Q6-19840920-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-buddhas_ancient_med_path_a_modern_challenge_part_ii-1516 Leandra Tej

Talk: 19840920-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-buddhas_ancient_med_path_a_modern_challenge_part_ii-1516 Leandra Tejedor Start_time: 17:09 Display_question: How do balance the need to recharge and bringing this into our daily life? Keyword_search: recharge, Boston, contemplative, sitting, daily life, meditation, Barre Question_content: Questioner: Seems a bit difficult, you know, living in the real world and all, to bring a lot of these things indefinitely on… going on? It seems to me that at times you need some refuge, some… time to recharge and regroup. Larry: Absolutely. Questioner: I think that an hour driving in traffic in Boston, it can take care of a lot of… intense… meditation. I feel like there's a need somewhat, to be able to recharge, and maybe have both the idea of having….going… getting away from it all, and yet bringing it back to your daily life. Larry: Maybe we can end on that note because I think I've, in my zeal, have conveyed a bit of a distortion. I mean, I agree with you totally. Personally, I go away, for periods of time, ranging from days, to weeks to months, and then I come back. And for me it's not special. It's just the way I live. Going into, let's say, serene contemplative environments, and coming right out. I don't consider it more valuable, than being in Harvard Square, or less valuable. And it's almost like a balance between sleepiness and wakefulness. I know my balance, and I keep learning it as I go. It's not fixed. I've learned that there's a danger. I have to be really careful in trying to teach this. Break_line: For example, if I emphasize how you can do it in daily life, and that the sitting posture isn’t, shouldn’t be taken to be synonymous with meditation, then some people will hear it a certain way, and misuse it, to justify never sitting. In other words, oh, great, I don't have to do all that sitting. I don't like it anyway. My knees hurt. In other words, they'll misuse what I'm saying, and then it goes the other way. If you emphasize the sitting, all it's called for is, more sitting, or keep pointing out how valuable extended sitting is, which it is. Then people will say then people disregard daily life. So, it's a little bit maddening to try to in my own life, I feel I don't even want to use the word, integrated. That implies they're two separate things struggling. Break_line: It's just… I'm expressing the same attempt to learn, and to grow, and to be aware whether I'm at Barre, or whether I'm here. In many ways it's easier at Barre, than here. And that's a feature of that environment. And I think probably not knowing most of you in this room, you would benefit from periods of time where you dropped everything, whether it be a weekend, or a day, or a few hours, or even a month, when you're ready for it. And just… be with yourself, in a contemplative meditative setting, in whatever religious, or non-religious environment. And of course, you come back. And particularly if that hasn't been used, to discredit daily life. You come back with new freshness and sensitivity. And so, it's a rhythm of back and forth, and back and forth. And that's how I live. I find it very fulfilling. End_time: 20:35