This is probably really dumb, who cares about TV habits, but I’ll share it anyway. <\/p>\n
My TV died. Oh, the cost to replace!! Suddenly, it dawned on me I was without a mode of entertainment. I noticed my agitation over the hole in my routine. My normal way of ‘passing time<\/em>‘ in the evening was to be carried along by the changing programs; the news and flickering images, and my favorite shows where familiar characters are placed in different situations each week, and so on. But now I was faced with an oncoming blank in that routine for an indeterminate time, until replacement. What would I do to fill the empty hole?<\/p>\n TSK exercise 16 came to mind. Rather than worry about an imagined future crowd-up with worries, I let them be ‘space<\/em>‘. That opened the future. Suddenly, everything was light, even buoyant. I seemed centered in the present, and noticing all the things around me I’d been ignoring; the green leaves turned yellow, waving and dropping from the trees, but they were space too. The field beyond of old corn who’s contours seemed to undulate — more space. There was no grabbing at anything. It occurred to me the current situation called for investigation into the purchase of a new TV. The idea didn’t seem to come from an ego wanting, but from the situation, like noticing you are hungry, and so you eat. That night I read a book. No TV<\/em> wasn’t so bad. The next day I went out and ordered the TV that I researched. It will take a week to get. Meanwhile, I’ll keep practicing exercise 16. :-) This is probably really dumb, who cares about TV habits, but I’ll share it anyway. My TV died. Oh, the cost to replace!! Suddenly, it dawned on me I was without a mode of entertainment. I noticed my agitation over … Continue reading
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