Well, my computer has been down for, I don't know, maybe 2 or 3 weeks. I've got over 500 emails from MoQ.org. I know I've been concentrating and alert without these 500 emails with 1000's of words streaming across. So, did I practice, and did thoughts naturally occur, sure. Did I have the chance to socially share my thoughts with MOQ.org participants, well, obviously no. I may go back and respond to some of the emails directed towards me, or maybe I'll skim through all of them, but will that change anything that will change how I practice. I found out recently that meditation and zazen are different. Meditation is an event in which somebody is focused upon something. Zazen is sitting that involves awareness and alertness. Zazen is attention. So, while I'm meditating I'm attentive, thus, performing zazen, but in zazen it is attention, simple. Zazen is not attention upon something in a steady practice upon a mantra in meditation for example. Zazen is attention - plain and simple. I'm focused while I take care of the residents, and wash dishes. I practice keeping attention while I sit. Alert is the event. It is do. Do, do, do, practice, practice, practice. trees, SA
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