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My Schedule

  • David Smith
  • Oct 18, 2017
  • 2 min read

I found this note that I wrote way back in 1976. 

I was proposing that I meditate 9 1/2 hours a day?  Actually the schedule sounds just right. Except I still have not done it. 

We know that 3am is a standard in both Zen Buddhism and as Amrit Vela in Sikhism so that is correct. So 3am to 9am is correct and matchs Kirpal Singh's advice. 

Also 4pm to 7:30 while being supperless sounds correct because supper is ruled out if you are doing 3am to 9am. 

My poem says:


My busy materialistic and nonmaterialistic life. In the morning I plug in at the third eye. Then my "I" has to vaporize while my Soul recharges. It is said that time is a factor. To get to the timeless, you need pretty much unlimited time. Faced with six hours 3am to 9am, the mind pretty much accepts as unlimited time. Sleep is way overrated. Six hours is usually enough. Sleep is the little sister of death and one day of life is a microcosm of a human life. As goes one day so goes the life. And each day may be the last. How does one give their best to that which is their highest priority and likewise their worst to their lowest priorities? In the end one has to create their own religion. Ravi Dass has said it takes six months to unite but only one day to fall down. Sawan Singh has said if you sit and meditate for three hours you will leave the body. DS Poem July 22, 2014 Mystic Poem 

Comically, I write that I will also write counterpoint in the style of Palestrina. That just reflects the fact that I was in Music School at the time. 

4pm sounds ok for a second sitting as you are approaching sunset. 

I had Meditated for six hours a day so I was scheduled to double that:  going to 12 a day is currently not possible so I decided on going with all the time Simran as a compromise:

I think relevant to this idea is Patanjali quotes:

32. There is a area of the throat supporting locked in position.

There should also never be a time when you can't meditate. 


 
 
 

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