Reading and meditating [session 06-N] Wake Up (r2)
Channel: Buddhism 4 Happiness
Date: 13/01/2019

Dear Dharma Bums,
I continue to read Wake Up: A life of the Buddha, by Jack Kerouac, and it's getting very good. I meditate upon the great renunciation required to abandon a wealthy way of living in order seek spiritual wealth. {Here I am [on January 12, 2019 5 PM] again at the Terracotta Business Park, I named 'Terracotta Plaza'}
This is the second reading of this book. You may get to the first reading with link https://tinyurl.com/wakeupr1 where r1 means the first reading. Therefore, this being the second reading,  you may find it at https://tinyurl.com/wakeupr2 and the third reading is soon found at https://tinyurl.com/wakeupr3  . . . and so on. I think it makes it easy for you and me to find the sessions where I read this book. I hope to create more reading sessons until I finish reading this book. Or should I say, I vow to complete this book in these sessions of Reading and Meditating. Wish me luck.

ABOUT THIS BOOK
Originally written in 1955 and now published for the first time in paperback, "Wake Up" is Kerouac's retelling of the life of Prince Siddhartha Gotama, who as a young man abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a lifelong search for enlightenment. Distilled from a wide variety of canonical scriptures, "Wake Up" serves as both a penetrating account of the Buddha's life and a concise primer on the principal teachings of Buddhism.
Author: Jack Kerouac
Published: Sep 18, 2008 [with 36 page introduction by Robert Thurman]
Number of pages: 146
Genres: Buddhism · Spirituality · Religion · Biography · Non-fiction




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some technical notes just for me:

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raw source file: WP_20190112_17_23_49_Pro.mp4
renamed to        WP_20190112_17-RnMs06n-wu_r02.mp4
recorded using my HP Elite X3, which is okay but not very good in dim lighting.

I am trying to come up with a standardized way of renaming my raw videos and implementing this soon after downloading a video to my PC from my phone camera.
Here is one way. For example, in this case,
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I want to refer to the eventual YouTube title of video: 
Reading and meditating [session 06-N] Wake Up (r2)
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So to rename the video source, I keep the WP and datestamp but remove the "_Pro" at the end (and perhaps remove the minutes and seconds, just leave the hour), and replace with some code to indicate the session and what book and a number indicating the number of times I've visited that book so far.
so in this case, it is session 06,  I try to reduce the number of digits used, so instead of writing out "session 06", I abbreviate it as "s06" then I add "n" for "English", so I have "s06n".  Then I wish to know which book I am reading from, so for example, in this case, "Wake Up" is the book I am reading from, so I abbreviate using two or three initials of the book, so "wu" are the two initials for "Wake Up", so I add "-wu" to the end, followed by "_r02 which reminds me that this was the second time I've read from this book. Altogether, I get "s06n-wu_r02", and I add RnM in front, as an indication that I am doing a "Reading and Meditation" session, perhaps redundant, but I hope to use it to search with. Altogether I get "WP_20190112_17-RnMs06n-wu_r02.mp4"  which tells me quite a lot. If I am reading a book in Spanish then I would use "LyM" which means "Leyendo Y Meditando" and if I am reading Buda by Ramiro Calle, I would indicate this by "brc" while Buda by Deepak Chopra would be "bdc" and I will have to keep a list as a legend of what the initials mean, as I bring in other books to meditate on. For example, "The New Eight Steps to Happiness" I would abbreviate as "8sh" derived from "8 Steps Happiness" enough to let me know which book.