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14 Mar 2021

Looking back (yesterday):

Continuous contemplation of materials leads to convolution:

 Yesterday, i visited a friend who recently bought a new house. Its quite a high priced home and they have furnished with expensive, beautiful new furniture. Such as plush new sofas, attractive wall decor and so on. I couldnt help but think how we could buy similar new furniture and make our home look beautiful. Our home is beautiful as it is right now and provides us happiness. I am trying to push out thoughts of imagining their or other new furniture in our home. If i dont mention this topic in the coming few days, hopefully i will have avoided continually thinking about these materialistic possessions.

 Be a sthitha prajna

An influential manager at office is working with me on a project. He tends to work over weekends and send e-mails regularly. I received a bunch of e-mails from him yesterday night prescribing how i should do my project. He was prescribing me to follow some book he had read. Then few other e-mails were complaining that I did not inform him about certain things, though i had and he had forgotten. I got quite affected by it and couldn't sleep. I distracted myself by watching TV for few minutes. Then i decided to tell him to take the lead and run the project if he wants it to be done as described in the book. I havent read the book. Atleast i will not be doing something that i dont believe in. It wont make him happy, but i will have been truthful and at peace.

Looking forward (today):

Gym for the brain - Meditation :

I am writing this post in the middle of the day, so i have already completed this. A goal i set for today was to meditate for atleast 15 minutes. I meditated for 16 minutes. I could focus only for couple of mins of that 16, but is a good start and hopefully i will get better by doing it everyday.

Balance the eat & sleep scale : 

Today we have a get-together at a friend's house. 4 families are coming and everyone will be bringing many types of food. I want to control my sense and not binge so much that it makes me dull. 

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