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What are your personal Hobbies in life? (Besides meditation and study etc)
zenmyste
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What do Enjoy doing in your free time?
Or if you dont have the time, what do you try to make time for????
What would you like to do more of??
Thanks!
Or if you dont have the time, what do you try to make time for????
What would you like to do more of??
Thanks!
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Knitting
Cooking
Reading
Gardening.
I do all of them simultaneously, naturally.
It saves time, and gives me more opportunities to be on here, watching you lot.
Writing in my journal
Writing haiku and sometimes poetry (and haiku is actually quite a complex poetic form!)
Playing the shakuhachi
Other things:
Spending time with my girlfriend online (and we sometimes watch documentaries or lectures online together)
Listen to a variety of music - so-called "early music" (medieval, Renaissance and baroque - preferably all HIP recordings), classical, avant garde (Cage, Feldman, et al), jazz (mainly 50s-60s), 60s 70s 80s rock, punk, post-rock, ambient, some electronica, a little folk music, and various music from around the world -- too much.
Workout doing weights and cardio
Reading poetry
Watch a movie on my computer (rarely - often foreign or independent films which I generally find more interesting)
Playing the acoustic guitar and singing (less rarely these days)
Drinks lots of hot tea!
I used to writing and record my own music (rock and also ambient experimental stuff) but I no longer have the energy or enthusiasm to do the hard work!
Spending too much time on this bloody laptop! (I've made great improvements but have a way to go yet)
TO ADD:
I'd love to lean Qigong. I've done a bit of it in the past (with videos)
I would like to do more reading and travel.
With the empty nest pending, I would love to get in some travel!
Hiking
Biking
Spending time at the lake with my family
Sauna (generally at the lake but it deserves it's own designation, lol)
Downhill skiing/snowboarding
Kayaking
Berry picking
Gardening (mostly veggie)
Wildlife tracking and photography (well, I help find the animals and my husband takes pictures)
Snowshoeing
Rollerblading
Basically anything that involves the outdoors in my general area
Reading
Coloring (very meditative for me, I frequently print mandalas offline and color them in with colored pencils)
Legos (usually with the kids but not always!)
Playing with our dog and ferrets
Carving diamond willow
Playing Wow with my husband
Weight lifting
Boxing
Making smoothies (it's an unending experiment!)
I actually have a lot of activities that keep me busy when I have the spare time. Much of my time is spent playing with my 4 year old and running my older kids to activities and being involved in those activities and helping them with homework.
What I wish I had more time for: Actually not really anything. Some days I wish I had more time to meditate whenever I want, but I usually get it done easily. Mostly I wish we had a little more summer and a little less winter, especially this year
Mountain Biking, Learning (books, magazines, documentaries, podcasts), Lucid Dreaming, Kayaking,
pencil drawing
video games
playing guitar
reading random books
beat boxing
bike riding
drinking coffee
living in the moment
philosophizing
hiking
gazing
wondering
teaching
learning
yearning
letting go
wash
rinse
repeat
Cycling (mainly commuting and light-touring)
Listening to music (everything from classical to hip-hop to black metal)
Doing whatever my gf wants to do (like a good boyfriend
Watching "boring" movies, mainly foreign films - Wong Kar-Wai is probably my favourite director.
My other big interest is boxing. I've never boxed but am an aspiring boxing writer and historian. I write for a website and am working on my first book. This may appear to be a contradiction of my buddhist beliefs but it really is an exhibition of control and discipline as opposed to just mindless violence. As Jack Handey said, "To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."
Smoking a pipe, gets me outdoors and reflective
Role playing video games
The sky
Watercolor painting
Watercolor pencils
Sketches
Exercising at a gym (machines, running/walking, basketball shooting around)
Tennis
Magic the Gathering (cheapest cards with summer gathering of family)
Card games
Dog/cat tending and petting
Listening to music
Tea
Coffee
Walks sometimes
I want to learn carving
I often will use a journal as a way of trying to gain some clarity on something--if I haven't formulated clearly to myself, then I don't feel I have properly understood it for myself. so its kind of a mental discipline for me. I used to write for the end result, of having written something. Now it is more about the act of writing and thinking and the what is finally written is a by product of that.
Unfortunately I have gotten into the bad habit of using the laptop instead of handwriting it. I try to copy it into a journal book, but Ive resigned myself to just printing out what I've written periodically and stick it in a three ring binder. Using a word processor helps me juggle things around a bit, otherwise my journal would be a mess of scribbles-- and that is just unacceptable for a neat freak like me! lol
-Reading
-Video editing (don't do this one that often)
-Video games (don't do this one that often either)
-Writing (I want to write a book, but, again, not that much time or talent.
-Cooking
any one else QRV?
SLAIANTE
other wise....
art
drawing
painting
writing haiku
video games
making videos
making mala beads
obsessing over changing the look of my shrine
finding used dharma books on amazon
coffee
tea
obsessing over what tattoo to get next
music
trying to figure out women (impossible task mind you)
overall being a better person and follows the buddha's dharma to the best of my ability and always trying to improve on that
and more...
_/\_ *bow*
drawing - monsters
galleries - outsider art
Dancing - 5 rhythms
cooking - hippy food
ukulele/singing - badly/loudly
and avoiding my friends.....
. . . is it time for dharma karaoke yet?
Dharma dance anyone . . .
all together now . . .
Om Mani Peme Hum . . .
:wave:
Posting on NB, haha!
Researching cool stuff/reading.
Fede's post reminds me I need to get back into Qi Gung.
Walking & gym
When not just sitting or wondering how to sell more records I waste my time as follows..
Playing guitar/piano
Mixing music
Talking nonsense on NewBuddhist and elsewhere
Writing about metaphysics and Buddhism in the hope of one day finishing something decent
Reading
Trying to prove the twin primes conjecture
Watching too much TV
(I see there are a few video makers here. I'm looking for some cheap promo vids if anyone wants to do loads of work for almost nothing upfront. As if...)