4-03-2007 Day 3 Still no pooh! Drinking more water

I feel so peaceful today…I slept very well last night on that slab of concrete…this morning during yoga I watch the sun as it rose and illuminated the sky and the trees…it seemed different…like it was rehearsed…the increments of brightness were amazingly even and the birds song danced in unison with the rising light…

I think that I might be a chai tea man at burning man this year…maybe I can buy one of those ornate coffee urns that I have seen in the pictures of India…

I wonder how tough it would be to become a rabbi…

This routine isn’t so bad and waking up at 4am is much easier than it sounds…of course I’m sure that going to bed at 9:30am helps…I have been assigned the chore as palm fond gather…which means I get to meander through the coconut palms and pick up the palm fonds that have fallen…quite a nice chore…very pleasant walking among the palms…

…and without any hesitation at all…except 3 ½ days of waiting…after morning chores I finally pooped…solid and plenty of it…which made me very happy…I think it was the first solid poop since the beginning of February when I started taking the vaccinations for this trip…not too mention my bout with liquid ass in Cambodia…I was quite happy…and as ask by the nuns and monks I went into the stall with out toilet paper…

“…it’s not dirty…it comes from inside you…it is the food that your body didn’t use…just hold the little bucket of water at your lower back and gently tip…the water will know where to go…then use your middle three fingers…”

“…if everyone in Asia and India used toilet paper the world wouldn’t be any trees left in the world.”

…and so with my three middle fingers…I wiped my ass…and all I can say is…clean sweep!

…another interesting talk today from one of the nuns…as humans we have lots of training…personally I have had over 20 years of schooling…yet how much training in my 36 years have I had on how to be human…not much really…how much training do I have on how to use my mind…how the mind works…none at all until very recently…this doesn’t make sense to me…I guess that is why I’m here…I’m learning to be a human…teaching myself how to use my mind…keep control of my mind…a pure mind…a trust worthy mind…free from outside factors…mindfulness…the monks call this kind of mind a one point mind…not swayed by emotion…always aware and able to concentrate…through meditation the mind will settle and the power of one thought can be realised…

I have had three very peaceful sleeps on solid concrete and today I wiped my ass with my hand.

rest in peace

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