Have been jumping back and forth between different worlds the past several weeks, too busy to ponder the craziness of it all. This goes way back into last month – several days of extra work, then flash, 10 days with Liu Jing Ru Laoshi here in Tokyo.
I had really wanted to get over to Beijing again before his Tokyo visit but it was impossible. Then here he was in Tokyo. Suddenly work was on a very distant back burner.
He returned to Beijing and I to work – for a few days. All day every day, and extra work each night. Then one morning I went directly from work to gasshuku, a couple days off in the semi-countryside with nothing to do but practice and drink. Gee, what a fate. Rode the last train back one night, took an early train to work the next morning, 3 hours with another group, another company.
12:00 noon, finish work. 12:08, on the subway on the way to the airport to pick up a visiting parental unit. And taking care of her every day until the day after tomorrow.
Except I did cast aside my filial duties for a special class last night. And an all-day Chen taiji thing today, building well on recent Chen work…Filial duties resumed as soon as Chen ended, now a few moments to myself at night.
And so on, back and forth between vastly different worlds. A return to the normal routine lies somewhere on the horizon a few days later.
1 comment:
Truly this is an odd feeling to have, it lets one appreciate the "mu" that should accompany every experience. Ideally we could meditate on the happenings of our lives and ring it out to the fullest extent, and yet these aspirations are constantly curbed by "more". Less indeed. With ONE task we can use our ONE mind. Simple equation that evens out smoother than dividing our attention. I really sympathize with this post.
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