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ave you ever felt pure joy, when nothing happens? 😉
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Did you do DN? [badge]Yes[/badge]
How long did you do nothing today? [badge]1h 30min / per 1h and 30min[/badge]
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After lunch headed into a direction walking. Was first cycling to a place to have a Chicken Döner (pre-doing nothing, a warm up) and then started on foot to fill an hour around Bergmannkiez. At night on my way back into Kreuzberg after a feast I stopped the car at the old airfield Tempelhof and walked around there for half an hour around midnight without getting in – but I got underground eventually…
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Big streets with people are full of distractions, even through one of the basic reasons in the old days for „se flaner“ was to be seen, it is a bit too much of a purpose in DN. Especially beautiful encounters with the other gender are throwing things over all to easily. Watching a child play was more of are revelation. The little girl just needed a stone wall or a handrail and was happy crawling around on it or „riding“ up and down. Watching children how they play reveals a lot about DN.
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That I am stiff and an “adult” in my cloud of important things and that I am lightyears away from the lighthearted play of a child. I want to regain that. At night it worked, somehow…
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Superb. Even though I doubt in between that something is happening, just the focus on DN and really trying it is shifting things.
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With NT today in the 2nd check-in: “Process of switching / from pseudo-activity to non-activity / the incapability to do nothing gets apostrophied as work-moral festooned with pseudo-high value / a disability gets elevated to be moral value / a hard school, putting in practice in everyday life / in a Zen monastery it is incomparably easier / no objects of observation and distracting recognition / mulling over things / the mind has spasms narrowing it down, like the eyes of somebody who is shortsighted / the spasm of thinking / holiday from thinking / from doing “. Great. It does work differently for him, but it does.
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BEFORE: Good. Tired and I do not know why. My day felt like too much crammed in. Time management was a challenge for the first time in these 7 days. I did not know if I should buy some Sushi for a gathering in the evening or bake a cake. Walking and giving it space without „solving“ it strengthened the adventure of baking a cake, even though it was not enough time and I needed to buy some extra ingredients and a mixer before. Simple things can be difficult.
WHILE: Good. Too many people at Bergmannkiez. Watching a child play. Just herself. She chose a wall and was riding an imagined horse there, like the knights of the coconut. Some older boys were playing football in the back – which was all too purposeful. She then asked for being away longer or out of sight and went to a big playground where I was sitting outside. When I passed by, she was balancing on the handrail and steps leading to it, not using any of the big playground facilities but stopped at the entrance and played there, even though no other child was in sight. I found that remarkable.
AFTER: tired, but excited. need to sleep.
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Day / of Words, books and the blue sky / lingering in the heating, warming sunshine / Sushi or not / Gugelhupf or not / this is here the question / no fear in front of an empty sheet of paper / watch how children play / flurring layer of hot air, two thumbs thick, wobbling, over the textile hard-top of a red convertible / unplaying / she was using the handrail which leads to the playground, but not the empty playground itself…/ children can play anywhere /
Night / hard edged moon / a fence grown over / lights and lamp-posts grown over / my intuition led me to a spot where I found a an entrance, well tried to open an entrance to the underground and it worked / a iron staircase into the earth beneath Tempelhof / I went down / an small bay, an island where trains pass by / nobody saw me / the air pressed forward by the trains / a great lighting, blue from front and yellow from the right / without DN I would have never been here / felt like a child in Stephen King ́s „IT“ / Thank you, DN /
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Did you do DN? [badge]Yes[/badge]
How long did you do nothing today? [badge]10min / per 1min[/badge]
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Sitting in the park, the Japanese garden, listening to the birds, to the murmuring of the spring… Lying on the beach, watching ships, clouds and the reflections of the sun in the water…
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Doing nothing is NOT doing nothing…
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It seems that I try to escape from all obligations, even from the self-imposed… I think i have to work / cooperate with and listen to my subconsciousness instead of pushing it… DN needs a lot of training and obviously I can apply the physical training-principles ..
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Very bad feelings about the fact that I fail in such a trivial task….
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