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Did you do DN? [badge]Yes[/badge]
How long did you do nothing today? [badge]1h / per 1h[/badge]
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Went out for a flaneur´s walk, with a female company, telling her firstly what DN is about and making it a joint experience. Got locked in a cemetery.
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To do it as a couple, different gender works, if initiated properly (told about the project, the ideas behind it and the effects so far) – so being a part of it would not get taken lightheartedly but valued). Rules were clear and the additional person was supposed to make decisions for the path of both, either as an individual choice or in choice given by the other, like people (a park with groups of people) or death (a cemetary)…death was chosen.
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That there is trust for others to share my individual and intimate experience with DN and not disturb it but add to it. Was fun and cheered me up a lot.
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Good. It takes shape, slowly, I can make it happen in between on call, broadening my vision and let go of control over the thoughts, but let them happen, without concentrating too much. It is a sharp tool, DN…
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BEFORE: A little bit dazed and confused. Lulled into Sunday. Needed to get out. Start of „Brackets“ [ ] was really a stimulator and cheerful event. Changed my mood within 15min. And got me happy and excited after one hour.
WHILE: Very good. The company did not distract and nothing of substance got talked about. Unless, – one question I let through and pondered about was a heavy one and would solve some things, but I did not anticipate it and went with it for 5min. „What would you regret most if you would know that you just have one day more to live?“. Found a deep rooted answer to this, but it took a while and honesty with myself. / Having to climb out of the cemetery because the closed the gates. Big fun.
AFTER: Excited and calm. Centered again, which was not the case beforehand.
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Did you do DN? [badge]Yes[/badge]
How long did you do nothing today? [badge]30min / per 30min[/badge]
Answers NT
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Strolling around in Setagaya Park, a beautiful japanese garden near “Hohe Warte”, looking into the waters of the little pond where Kois in all colours serenely are floating by, watching me while i am watching them – i am able to release my inner tension.. I smell different odors, watch the clouds in the sky, listen to the variety of sounds from the little cataract, opening my senses in that way lulls me, although i stay centered in the presence..
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I practice DN in different places, so it is easier for me… I want to stay centered and conscious while sleeping, this must be the ultimative challenge, by now i`m only able to retard the fall asleep – phase.. I enjoy the 5 minutes “No Mind” before drifting into unconscious sleep.
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I feel useless and pointless with my 1000 “normal” activities per day
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I`m planless, directionless, happy in the first moment, but then feeling like being dried out.. While DN i want to do something, while doing i want to do nothing… Who am i? A stranger in my own country…
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