Practice

"It's very important to distinguish between a practice and a task. You can succeed or fail at a task. This is a practice, you can’t fail at it, you just keep doing it. That's why we call it practice. It’s not about success and failure." ~ Ken McLeod

This resonates given my relationship with Buddhism and baseball.

Carrying Mail Today

I'm off to carry mail today. Last night loaded up four podcasts from over at Hardcore Zen to listen to in the car today. While they were downloading I spent a good half-hour reading posts at Natural Awareness Blog. This post stuck with me through the night and has been on my mind this morning.

It's title: "Final Words of D.T. Suzuki"

His final words were: "Don't worry. Thank you! Thank you!"

Revisiting George Draffan Interview

Lately I've felt the need to go back and read some of the early Derrick Jensen interviews, and this morning I finally did it. The first one I had in mind was with George Draffan. This excerpt jumped out at me: "As civilization arose, power began to become centralized, as it is in the second face. The powerful created a discourse — later divided into disciplines such as religion, philosophy, science, and economics — that rationalized and institutionalized injustice. After ten thousand years, we all to some extent believe that these differentials in power are inevitable."--George Draffan