Diary

1. event 19/09/2022 technical peparation learning the room and house

2. event 26/09/2022 technical error

3. event 03/10/2022 my recordings

• So here I am. A very good idea I will write a diary?
• So don’t think that the way I came in here, I immediately sat in full lotus position for more than 1 hour. No one is expected to do this, you can even meditate on a chair, the main thing is to try to keep your spine straight.
• I haven’t sat in zazen for about 20 years, if you count the few times I sat in Memorial Park in Ashford. This is not zazen, sitting alone without others is very difficult. In fact, it is much more difficult to break away even in my room, where our everyday objects attract our attention and attract our entire habitus. Sitting in the park among dog shit is not an uplifting experience either.
• For the meditation in the park, I also had to organize the delivery of cushion (zafu) and blanket. I had so much stuff that I could barely fit it on my bike on my luggage rack.
• The good thing about this room is that there is a storage room where I can put my things. It’s worth it for this reason alone to be able to come here. Here I can keep the zabuton, the zafu and some supplies. This room is very suitable for sitting zazen with several people.
• Since this is the first day when I start practicing again, first I just sit in Turkish sitting and warm up my joints, I bend forwards, backwards and sideways.
• As I mentioned above, I don’t expect to be sitting in a full-lotus right away. I gave myself a month or two to get back into it on a weekly basis.
• I can already sit like I did 20 years ago, I just have to find the right way to sit.
• Whoever comes comes, whoever doesn’t come doesn’t come. It would be good if you could register yourself. So how do I know how many of you came? Since you have to register here, it’s good if I know who will be visiting regularly?
• Now the environment outside and the room has quieted down, the running groups are over for today. So now I am in this pleasant room for 60 people, if only because of its size.
• This is a very good thing.
• Well, I might add the rest, but this is a very interesting description of how I got started today.
• Now lets change legs.
• For this reason alone, it is worth coming here for a little tournament.
• My glutes, hamstrings.
• I’m warming up a bit.
• I put on shorts under the kimono.
• This allows the skin to stick to the skin, because it doesn’t slip, because last time I came, I tried the practice in socks and long pants.
• Last time, the material slipped on the material and I learned from experience how clumsy I am, but I only had to take the socks off.
• It’s not even half a Lotus, but it’s already a result for me today.
• Here in the room, I do movements for which there is not enough space or other zafu  at home.
• It is important that it is such a personalized zafu that keeps my hips at the right height/position.
• And then I adjust to that height.
• Even now, I’m saying that I might not be sitting well.
• Because it’s true that I’m sitting on the cushion, but the zabuton is relatively high, so I have to put  zafu on  zabuton.
• Yes, let’s say I put a third of the pillow on the zabuton.
• And my position is well enough.
• If my left leg is down, my right leg is on my thigh.
• I lean back and forth on the zafu to find my balance. My left leg is on my right thigh and I swing myself like that.
• I’m going to put a relaxing exercise like this on the page, a rust-removal exercise, a body-oiling exercise.
• If you want to meditate, it is good if you do the oiling exercises every few days. According to my philosophy, the body often changes, so what was good one day may not be the same the next day. You have to experience this rhythm yourself, including the general rules that neither eating heavily nor drinking stimulating drinks before meditation, they are  not healthy.
• Here is the video about the correct seat. Everyone can find explanations that appeal to them, for me this video explains the correct sitting. What seems difficult to outsiders is a comfortable seat for the practitioner, where the legs do not go numb and we get an extremely stable seat.
• One of the biggest problems in meditation: how to sit properly?

• The zazen posture: method and precautions

event 10/10/2022 cancelled due of a twomonthly meeting

event 17/10/2022 I brought the Buddha statue into the room today, you can see it on the opening page.

I practiced the prostrations, the symbolism of which is that we bow to the earth, the sky and between the two, as well as to the Buddha. In practice, prostration is a good warm-up for sitting because it relaxes the muscles required for sitting.

I started sending invitation letters to the organizations in the area so that their members and relatives can attend the meetings for free. You can participate after registration, which can be done at each event.