Iam still around, Gang ..

.. but not much to say really. So, i’ll just leave a short note on what i’ve been upto recently. The flavor of the season is “vipassana meditation”. When you try to understand the rationale behind this form of meditation, you will inevitably come across at least the basics of Buddhist philosophy. Two books have really helped me understand the underlying philosophy, and a bit of the technique itself so that i can get started on my own before i learn it more formally — “Mindfulness in plain english“, by Henepola Gunaratana ; “Vipassana meditation as taught of S.N.Goenka” by William Hart. Iam very impressed by the Buddhist philosophy, because of its conciseness and as its intensely logical nature. But, as its often said, there’s only so much use reading “swimology”. For the actual swimming, iam devoting couple of hours per day for now. I definitely plan to make this a permanent fixture on the daily menu, rather than passing flavor of the season.