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Hello meditators,
I am contending with what I expect to be a common difficulty in meditation. My mind is highly analytical. I am almost always processing information and fitting it into my framework of understanding, generating hypotheses, and adjusting theories to fit new data. The process is ceaseless. Not an hour goes by when I do not continually work to update my understand of my own consciousness, which is the central question that drives me in all pursuits.
The difficult I face when meditating is thus predictable. I am analyzing and thinking about meditation while trying to meditate, which is antithetical to the purpose. Focusing on the breath is difficult; I can sustain it for a few moments before I am once again carried away in thought. Even when my mind feels relatively "idle," there is a great deal of processing taking place. It's relentless. I have described my mind to others as a thunderstorm; my romantic companion describes it as a river. The common theme between these two metaphors is volume.
I nevertheless persist with the exercise and sit for at least twenty minutes. If I cannot stop thoughts or step away from them sufficiently to be mindful of the breath, then I try to observe the thoughts as they pass, getting a sense for their general shape, their source, and otherwise their essential nature. My practice feels undisciplined, however, because it seemingly lacks consistent focus.
In terms of technique, I've tried multiple: counting the intake and outtake of breaths, visualization, and assessing the length of each inhalation and exhalation (1-2-3-4-5, 1-2-3-4-5). With each of these techniques, I am unable to maintain consistent focus for long.
I tried this Muse headband gimmick, which is an EEG device that provides real time feedback on your mindstate in order to assist in deepening meditation practice. I think it might be counterproductive, though, because I find myself paying attention to the feedback and trying to "game" the system rather than focusing my attention on my breath as I should. I am leaning towards dispensing with this experiment and returning to the traditional methods with which I began.
I am open to and grateful for any feedback, tips, resources, or thoughts of any kind that anyone would like to offer.
It takes time to re-train many years of letting the mind run amuck. The method I use is to sit and breathe, but when a thought arises and I noticed I have followed it, I say "thinking" and go back to my breath. After years, some days go quite well (few reminders needed) and other times it is constant for my whole practice. The brain thinks. That's it's job. It is up to 'us' to determine that just because it's churning out factory thoughts doesn't mean we should give them our attention. The other thing that works is a cloud visual, where I imagine the thought in a cloud and floating away.
You could try:
As far as I am concerned, just daily sitting is noticing or attention to mara/mind/arisings. What you are attempting to do is 'not meditate'. Very well. Metta to just sitting 'not meditating' mind ...
Thank you both for the feedback.
The method I use is to sit and breathe, but when a thought arises and I noticed I have followed it, I say "thinking" and go back to my breath.
I was introduced to this technique in guided meditation, and I've found it useful. I struggle with moderately severe depression -- thankfully under control at the moment -- and the noting technique has allowed me to give myself some distance from ruminating thoughts. It doesn't stop them, but I don't become them quite so easily.
As far as I am concerned, just daily sitting is noticing or attention to mara/mind/arisings. What you are attempting to do is 'not meditate'. Very well. Metta to just sitting 'not meditating' mind ...
It took me a while to process this. What I think it means is that, in effect, I'm trying too hard. I am expecting a specific outcome from the experience and consciously trying to achieve that outcome. There is no wrong way to meditate. In fact, I am not meditating, I am just sitting. As distractions arise, I observe them. Nothing more.
Journal the thoughts. They may just be attention starved ...
This is probably true. I have volumes and volumes of thought that go unexpressed. Perhaps I need to let them out.
These are all good things for me to chew on. Thanks again.
Be patient. My preference is to stick with breath-counting: Each time you feel yourself drifting away from the counting -- eg. 1, 2, 3, 4, I want a hamburger -- return immediately to one and begin again. It is infuriating, at first, to find how undisciplined the intellect can be. Do it anyway.
