Centring...
Jul. 19th, 2003 08:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fajrdrakoFrom Daily Zen:
What is your center, i.e. what is the one thing you can always come back to that will get you focused, calm, thinking clearly, etc. This can be anything. It could be a book, an action (meditation), talking to someone, etc.
There is nothing that will always do it. But under normal circumstances:
(1) Reading any of the Dorothy Dunnett books about Lymond
(2) Doing yoga
(3) Walking
What is your center, i.e. what is the one thing you can always come back to that will get you focused, calm, thinking clearly, etc. This can be anything. It could be a book, an action (meditation), talking to someone, etc.
There is nothing that will always do it. But under normal circumstances:
(1) Reading any of the Dorothy Dunnett books about Lymond
(2) Doing yoga
(3) Walking
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Date: 2003-07-19 05:49 am (UTC)The Lymond Chronicles do the same thing for me, with certain scenes acting like mantras when I return to them: Jerott and Lymond in the armoury at Tripoli, or most of Pawn in Frankincense but especially the horse-riding display on Djerba. Oh, did I ever mention how very, very shiny I find Jerott?
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Date: 2003-07-19 09:54 am (UTC)Yes. Isn't it amazing what a few words can evoke? I sometimes recite parts of the Lymond chronicles at bus stops: favourite bits....
Jerott and Lymond in the armoury at Tripoli
Wonderful scene! Some of the most exciting suspense I know and it still works after umpteen readings
did I ever mention how very, very shiny I find Jerott?
That's more than fair: Lymond finds Jerott shiny too, I think.