10.01.10

10.01.10 is the date (US-style) of when my book, Living As a River, is published by Sounds True. The date has a rather symmetrical loveliness.

I just got the MS back from my editor today, along with her suggested changes and with some lovely comments.

She said: “I have totally fallen in love with this book.”

She also said: “It has opened my heart and mind up in countless ways.”

These are nice things to hear.

3 Responses to “10.01.10”

1. bookbird says:

   December 31, 2009 at 1:30 am

   wonderful news!! congrats!

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2. Irisha says:

   January 2, 2010 at 3:06 am

   Hi Bodhipaksa,

   Heard your interview with Sami Timon on “Insights at the edge” and the image of a human being as a river – ever fluid and changing – resonated with me. It also appeals to me because of the perceived contradiction of something moving yet still.

   I belive you mentioned that you experienced this moment of things not being personal, the state of no-ego, just like that. While I can achieve a state say after hours of meditation, using the terminology of Integral Theory it is still a state rather than a stage, so I have to remind myself of that, rather than live it.

   However I can experience our fluid nature in situations (with the ego still there) where movement is involved, for example in (trance) dance and yoga, the flexible practices that reflect our level of energy rather than follow some predifined scenario (although it is possible to fall into those traps in both yoga and dance), when I listen and look into where the body is. Then I can feel the riverness of myself .

   Congratulations on the book and I really look forward to having it published in Europe.

   Palms together!

   Irisha

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3. bodhipaksa says:

   January 2, 2010 at 2:08 pm

   “Something moving yet still.” I like that phrase. I may borrow it!

   Having a sense of not having a self is now something that’s accessible any time I turn my attention to it, so I guess in Integral language that would be a stage. But the sense of not taking things personally is very much a state, and one that’s often conspicuous by its absence! I have to be “on my game” (rested, having meditated, etc) in order to let the idea of my children’s actions being personal fall away. But when it does it’s beautiful.

   Thanks for writing.

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