Another list post. D would be proud.
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I’m going to try to get my hands on the source for this, and generalize it to any site with comments.
“…we human beings live in a very peculiar fashion. We view impermanent things as permanent, though everything is changing all around us. The process of change is constant and eternal. Even as you read these words, your body is aging. But you pay no attention to that. The book in your hand is decaying. The print is fading, and the pages are becoming brittle. The walls around you are aging. The molecules within those walls are vibrating at an enormous rate, and everything is shifting, going to pieces, and slowly dissolving. You pay no attention to that either. Then one day you look around you. Your skin is wrinkled and your joints ache. The book is a yellowed, faded thing; and the building is falling apart. So you pine for lost youth, cry when your possessions are gone. Where does this pain come from? It comes from your own inattention. You failed to look closely at life. You failed to observe the constantly shifting flow of the world as it passed by. You set up a collection of mental constructions–”me,” “the book,” “the building”–and you assumed that those were solid, real entities. You assumed that they would endure forever. They never do.”
From Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante H. Gunaratana
1. Ride the overnight. It’s a gamble as to how much sleep you’ll get, but only being awake for half the ride and being tired is better than being bored stiff for 7 hours.
2. Bring the best earplugs you have/can afford.
3. Bring something to cover your eyes.
4. Get a window seat.
5. Bring a sweatshirt.
6. Wedge the sweatshirt between the window and the seat, then wedge your head on top of it.
7. Put the armrest between the seats down, so as to limit the amount of space your (inevitably) enormous companion can take up.
8. Remind yourself as frequently as necessary how much money you’re saving.
Last but not least, have eggs with your pop when you arrive.