Present

I got this audiobook the other day called Ah This by.....I'd have to go upstairs to get it.  Basically about Zen etc.

It's got 8 'chapters'.  I have gotten thru chapter one only!  I fell semi-asleep listening to it this morning.  I dreamt I was in a meditation group/room and this guy was lecturing on esoterical stuff.  I had my eyes closed in the dream, and occasionally I was see other things, like a dog, and then thought of taking more photos as I was looking at people's faces in photos (I wonder who they were, and I know I was trying to figure them out in the dream.  There was a few women), then I was sitting on a log with someone else, trying to pay attention to the speaker, occasionally thinking what he was saying was interesting, falling off the log.  I got out of that room/area when he stopped for a moment.  But in another room a woman was continuing the lecture.  So I had to close my eyes and sit again.  I wandered thru a forest.  After a while she stopped talking for a moment, and I started to clap, but she started talking again.  I thought oh, she's not finished, but I really need to stop......  I finally realized and woke!  After 2 hours I was still in chapter 1.  This is going to be long.

What I got that was interesting at the beginning as he talked about that Zen is like the present. You can define the past in time, you can define the future in time, but you can not define present in a timeline.  The present is present and that's what Zen is.  Yes, this is my exsplaining of what I heard.

Also he said that a Master/teacher can not give you the truth.  They can teach you what they know, but they can't give you the truth as you have to find your own enlightenment and truth.

There was another thought about how we all are dying from birth.  That we all are in like caves.  And like Jesus calling out Lazeris from his grave - Jesus didn't go into the grave/cave, he called him out - we are being called out to enlightenment.  Ok there's a lot in that one to discuss and disagree with, but the thought of it is interesting to think on.

After that, I'm not interested in reading today.

We are still playing with the security camera's and feeling better about them.  

Oh wait....I remember something about ABOUT actually being AROUND  The Zen guy was saying that went we talk ABOUT something, we are actually talking AROUND it.  If we talk about God, we actually talk around God.  I don't really remember the whole thought on that, must of been during that dream state.

AJ is continuing to feel better.  So glad.

I got my new tablet so I can play Candy Crush again.  Worse thing - I was at level 720 and now I have to start again.  They didn't transfer over my levels on my games.... that sucks.

Went to Sarnia for AJ's MRI tonight.  Was a good drive.  Will see in about 7-10 days what the results are. 

What a busy week....whew.  Glad tomorrow is sleep in day!