What’s Next?

I spent a large amount of last year reading a vast amount from sutras, to commentaries, to common spiritual books, to the Bible, and to Krishna Consciousness. In the last year, I also wanted to develop skills in meditation, and that practically turned into “chanting” which some may consider to be a form of meditation, although not what I originally had in mind. The blessing out of this, was that I learned how to dedicate a large amount of my natural state to thinking about spiritual lessons and/or chanting.

Thinking about my time at the monastery, I would like to practice in my basic fundamentals of mindfulness, not from overly dwelling upon the scripture, the stories, or from chanting, but to experience life for as happy as I choose it to be. Less reading, and less chanting, but more concentrated mindfulness.

I’ll be taking just a few lines from sutras to guide me, particularly from “Chanting from the Heart” (Thich Nhat Hanh), and to take my mindfulness to the best it can be.