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Breakthrough meditation

8:27am JST Saturday 21 March 2009 (day 14241)

I'm using the word "breakthrough" because my journal entries are sorted by name, and B is early in ye olde alphabet.

And because I had a nice breakthrough during this morning's meditation.

Basically, it used to be that my brain would wander and then I would "snap back to reality" of being 'here' sitting, practicing meditation, and having noticed that my thoughts had wandered.

But today was a little different. After about 12 minutes of normal soporific meditation practice, I suddenly reached a state with a bit of wakefulness over-riding everything. Like a little connection that was keeping me interested and awake.

I suddenly knew that I would be able to maintain this for some time, and that the alarm on my timer (must meditate for at least 15 minutes, rain or shine, sleepy or not).. that the timer would go off in a moment and perhaps break the connection. So I fixed the feeling in my mind, and opened my eyes for a bit to turn off the countdown timer, and turn *on* the stopwatch. The coundown timer had 2 minutes 20 seconds remaining.

My mind wandered perhaps as frequently as before, but this time, when I came back to mindful awareness of my meditation practice, there was no shock. Like a part of me had been connected to a timelessness the whole time, and the thoughts which had distracted my mind were simply a brief distraction, but not enough to completely envelop my consciousness.

So each time my focus came back to the meditation, the transition felt gentle. I had been here the entire time. Just my brain had got distracted for a bit, but now it was back.

- - - -

I started seriously considering a weekly meditation circle at ELF on Tuesday nights. 7 to 8pm, with meditation practice for 5 minutes, then 10 minutes, then 20 minutes and 10 minutes then 5 minutes, or perhaps 5, 10, 20, and 20 minutes again. Or just freestyle timing as the group prefers.

I will talk to Helma about it in OZ; I basically want to get permission from her, as my meditation / ISIS / third eye awareness teacher.

As I chose to finish the meditation, I gently came back to full waking consciousness. Checked the stopwatch to find 28 minutes had passed. (So add that to 13+ and get 40 minute meditation without much effort.)

Nice.

Comment system

8:45am JST Saturday 21 March 2009 (day 14241)

In one of my mental excursions, I also had an insight on how to rewrite my journal to include comments, and where and how the journal code should be written.

Written in

robnugen.com/journal/index.php

it will take successive parts of the URL

robnugen.com/journal/2009/03/21/Comment_system

as parameters to decide what to display.

8:49am JST

To that end, I'll make the path in

<div class="js-kit-comments" path="/journal/2009/03/21/Comment_system"
permalink="http://robnugen.com/journal.pl?type=all&date=2009/03/21#Comment_system"></div>

include /journal so that it's the actual path after the domain robnugen.com

ELF

1:44pm JST Saturday 21 March 2009 (day 14241)

Chillin' at ELF in Tachikawa with Mark, and have been showing him how to set up a notlong.com thing, Avast!, a facebook account, and supergenpass, etc.

argh .htaccess

12:49am JST Sunday 22 March 2009 (day 14242)

Argh. I tried a buncha variants to get just a little rewriteRule working for my journal, but nothin' wanted to do the right thing. Nor the rewrite thing. Argh.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^alice.html$   bob.html
# RewriteRule ^test.html(.*)$      /journal/index.php?date=$1&type=$2
# RewriteRule   ^/journal/(\d\d)/([^/])     /$1
# RewriteRule   ^/journal/index.php?type=([^&]+)&date=(.*)    /u/$1/$2  [R]
# RewriteRule   ^/~([^/]+)/?(.*)    /u/$1/$2  [R]

The first one above works, but none of the rest do, even when they're not commented out.