As Swami Vivekananda observed, "The mind [he meant intellect] is a good servant and a poor master." Just keep on keeping on and a little at a time, the intellectual mind, which never has had a very good batting average at solving life's serious problems (Eg. if I'm so smart, how come I'm not happy?") will run out of steam. Just be patient. Courage, patience and doubt are your great allies.
Go ahead, be as smart as you like. That and a couple of dollars will get you a bus ride. Just be patient.
I was the same for a good while- I think when I started meditating I read so much on the subject- I was sitting there telling myself- Watch the breath... be aware of the Rising/Falling of the stomach- there is a sound, label as 'hearing', this book said this.. and so on. I was analysing every little thing. Then I realised the best thing you can do is just 'Let go'- I was over thinking techniques and putting pressure on myself, which was doing me no good.
Now I start with Metta loving kindness meditation, repeating the metta just snow-ploughs right through the distracting thoughts and I finds helps put a rhythm to my breathing, then move onto Samatha and put my intention on my breathing - then Vipassana which I try to just observe the thoughts and distractions that come up... Try to, because I do still find myself wandering away and realise- feck, I've been thinking about 90s cartoons for the last 10 mins... But I feel the difference is now I'm not too hard on myself- I just go back to metta...
Good luck x
@Refugee it won't happen overnight ...but it will eventually happen...And when it does it will make itself known, but at first you may not be aware of it...
The next time you sit, sit with the determination/purpose of only thinking about meditation and every time the mind becomes charmed by other thought patterns, bring it back to thinking about meditation ...Eventually there will be a realisation that meditation is actually taking place...Things will fall into place.... Peripheral awareness will gradually charm the charmer ....
Bearing in mind What we resist will persist
And as @lobster wisely mentioned...(getting down to the nitty gritty)
A koan. For example, 'what is the thinker?'.
"I thought that "I" was in charge of all the thinking until I had such a terrible thought
If there's an "I" doing all the thinking, then why am "I" at times quite distraught ?
If this were true then why am "I" not thinking happy thoughts all the time?
But as it stands "I" don't do this (well not according to this rhyme)
After "meditating" on this for a while, I came to a epiphany of sorts
If there's no "I" doing the thinking, could it be just another thought thinking these thoughts ?"
"I am just a thought "thinking" that "I am" just a thought"
In fact, I am not meditating, I am just sitting. As distractions arise, I observe them. Nothing more.
How pure and hard is that? This 'I' is a gibbering idiot, a distracted flow of monkey madness ... We can not meditate but we can just sit. Perhaps with breath counting. Forced attention, metta or body sensation awareness, yoga nidra style ...
Breath in. Breath out. More noting, more nothing ...
But I feel the difference is now I'm not too hard on myself- I just go back to metta...
Focusing on my breaths helped me.
What helps me even more are guided meditations.
These are deeper:
Have you looked into chanting? Nothing calms me more than the Nembutsu. I also reach out to Avolakitesvera in times of emotional distress.
Namu Amida butsu.... om mani padme hum...Namu Amida butsu.... om mani padme hum...Namu Amida butsu.... om mani padme hum...Namu Amida butsu.... om mani padme hum...
No time to think about thoughts. I let my self become a vessel for the sacred words. No worries. Until I go back to "I"....then I chant again.
Namu Amida butsu.... om mani padme hum...
Addendum: I too suffer from over thinking and analyzing. Chanting has helped with that. I can analyse how it works in the chant itself, something apart from me but inside of me as well. Coming from the inside out.
Some chants have a devotional spin to it. I am a Pure Land Buddhists. There are many other chants available though if that is not your cup of tea slash Dharma door.
Chanting that @kannon mentions is good. Here is my page on how it can work ...
Just reading half of the original post for me sometimes I perceive signals of 'stop'...
This fits with peaceful philosophy of stop, calm, rest, heal of TNH who is a kind of a zen buddhist thich chant hanh
Analyzing that I would say that if just feeling the body happens for awhile that doesn't mean important thoughts won't come later and you can do that. You can watch yourself trying and feeling whatever you are trying to do and then that's done. And then analyze.
