Hi Ania - I actually did join the army and enjoyed the structured lifestyle... for a while. Looking back I think of it as outsourcing all responsibility and I question whether doing something because you are being told to is discipline after all.
I am in a very similar boat to you at the moment. A 4 year old, a 7 month told, homeschooling and working from home in a small flat. I aim for 30 mins zazen in the morning with the euro crew in the SSR, 15 mins Qigong or yoga and a some time studying of a Zen or other Buddhist text. I then try and fit some exercise in at some point in the afternoon or early evening.
I have always taken a lot of comfort from routines, particularly in the morning but I have had to accept that due to the current circumstances I'm probably going to be interrupted and not going to achieve all that, the one thing I make sure I do is fit some zazen in. Somewhere. Somehow.
Sorry, I also overran!
Gassho,
heiso.
StLah
I am in a very similar boat to you at the moment. A 4 year old, a 7 month told, homeschooling and working from home in a small flat. I aim for 30 mins zazen in the morning with the euro crew in the SSR, 15 mins Qigong or yoga and a some time studying of a Zen or other Buddhist text. I then try and fit some exercise in at some point in the afternoon or early evening.
I have always taken a lot of comfort from routines, particularly in the morning but I have had to accept that due to the current circumstances I'm probably going to be interrupted and not going to achieve all that, the one thing I make sure I do is fit some zazen in. Somewhere. Somehow.
Sorry, I also overran!
Gassho,
heiso.
StLah
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