Cinder on Twitter: "@jedzza @leashless 4. Cultivate non-sitting practice. Sitting when householding is important, but a luxury. If you want hobbies, friends, a job, exercise, family time... sitting consistently becomes difficult. Do it when able. I rarely sit these days. I rarely have to. Practice mostly in vivo. ." / Twitter

Popped up the MP3s for the old Cutting Machinery app thecuttingmachinery.com for anybody that was doing the practices and misses having the audio. I guess you'd have to download them and make a playlist.

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I've actually been itching to write about this for a while. Used to write about my practice couple years ago, but dropped it when I felt I couldn't maintain quality. Going to put something up over the weekend. Will let you know. As for short advice, let's see...

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4. Cultivate non-sitting practice. Sitting when householding is important, but a luxury. If you want hobbies, friends, a job, exercise, family time... sitting consistently becomes difficult. Do it when able. I rarely sit these days. I rarely have to. Practice mostly in vivo. .

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5. Work technique first. If you sit a lot, technique tends to self-correct. You have time to feel around the edges. "Just sit." In live practice, bad technique will fuck your relationships straight up. Or make you go crazy. Read well, consult trusted sources, apply carefully.

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E.g. when I had more of a sitting practice, I'd sometimes juggle the order of the Cutting Machinery stages. Never, ever do this around a person you care about. You need equanimity for the emotional processing, or you are liable to do very bad, stupid things.

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Do you have some examples or resources of good non-sitting practices? I've only encountered one or two before, and from what I remember I don't see how they'd overlap well with other tasks

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