the place to begin and end, regardless of conditions. What to try, when you have too much energy or perhaps too little energy whist sitting. Awake AND relaxed. Not sleeping. Not hyper alert. Mindfuling...  

Practicing outside is different. Especially in the Fall. What is available, obvious? Work with it. Practice every day, not like this but like with what you really have going on. Sound meditation. Awake. Standing is wakeful. Keywords: Lite, Light, Dressed, Cold, Cool, Sound, 

Can you be mindful while walking the dog? What are you doing? Pretty complicated if you... are trying to do too much. Simplify and pay attention to your companion. Walking the dog is doing something very complicated compared to sitting and you are likely very connected to a very different sort of being with a very different set of interests! Amazing. Keywords: Canine, coffee, walk, nosey, tension, attention, mindfulness, woof

Prpacticing standing meditation outdoors is just awesome. Real and potentially confusing. Keeping it relatively still you will see a crazy mind, becalmed over time!  Even amidst a pandemic there is great flexibility being developed. Keywords: Insight, Presence, conditions, mindfulness, sound, heartmind

Picking blueberries mindfully and listening to someone pick blueberries in your space/time are very different activities... Keywords: Mindfulness, insight, outside, blueberry, cultivation, practice, relaxation, wakefulness, sweet

Listening outside, a lot to contact with the shifting weather. Sound is a type of contact and with a podcast we can share this slice but there is more... Keywords: ambient, rain, sound, feel, object, collecting attention, 

Practicing awareness of sound outside sitting on a bench. Sitting differently than you might usually sit, on a bench, matters. Working  with what actually is and focusing attention. Simple practice, but not easy...  

Cultivating ease and awareness from a relatively still body to a body in contact to a body investigating with the same sort or ease and awareness allows a peaceful seeing and perhaps knowing.  keywords: body, sound, field, bird, contact, movement, conditions and investigation