The Bucking Bronco

In my loneliness, when you're gone and I'm all by myself and I need your caress
I just think of you, and the thought of you holding me near
Makes my loneliness soon disappear.

I will wait for you... meditating!

Yep. Thanks.

Banking 616... while writing.

Technique and feeling! Extraordinary sensations.

My reference version! Simply incredible.

right ! (2 short entries with exits)

today i catched long wave in ws

The origin...
Layman Pang, a Buddhist in the Zen tradition who lived from 740–808, wrote the following:

My daily activities are not unusual,
I’m just naturally in harmony with them.
Grasping nothing, discarding nothing.
In every place there’s no hindrance, no conflict.
My supernatural power and marvellous activity:
Drawing water and chopping wood.

> The quote has been adapted and expanded to add a little more context:

The novice says to the master, ‘What does one do before enlightenment?’
‘Chop wood. Carry water,’ replies the master.
The novice asks, ‘What, then, does one do after enlightenment?’
‘Chop wood. Carry water.’

> I prefer to stay with the original version (and accept the expanded version).

> But there’s also a completely different variation that offers more storytelling and explanation
(One of the great aspects of ancient quotes and stories is that they are subject to interpretation.):

A young boy became a monk. He dreamed of enlightenment and of learning great things.
When he got to the monastery
he was told that each morning he had to chop wood for the monks fires and then carry water up to the monastery for ablutions and the kitchen.
He attended prayers and meditation, but the teaching he was given was rather sparse.
One day he was told to take some tea to the Abbot in his chambers.
He did so and the Abbot saw he looked sad and asked him why.
He replied every day all I do is chop wood and carry water. I want to learn. I want to understand things. I want to be great one day, like you.
The Abbot gestured to the scrolls on shelves lining the walls.
He said,
‘When I started I was like you. Every day I would chop wood and carry water.
Like you I understood that someone had to do these things, but like you I wanted to move forward.
Eventually I did.
I read all of the scrolls, I met with Kings and and gave council. I became the Abbot.
Now, I understand that the key to everything is that everything is chopping wood and carrying water,
and that if one does everything mindfully then it is all the same.’

Mindful.
In Merriam-Webster... (Words are important. Words have a meaning!)

> bearing in mind
> inclined to be aware

Having specified facts or feelings actively impressed on the mind.
a truly considerate person, always mindful of the needs of others

Words related to Mindful:
alert, attentive, careful, cautious, heedful, observant, open-eyed, regardful, safe, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide-awake.

I must admit that -trying to go "beyond" Sun Tzu (my interpretation)- this Zen vision is the area in which I like to gravitate today.
Aiming to overcome each idea of contrast and confict and war.
Exasperating the concept of being water in water.

Now I become to look like sort of "esoteric"! Yeah: intentionally. Just for a few intimate and open-minded people.
The others won't understand me.
So no problem.

Again: no!
I'm not a self-proclaimed guru.
I'm an humble, observant (somewhat old) student of the Markets... who is desperately trying to talk to some other willing and MINDFUL student.

"Don't follow leaders... watch your parking meter." - Bob Dylan

Always an interesting read, thought provoking, and you have introduced me to some new wonderful music . Thank you.

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows..." . Bob Dylan

My Dylan!

I much prefer the latter, there's less resistance and it encourages free flow of things but that's not to say it's going to be easy!
Resistance in life creates suffering not so surprisingly it seems to translate into trading as well.

I'm only beginning to see "some" conflict in the terrain so that's not what I should be worried about at the moment but I'm less ignorant than before

DAX m5... yesterday!