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So, what have I been up to?
Work is interesting lately: we have a stability problem in a design, and it's a tough nut to crack: after three solid weeks of five people working on it, we're beginning to see glimpses of the underlying cause, but we haven't solved it yet. Working on this stacks with my project management work, so I'm a busy raven these days.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
soul_diaspora is still working there on contract, so it's good to see her during the days occasionally. Having today off, I figured it would be a good time for an update!
The social life has been pretty good, between various games (including last night's poker game with assorted cow-orkers) and various get-togethers and chats with good and close friends. (More on that in a later post, perhaps.)
Aikido is a long, slow business. A more senior student asked me recently how my aikido is coming along and I answered, "I don't know; I come, I practice, I come, I practice."1 I'm really not the person to judge how good my own technique is. Subjectively, I feel much as I have for quite some time: I can do the movements, but there is so much to work on in the subtleties that I can almost never get it all right at once. There's always something that my mind, which is watching as I practice, points out as being out of alignment, or disconnected, or unbalanced, or lacking focus, or, or, or...
This weekend is pretty open right now; I'll likely be up for some social things; I might even host games on Monday if there's interest.
1: The more senior student laughed and said that she should do that more, so I guess I'm doing at least that much right.
Work is interesting lately: we have a stability problem in a design, and it's a tough nut to crack: after three solid weeks of five people working on it, we're beginning to see glimpses of the underlying cause, but we haven't solved it yet. Working on this stacks with my project management work, so I'm a busy raven these days.
soul_diaspora is still working there on contract, so it's good to see her during the days occasionally. Having today off, I figured it would be a good time for an update!The social life has been pretty good, between various games (including last night's poker game with assorted cow-orkers) and various get-togethers and chats with good and close friends. (More on that in a later post, perhaps.)
Aikido is a long, slow business. A more senior student asked me recently how my aikido is coming along and I answered, "I don't know; I come, I practice, I come, I practice."1 I'm really not the person to judge how good my own technique is. Subjectively, I feel much as I have for quite some time: I can do the movements, but there is so much to work on in the subtleties that I can almost never get it all right at once. There's always something that my mind, which is watching as I practice, points out as being out of alignment, or disconnected, or unbalanced, or lacking focus, or, or, or...
This weekend is pretty open right now; I'll likely be up for some social things; I might even host games on Monday if there's interest.
1: The more senior student laughed and said that she should do that more, so I guess I'm doing at least that much right.
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Not sure I agree - or maybe I'm just misunderstanding again - with the idea that no mind and universal mind are the same. Perhaps you could expound?
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The mind that's open to everything focuses on nothing; it isn't here or there, but is like the Tao (perhaps it even becomes the Tao!). Enzan-no-mitsuke, "looking at the distant mountains," is a manifestation of this, in my experience. Perhaps the term fudoshin, "unfettered mind," expresses this best.