is to just close your eyes for a moment and take one deep breath in and then let it out again, slowly, as if you were a cow standing in the middle of the very best field in the whole world, with your hooves sunk into the softest, moistest, greenest high spring grass you can imagine, and your wet snout snuffling the dewy verdancy of the meadowgrowth all around you, it smells sweet and good and of the best of all things, a bright day before you after the winter, all the long dark winter in the confines of the barn, now you're out and under a kind warm blue sky, you think about taking a bite of the blades, and as you bite, you feel a complete acceptance, of everything that you were, everything you are, and everything you will go on to be from this moment, for all of your future moments, flow through you, a bone-deep, heart-deep acceptance, a complete giving-in, to everything that you are. it's all good. you are you, and that is exactly good and right and enough, and always will be
(, Thu 28 May 2026, 23:23, archived)
i now have reached the 4th jhāna
(, Thu 28 May 2026, 23:36, archived)
(, Fri 29 May 2026, 2:46, archived)
Shopping list:
Mekong Giant Catfish
Asian Redtail Catfish
Siamese Carp
Barramundi
(, Fri 29 May 2026, 2:55, archived)
but something is puzzling you
another monk ambles past, leaning towards you then away. a regular sway. their heavy breath, sweet with the meadows, filling the air about you, their feet knocking gently on the flagstones of the cloister as they depart
(, Fri 29 May 2026, 0:11, archived)
you try to stop the next monk who passes. you know it's forbidden to talk to the monks, but you have to. please, you say. please, I need - the monk pauses, looks at you with their deep, reflective eyes. Mmmmmmmmm, says the monk. lowers their head again, sways off. oh thank you, you say. yes I see. but the monk has moved away now, not listening to you
(, Fri 29 May 2026, 0:14, archived)