Clairvision:ATE 002

Adapted from my journal

03 August 2008

The workshop was super great. I mostly enjoyed meeting Brett and listening to 美亜's translations. I learned some new words: 南北, and いしき (I think). I could have sorted out the meaning of Namboku had I really looked at the kanji, but I had never used the train line (until today) (Mia used the word when she was basically trying to describe longitude and latitude lines (the grid of Earth lines)). Ishiki means conscious / consciousness. That word was used about a million times during the weekend, and Mia translated it the same way each time.

Doing the meditations was equally great; seeing Helma and Brett's interaction was great; doing the eye contact exercises was great. I'm looking forward to a new infusion of energy into our weekly ongoing meditation meetings.

After the workshop, Mia, Brett, Helma, and I hung out at Tea Time near 後楽園 and chat chat chatted for a long time. I was surprised at how much effort had gone into making the workshop a reality. Could I do all that?

I think for now I'll just stick with painting and meditating and takin' care of my own biznass.

A man named Yoda spoke pretty good English; he's been doing Buddhist meditation stuff for some 10 years or so. Robert is from Poland, and has lived in Japan for a while; he asked lots of questions, which was great when others seemed too shy to ask. Kumi and Tenko were the last to leave each day; I imagine I'll be seeing them at the ongoing meditation group. I chatted with Kumi more than with Tenko, and even gave her my URL after I mentioned I had my journal online. I barely spoke with Tenko, but I hope her kanji is 天子 and that she and Kumi will both join the meditation group and ISIS intensive in October.

But I mostly mostly wish 亜美 could have been there. I realllllllllly want to do this type of work with my partner.