Frank's Monthly Summary

During the first 4 weeks of practice I began to like wh, and the structure of a short meditation and writing at least a sentence in the morning and in the evening. The writing helps ensure accountability to myself. Often I extend the five minute mediation I am doing early in the day. Wh seems to me to have a deep inner meaning that I don't completely get yet, but this inner meaning can be actualized in many different ways. I have been finding out about some of those ways through my own experimentation and also through the inspiration of my fellow WOKers. There are many doorways into this Truth from the daily life, I am convinced of that. Wh is the perfect signpost, i.e. one that always points you in the right direction, no matter where you are.

So what is it that I am or more correctly that we are (non-)doing? Maybe it is simply "Perfection perfecting itself perfectly." (This was said by a Taoist.) Indeed on some of those days I have a sense that "All is well." besides my actual limitations in many ways. So this actually "all well" includes all my errors and misdeeds. If I collapse time by experiencing all of the events, conventionally good and bad ones simultaneously, then there is a seeing that in this ballet of living, in this totality, things are OK. Without having made errors the truth wouldn't be clearly seen. So why worry about an error too much. At those moments I find it plausible that a sage can be completely fearless and free. I am a beginner and my practice is not very strong. But these glimpses at least make it plausible to me that even in the presence of deep suffering more spiritually practiced beings can be free. Sages like HH 16th Karmapa, Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta Maharaj all died of excruciatingly painful cancers, but taught their disciples til the last minute without complaints, being concerned only about their students' well being, and being nothing then but a source of peace and love. Wh on the deathbed? That'll be the ultimate 5 minute practice, but why not? It might be difficult to send a summary of that to the WOK group later on though.