Journal
Field notes on sitting and return
Short pieces from the work: minutes that empty, greetings after absence, and the weather of a first week in a Malaysian evening.
These notes come out of readings and from sitting in George Town. They are not product advice. They are attempts to keep language close to the sit.
Reading a week of sits without turning people into numbers
Anonymised session notes are still people’s evenings. The work is to keep the minutes specific and to refuse a ranking that would make a funeral week look like a failure.
Bells, voice, and the closing silence
The last thirty seconds of a sit are a room of their own. A bell that arrives too soon, or a voice that cannot stop blessing, can empty a practice that was otherwise held.
First sits after work in Malaysian heat
A new practitioner opening an app at dusk in Johor or Penang is not the same person the store page described at breakfast in a temperate city.
Streaks and the guilt of a missed morning
A number that was meant to keep a sit alive can become the reason a person does not open the app after a funeral week or a night of rain.
Why people leave a body scan at minute four
In many guided scans the leaving is not at the end. It is in the first naming of the hands, when the room is still hot and the day has not left the body.