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Living an Ordinary Life

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For me, this is where the discomfort starts to set in. With no deviation from the school and activities schedule until at least June, and no vacation on the horizon, I start to get antsy, when I feel like I’ve personally hit a plateau. Over a decade into my mediation practice, I’ve at least developed an awareness of this: my extreme distaste for when it feels like nothing is happening in my life. When there’s momentum, forward movement, growth – I’m good. But the second that starts to slow, I get that itchy allergic reaction.

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Nothing Special

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What made it special was that the ordinary sounds were being experienced in an extraordinary way – with deep equanimity. In other words, I was simply being with the sounds exactly as they were; Free from expectations – I didn’t need the sounds to be special, unusual, or in any way different than they were.  Free from comparison – I wasn’t comparing them to sounds I’d heard in the past, or an idea of how I thought they should be. There was no good or bad, right or wrong, better or worse, ordinary or extraordinary. Free from ego – I didn’t make it about ‘me’ or an identity as ‘artist’ or ‘musician’. And free from control – I simply let the sounds come and go without resistance.

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