Mind how you go...
Mar. 23rd, 2010 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
f4f3The meditation class seems to be going well. I'm still not entirely comfortable with meditating in a room full of people (nice as they seem to be) but I may be getting used to it. Tonight's session introduced metta bhavana, and focuses on developing loving kindness - sort of active empathy. I think it can see how it works. We were given traditional forms of words to use, but encouraged to use our own, or to find a visualisation which worked for us. For me that tends to work as thinking of flows of energy, which I sometimes see as light and sometimes as water.
I like the venue - the Glasgow Buddhist Centre is on Sauchiehall Street, one of the busiest party streets in town, and the centre is one floor up, above the ironically or appropriately named Kama Sutra restaurant. It's close enough for me to cycle in 10 minutes, so I did, and enjoyed stretching my legs. There's two routes there - a circuitous one through the park, and a direct one on some busy roads. When it gets lighter, I'll probably start using the park route, but for the moment I'm sticking to the road, and surprising myself with how well I'm managing the traffic. When I started cycling again last year I was pretty nervous about cycling on the road, but that seems to have worn off.
I guess I'm very much tapering off at work now, since I finish a week from tomorrow. There will probably be more on this (and it will probably be f-locked, since it's about work) but for the moment I'm thinking that I can't wait until I finish. I may be tempted to stand up in a meeting, say, "Gentlemen, I am too old and too rich to put up with this shit" and walk out, but I won't, for three reasons. 1) I'm not old. 2) I'm not rich. And most importantly, 3) I'm not the incomparable William Goldman.
I like the venue - the Glasgow Buddhist Centre is on Sauchiehall Street, one of the busiest party streets in town, and the centre is one floor up, above the ironically or appropriately named Kama Sutra restaurant. It's close enough for me to cycle in 10 minutes, so I did, and enjoyed stretching my legs. There's two routes there - a circuitous one through the park, and a direct one on some busy roads. When it gets lighter, I'll probably start using the park route, but for the moment I'm sticking to the road, and surprising myself with how well I'm managing the traffic. When I started cycling again last year I was pretty nervous about cycling on the road, but that seems to have worn off.
I guess I'm very much tapering off at work now, since I finish a week from tomorrow. There will probably be more on this (and it will probably be f-locked, since it's about work) but for the moment I'm thinking that I can't wait until I finish. I may be tempted to stand up in a meeting, say, "Gentlemen, I am too old and too rich to put up with this shit" and walk out, but I won't, for three reasons. 1) I'm not old. 2) I'm not rich. And most importantly, 3) I'm not the incomparable William Goldman.
