08.45
Monasterio Nuestra Senora De Los Angeles (Monjas Dominicas), Sant Cugat, Spain.
Rising at 06.30.
Morning sitting at 07.15.
Breakfast at 08.00.
Silence visited during breakfast & brought with it some seeings & connectings: a contribution to The Book Of Craft, a development of Frolicsome Symmetry, seeing ongoing repercussions from behaviour & activities of 30 years ago.
Hernan has called in to say goodbye: he is returning home to respond to family necessities. More food for the rest of us, then, and instructions that Hernan’s dessert be left on the top table.
09.51 Assimilation: intentionally taking in what is necessary for us, from our environment & surroundings, that our lives might be & become all that we wish them to be: healthy & satisfying for ourselves, useful & productive for our family, friends & society.
This includes paying attention to sensory information – listening, watching, touching, smelling & tasting – all of which provide nutrition, of different kinds & qualities, including the air that we breathe.
Discrimination is necessary: not everything that is available to us supports the life to which we aspire.
Initiative is necessary: that is, we apply our creative intelligence, to seek out & move towards who & what can teach us, to provide help & support for us in achieving our aim.
We cultivate an enquiring mind.
11.12 Guitar meeting at 10.00 addressing C symmetrical, including the 10-note version of what is, conventionally, an octotonic scale.
11.44 Hernan left 15 minutes ago. Several of the Team waved him off, to make sure he was actually leaving & not merely playing a trick on us.
Ordering The Day.
We begin our day with definition, clarity, certainty.
When our feet hit the floor, we salute the day and say Hello God! (whatever God may be for us).
Before we end the day, before we say Goodnight God! (whatever God may be for us) and our head hits the pillow, we move our attention backwards through the day, recapitulating the day’s events & our living of the day. We are digesting our experience that our experience may better nourish us.
We may find periods of time that elude us, escaping our efforts to retrieve lost moments where our life is hiding from us.
Where were we? Clearly, we were not there; we were not present; we were not, properly, alive.
So, how to increase our remembering, recollection, recall?
One recommendation is to place signposts on the hour. These provide additional points of definition, clarity & certainty that, when we look backwards through the day, we find a series of connecting moments waiting for us.
And, before our head hits the pillow, with definition, clarity & certainty, we put part of our attention forward to when our feet hit the floor and we begin our day, again.
This completes the circle.
12.55 Personal fun-practising, with twisty turns of grooving symmetry.
13.26 A gentle lunch. The Guitar Team practising the symmetrical scale are, reportedly, reliable into two octaves: they achieved this once before lunch.
We are reliably meeting at 16.30.
17.25 Meeting with the four playing members of The LCG for the April tour of Spain at 15.00 to address arising & frolicsome Variations On The Theme Of Symmetry, Part One.
Tea at 16.00
Guitar Meeting in the ballroom (16.30) with the House. Reliability is not quite the word that springs to mind for circulating in the C symmetrical scale, although there were aspects of the presentation that were unchanging.
A return visit to The LCG4 to touch base with developing variations.
Diariser’s desk…
20.33 T’ai chi at 18.15.
At dinner The LCG4 presented the first draft of A Fearful Symmetry, Part One.
21.55 Meeting at 21.00 to present an exercise for the morning sitting, for those who have established a basic relaxation practice.
A brief meeting with The LCG5.
"Welcome the unexpected, but not the arbitrary."
