May 11, 2024

Today seemed like your usual day and zen meditation class. I know I slept somewhat early today, around midnight. But I woke up and it was already 10 a.m. or so. I kind of rushed my morning and didn't really eat any breakfast because I had so little time before I had to leave for lunch. Still, I played some Overwatch and managed to lock in a win before leaving.

While on my commute, I had some weird thoughts. I just kept thinking about letting them go and whatnot. Regardless, the trip was fairly quick and I actually got in time to have lunch. Thankfully, the monastery was handing out free vegan lunch. I ate 2 dishes, one was obviously full of mushrooms. I'm a big fan of mushrooms so I finished all of that. The other one was probably tofu or mushroom in adobo soup, so it was pretty delicious. It actually surprised me how good it was. Then I got to go to the meditation hall and do some meditation. It only was for 30 minutes, which seemed okay but I didn't really meditate much at all because my mind was still racing. Our shi fu then gave us a talk about the actual meaning of karma, how you build it, the good and bad examples of it, and so on. It was nice, I got to learn a few things and laugh at the funny examples provided. I didn't linger much after class ended and just went home.

By the evening, I just did random things and got food at the mercato again. Thankfully, I had a lot of money and I got 10 oysters, 4 bacon enoki sticks, and that cheesy Buldak thing that they served. It was a lot and my sister and I felt full from eating. We enjoyed our meal, though, and I continued to do random things online before falling asleep late at around 3 a.m.