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Trike Daily Array

The Big Sit, Day 3

By Tricycle

Day 3: No mailmen interrupting us today! The sit felt a bit long for me personally. We used a mediatation timer we all loved (until we found out how expensive it was!) There’s so much discussion over this, we plan to have a feature on how people time their sits over on the Big Sit site — free online ones, ones on your iPhone if you’re lucky enough to have one, using an incense stick of a certain length, a kitchen timer…

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