I’ve been seeing lately how conditioning wants me to hold on to (or beat me up for not holding on to) teachings and insights.

Some insight will drop in or I’ll hear something inspiring or helpful from a recording, a tweet, or workshop. Then, conditioning says I need to hold on to that, it’s important that I don’t forget it, and when I do forget it there’s obviously something lacking in me. I was looking at this recently and what dropped in as a practice would be to do the opposite of what I’m told by conditioning for a day.

So for one day, I cleared out my recorder and let go of any practice other than what came in that day, which was

• Practice Everywhere Tweets
• Daily Peace Quote
• The daily Big Bamboozle assignment
• Reflective Listening Buddies call
• My commitment to record and listen my intentions for the day and my acknowledgements and gratitudes at the end of the day.

So rather than be in a conversation about what’s wrong with me that I am not absorbing each teaching and insight and taking my practice to the “next level,” I got to turn my attention (and Life) to participate in every tweet, sit with the Daily Peace Quote, do the RL assignment for the Big Bamboozle, record and listen to my RLB call, and keep my daily R/L commitments.

And what I got to experience was being here, rather than attending to a story of how I should be.

Gassho.

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