portrait 11/30/2010

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straight 8

...............................The list of supplements I'm taking every day adds up to about $480 a month. The first six directly address symptoms of Parkinsonism, although some of them have additional benefits; N-acetyl-L-cysteine promotes respiratory function; D3 helps with skin disorders; marijuana is an anti-depressant.

Co-enzyme Q10................200/mo

Glutathione.........................110

Homocystrol.........................15

NAC.......................................16

Vitamin D3............................13

Marijuana...............................50

Red yeast rice.......................16
(cholesterol control)

Nicotine patch........................60

This tells me that I need to work enough to come up with about $500 a month in additional income.

In addition to the supplements, I follow dietary requirements: a daily dose of carrot juice, fish three to five times a week, lots of turmeric and pinto beans. Then there's exercise -- usually the topic of this blog -- including exercise for the breath and the mind.

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sun

Monday, rained out, ugly.

Since then, warm with plenty of sunshine, and we're supposed to get more of the same 2day. Haven't missed a day on the bicycle.

You really don't expect weather like we've been having at this time of year.

No home practice today; thursday means yoga in greenwood in the pm. So morning and early afternoon will be devoted to house cleaning.

Better get started!

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rain

Nasty, rainy weather today. I started to go outside for a walk at one point, but didn't even get to the end of the walkway before turning back and coming inside.

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Where is the dividing line between the body and the mind? In examining cases of spontaneous remission of cancers and other diseases, Robert Anton Wilson points out that such phenomena only remain inexplicable as long as we reside under the sway of the mind-body dichotomy. This bafflement persists because of what Wilson calls "our habit of thinking that anything we have split verbally must reflect a similar Iron Curtain in the non-verbal existential world.* This is similar, he points out, to what's happened in the physical sciences, where post-Einstein scientists no longer deal with space and time, but space-time. Similar considerations led the Buddha to conclude, contrary to Hindu orthodoxy, that there is no immortal self housed within the mortal body-mind, that such a concept is "an illusion, a dream," and that a "self" (or human being) is a heap of undifferentiated characteristics.

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As I went through daily practice today I was mentally in the breath as it united with the physical process. Effortless mindfulness, free of distraction, can be learned along with learning the habit of not differentiating.

*Quantum Psychology, p. 134.

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