May 13th, Sushi Ichiban. 7:30 pm. Todd's farewell dinner.
Hope to see you there.
Tonight was the last Monday night training. Sayonara. Ogenki de...
For May and June we are now Thursday nights and Saturday mornings.
July and August training day and time is now established: Thursdays from 6- 9 pm. Keith and Nathan will take care of things for July while I'm away.
No other training days for those months except our Summer Seminar.
Finished a seven session course on Jodo with kids from the Waldorf school. One of them wrote about how Jodo made her think differently.
Her thought elicited my own recurring thought and I'm grateful that being engaged by other people brings about our own memories of significance.
My thought was this: training always humbles me. It humbles me because no one kata is ever performed identically the same, nor is it ever perfectly
executed. There is always an infinite combination of kata performances and an infinite amount of finite imperfection in training which reminds me
of our existence. I find great humility and joy in this: something about the striving in and of itself as the goal. To simply strive, and whyle away in this
striving, without seeking completion. Actually, seeking completion in savouring striving. Being content with the ongoing yet finite nature of being
human, as it is expressed in the unfettered and silent (sometimes) environment of training. I told Nathan and Keith tonight that as long as the rent gets
paid I will always be happy to show up for training.
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