Hi

Hey there

Seems silly to be writing things in public, but somehow it makes it easier to write.  Almost like I'm talking to people.

Which is crazy considering how private I usually am.    :-)

My intention here is to use this as a slightly more in-depth way of keeping notes on my meditations.

I started meditating less than 40 days ago, so don't expect any startling insights or anything new and deeply wise.

I was doing what I call "nothing" meditations, where you just sit and allow thoughts until they get bored and go away.  Typical to me this is the hardest way to do it.    :-)  
It is also boring once they do get bored an go away, even though I'm only up to a half hour session (sort of).

So I'm going to be meditating on the Tao instead, as a focus.  I have a book which has older style script symbols for each chapter, so I'm going to draw the symbol (minus the phonetic, which I don't know how to pronounce anyway) and focus on that for my meditation.

I have three books on it right now, one with the symbol and a write up and two with poems.  I was told that it is best to compare across translations.

Today will be my first day.