Blogging this from a Bangkok cybercafe, having arrived from the meditation centre yesterday. What can I say? Wow….
This course was tougher than the first one last year. I took a lot of frustration and anger that had built up during the MBA, and it took me fully five days to clear that away. I was also incredibly tired after the exms, and the 4am starts didn’t really allow me the chance to recover, so maintaining concentration was pretty tough – especially in the sfternoon sessions when the heat of the Thai summer built up! Despite that, I made some real breakthroughs in my meditation technique, and I feel totally refreshed and invigorated – and more determined to maintain meditatition in my daily routine. All week, I had intense bad dreams, meaning that deep-rooted sankaras were rising up; many other people on the course had the same experience, I discovered later.
It was also great on the last day of the course to talk to my fellow meditators. Some were really incredible people, with fascinating life stories, and it was a pleasure to meet them.
Anyway, tonight it’s back to Singapore, and on with things. I have so much to do before I fly to Beijing on Thursday night… I checked my exam results online last night, and they were OK: mostly As. As expected. I just scraped through MBO, but a pass is a pass, so I’m happy. I did better than I expected in MA, so that was a pleasant surprise! The quantitative subjects are all out of the way now, which is a relief; the courses I’ll be taking in Beijing are all qulitative, so I don’t have any big worries.
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