DAY SIXTEEN: Duthanga List

Kipsey Mipsey's List of Duthanga

Current

• Smoking
• Waking Early
• Physical Manifestations of Emotions
• Practice & Blog

New

• Renouncing Vanity: Mirrors Trendy Clothes, Accessories Male Acquistional Attention Female Gravitational Attention
• Renunciation: Cut down on sweet, dark drinks: coffee, tea, hot chocolate
• Renunciation: Cut down on skin sensuous things: laying on rugs fluffy, fuzzy towels scarves sheets soaps
• Total Paycheck Dispersion - Only $200 in bank at any time after First Dash
• Give away everything you don't need
• Keep cultivating Generosity & Kindness - even if only in safe and non-threatening places at first
• Proper Conduct in Speech
• Be early or on time - EVERYWHERE
• Puja, or at least taking your precepts every day
• Start doing Full-Day Weekend Practices and all-night sittings

Not Duthanga - Just Goals

• Be Nice to Anh Hien's family, and take care to read and teach
• READ!
• Check out the Vihara in Queens
• Get ready for the long retreat you want to do in at least two years from now. Prepare in practice and in finances.

That's quite enough. Practice Till Perfect. Repeat.

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Ten Duthanga Disciplines:

5 Cutting <>

5 Growing<>

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Not new duthanga practices, just addenda.

To #6: Be Generous with Time, Energy and Persynal Space. Discovered I am very stingy about sharing my time and persynal energy in interacting with people -- even those whom i love. Esp. those whom I love. When i am cranky that they called, that they want me to hang out, or when people at the office want to make small chat.

To #8: Let go of what you're in. Especially if you Can, if it's Appropriate, or if it's All Done. I find myself attached to what I'm doing - whether pleasant or unpleasant. Unless it's extremely unpleasant, like running on the treadmill. Otherwise, very hard to leave where you are. Neurotic Attachment to Time Maximization. Almost like, You're already here and doing it; might as well make it worth it. Worth it meaning either Completely Done and Satisfactory, like a chore, or Worth It, like I was having a nice sensual experience - having a cup of hot chocolate on the window seat with my throw like a Lands' End photoshoot - and it needs to end The Right Way. Need to let go of ideas of THe Right Way. The Beautiful Way. The Way that belongs in E.M.Forster or George Eliot.