Born to run

Went out and blew S$209 on a vibram shoe. I had stopped running for more than two years after I felt I pulled my knee after a particularly exhaustive schedule of running, badminton and more badminton. Just before I stopped, I was running really well and enjoying my weekly exercise with my colleagues.

What changed for me today was reading the book Born to Run, and I identified with the author's notion that ad human beings we were designed to run, which was what our prehistoric ancestors had to do to hunt animals. It was the natural thing to do. What was unnatural and causing all our injuries was actually the heavily cushioned running shoes that modern technology gives us. In fact according to the book, the better the shoe, the more dangerous it is.

Down with viral infection

How the new year has begun does not bode well for me. I have been away almost two days a week; last week because of cough and sorethroat and this week for diarrhoea and viral infection.

Used the opportunity to reflect on how easy one's health can change, and really the meditation masters when they described how they persevered in their meditation when they are seriously sick, I must pay respect to them. I tried to hold on to "buddho" for a while but most of the the I just wanted to sleep or to use my iPad to distract the mind.

So much for 2 weeks of ordination! What Ajahn Keng said is so true, one must really 拼 especially when one is healthy and know the way to samadhi.