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April 08, 2023 A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 96 excerpt)

Story 96 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

My teacher in India eventually attracted so many students that
he began to appoint assistants to lead retreats on their own.
I began assisting him in 1996 and soon was made a senior
assistant teacher. I led ten-day retreats throughout Canada,
the United States, England, Myanmar, and India. I especially
enjoyed addressing the many issues my students faced, most
of whom were dealing with the daily shock of seeing into the
skittishness of their minds for the first time. I was on a mission
to spread the teachings, I had status and prestige within the
community of meditators, and my personal practice was
strong. How my life had changed!...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
5 minutes 54 seconds

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6min
April 05, 2023 A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 95 excerpt)

Story 95 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

Doing non-doing is a long path and is not always
straightforward. To understand what you need to do and
why and how is relatively easy, and in this regard I hope this
little book has been a help. However, old habit patterns,
especially latent tendencies, are pernicious. You may continue
to be sidetracked by their beguiling beckoning to react. You
may succumb from time to time. You may find the process
hopeless. You may get frustrated. These reactions are also old
habit patterns. It is as if you are at a masked ball, dancing with
many different partners, all of whom keep exchanging their
masks with each other. Still, do not give up. Have faith....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
5 minutes 54 seconds

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6min
April 01, 2023 A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 94 excerpt)

Story 94 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

With the death of a loved one, a grieving period is important, as
is understanding how the mind works and how doing nothing
with clear comprehension does not eliminate the grief. Once
again, grieving is a natural condition of the mind. It is neither
good nor bad. Some may be tempted to put on a happy face
to demonstrate the powers of meditation. They can keep up
the façade for a while. In time the effort to remain calm peters
out. The suppressed grief returns in a myriad of ways later in
life, when perhaps you cannot see a direct correlation between
what you are presently dealing with and the death of someone
close some months or even years before....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
3 minutes 30 seconds

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4min
March 29, 2023 A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 93 excerpt)

Story 93 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

According to Thoreau, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet
desperation.” I think when people read this, they focus on the
word “quiet” as the problematic one in the sentence. Echoing
Pascal, quiet isn't the problem, it is the inability to accept the
quiet that leads to the desperation. We don't need to change
our environs as much as change ourselves, because as Anaïs
Nin wrote, “We see things not as they are, but as we are.”...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
3 minutes 10 seconds

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4min
March 25, 2023 A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 92 excerpt)

Story 92 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

In the center of Igatpuri village is a street market. Vendors sit
at stalls and sell their produce. Because every vendor sits in
the same location, everyone knows what they sell. So all they
need announce is the price. They don’t try to out shout one
another. They take turns. This creates a sort of chant, a back
and forth. Except for the Hindi, it’s a revival meeting in rural
Alabama. At the main corner of the market are the banana
sellers. First time there, I thought “do rupee” was the Hindi
word for banana....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
2 minutes 56 seconds

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3min
March 22, 2023 A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 91 excerpt)

Story 91 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

We needn't pause to figure out our next step in life. Life,
real life, is there in the pause, in the quagmire of conflicting
choices. We then choose one route and look for signs that this
is the correct way to go. No doubt. “I have a good feeling
about this” is more a sense of relief about finally choosing one
route than a certainty that this route has been swept clean and
is devoid of IEDs. Even the best choices cough up hairballs of
unforeseen consequences.

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
4 minutes 04 seconds

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5min
March 18, 2023 A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 90 excerpt)

Story 90 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

Most everyone is possessed by their possessions. I know people
who are owned by their pets. I know others who build heated
garages for their prized automobiles. My aunt bequeathed
me an old rocking chair to which she added the caveat that
I never change its mauve covering. In those years, I moved
almost every year and carried that rocker to each apartment
until its springs went and you couldn't sit in it without
receiving a full rectal examination. And if you think about it
almost everyone carries within themselves their own version
of the mauve rocker,...

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
4 minutes 32 seconds

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5min
March 15, 2023 A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 89 excerpt)

Story 89 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

I remember a Sayadaw (respected teacher) who lived in a
remote monastery in upper Burma in the vicinity of Sagaing
Hills. He was elderly and blind and very much loved. I visited
him, excited to both meet a living legend and pay my respects.
I was told to wait until he went for his evening walk when he
would be with his attendant who could serve as a translator....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
5 minutes 43 seconds

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6min
March 11, 2023 A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 88 excerpt)

Story 88 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

I volunteered with Mother Theresa at her Sisters of Charity
palliative care hostel in Calcutta. My service was to help with
the lunch meal as well as a certain undefined “nursing.” The
hostel was smaller than I had expected and the number of
volunteers fewer than I had hoped. I thought a larger cohort
would allow me a few days to get my bearings. That was not
to be the case....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
5 minutes 09 seconds

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6min
March 08, 2023 A Lifetime Doing Nothing (Story 87 excerpt)

Story 87 from 'A Lifetime Doing Nothing' by Ian McCrorie
.

Two more salient points about mettā. Mettā must be tempered
by wisdom. There is a parable from India of a kind man who
came upon a frog in the middle of a busy road. Concerned that
the frog might be crushed under the wheels of a bullock cart
and feeling uncomfortable leaving him to his fate, he gently
picked him up and transferred him safely to the side of the
road from whence he had come....

narrated by Ian McCrorie
2023
3 minutes 32 seconds

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4min

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