Logging Off

Hey Y'all,

Just wanted to give you a heads-up that I'll be offline for the next 10 days.

Tomorrow, I'm due to start a 10-day Vipassana meditation course in Dehradun. Vipassana is basically 10 days of sweet F.A. No drinking, smoking, talking, communicating, touching, reading, writing or blogging for 10 days.

I've had a few people (travellers and locals) recommend the Vipassana course, and I have to say, I'm rather intrigued by the paradox of doing nothing to achieve something. And even though it sounds pretty easy, they tell me it's tough. Really tough. Apparently quite a few starters bail within in the first few days. But I think I'll be ok. 6 months of commuting from Wollongong to North Sydney seems like a pretty solid warm up in the fine art of sitting on my ass and staring blankly.

This will be my daily timetable from tomorrow until the 03 Aug:

4:00 am		Morning wake-up bell
4:30-6:30 am		Meditate in the hall or in your room
6:30-8:00 am		Breakfast break
8:00-9:00 am		Group meditation in the hall
9:00-11:00 am		Meditate in the hall or in your room according to the teacher's instructions
11:00-12:00 noon		Lunch break
12noon-1:00 pm		Rest and interviews with the teacher
1:00-2:30 pm		Meditate in the hall or in your room
2:30-3:30 pm		Group meditation in the hall
3:30-5:00 pm		Meditate in the hall or in your own room according to the teacher's instructions
5:00-6:00 pm		Tea break
6:00-7:00 pm		Group meditation in the hall
7:00-8:15 pm		Teacher's Discourse in the hall
8:15-9:00 pm		Group meditation in the hall
9:00-9:30 pm		Question time in the hall
9:30 pm		Retire to your own room--Lights out

There is just one small problem, I'm not in Dehradun. I'm actually in Chandigarh and I haven't left myself a lot of time to get there. Even though the first stay starts late, if I miss tomorrow's 4:30am bus out of town, I probably won't make it.

So, my dear readers, I promise I shall return to you soon (very soon if I miss the bus), and hopefully as a more enlightened, self-aware PJ.