Fall and Winter are typically the season for this, but I’ve noticed more people than usual have taken up interest in what amount to gyms. These very, very expensive gyms, which market themselves as almost exceptional in how they can help you regain yourself. All the while these “miracle body regimes” are advertised everywhere. Suspicious industry much?
Some neighbors of mine were headed there. I remember this because they were about to get into their vehicle, and I asked “the location is right around the corner, you don’t want to walk and maybe save transport money” and they responded “no, we’re old, we can’t do that” before they rode there and gained entry so they can run on the machine, and returned having used their whole wallet due to the journey/destination. Though not as memorable as the fact they came back with a brand of potato chips with the same name as the place they went to. Nothing like feeding into what you’re there to fix.
How about you though?
I did zen training involving koans. At an abstract level, koans are a practice of trying repeatedly in the face of thousands of failures, without getting impatient. It’s the mental equivalent of Lucy’s punch-through-the-sign training in Kill Bill.
Try try try ten thousand years nonstop. That’s the mindset it takes to make progress with koans, and in the process break some of the mind’s longest-held assumptions.
Ever since I spent some years doing that, I love extremely hard video games. I don’t mind trying dozens or hundreds of times before I pass a level.