A "beginner's mind" is the anecdote for an analytical mind. It might help a little to notice when you're being analytical, but don't do anything other than watch. The analytical mind is the same as the "monkey mind", and you would deal with it the same way.
It's like having a task of not jumping off the raft no matter how rough the waters get. You have to clench to it at times to survive, but keep in mind that its not made for clenching on to.
@genkaku said:
Be patient.
One time I was in such a monkey minded, busy, agitated mind state I ended up in a local Theravada monastery class doing walking meditation. So frantic, incessant, frenzied was my state, even my walking was too fast ...
Very kindly the abbot took me by the arm and walked slowly and patiently with me. I could not rush.
Doing stuff at half speed physically is a practice that can slow ones pace ... in time. Now I do walking meditation so slowly if in a circle, I slow everyone down. Kind of a practice jam ...
@Refugee, have you tried focusing on the spaces between thoughts yet?
Keeping on with returning to the breath will likely work eventually and it can be like a game to see about shortening the time before you realize you've been hooked. However I've also found that paying attention to the space between thoughts is a great way to make the spaces wider and wider.
Hi all,
All of this feedback has been immensely helpful, and I am grateful for all the comments.
What I have taken away most from this discussion is a renewed sense of patience, of less forceful effort, and of less resistance. I am seeing thoughts as they arise as thirsty plants in the garden demanding a bit of attention, and so when I observe that a particular thought has arisen multiple times, I see that it needs attention. When I give it the attention it craves, even if it is only an acknowledgement, it ceases or lessens its demands.
Of particular use, I think, would be a daily or weekly journal.
Thank you again.
Don't give up, don't judge yourself harshly. You are changing the current of a mighty river with a breath.....
Find a qualified teacher. Approach them with your question. Apply their answers, and be patient. It may take years or even decades.
The value of Buddhism is not in the goal, but in this present moment of application and observation. You ARE observing what your mind is doing, and that IS the practice.
Pema Chodron (a qualified and popular teacher in the West) says that even after 30+ years of meditating, her mind is still untamed. And this is okay. Because it is the process and not the end-result that matters.
You ARE observing what your mind is doing, and that IS the practice.
This is helpful feedback. You're right. Through meditation, I have become more familiar with the machinery of my own mind, and more intimately familiar with the realization that it is just that: machinery. Intellectually I believed this, but to believe and to see are two different things entirely.
This has helped me deal with unpleasant mind states. Throughout my life I have spiraled into depression, struggled with paranoid thoughts, obsessive compulsive tendencies... you name it, I've been there. The first tool I learned to use in order to counter these mind states was logic and intellect, and thus these are my most developed faculties. "Your intellect is your sword," a psychologist noted to me.
Afraid of flying? Learn everything in the world about planes.
Panic attacks that feel like a heart attack? Become a walking textbook on human physiology.
Depression? Time to become an armchair neuroscientist.
My vocabulary and writing style has become kind of strange because I spend so much of my time reading PubMed. I'm losing my fluidity with metaphor and simile because I'm feeding myself technical literature and little else.
Yet I find myself now in a stage of life where I have dealt with most of my acute problems and challenges and find myself lacking interest, ambition, motivation, and hope. Life is comfortable but meaningless. This is not a problem that I can solve with intellect or willpower. I am utterly consumed by philosophical questions relating to the meaning of life. I recognize this as the mind's machinery trying to solve the problem of a sense of aimlessness and meaninglessness, and I know that it will turn and turn and ultimately fail.
If I can just get out of my head for even a few moments, if I can step outside the realm of information, logic, thought, and cognition... I know that the answers are inside of me. I can sense the wholeness that lies within. I remember what it was like when I was a child. As a child, I had not yet built up layers and layers of false identity and layers and layers of preconceptions. When I looked at a flower, I saw it. Something so simple as naked observation... that is what I yearn for.
As for a teacher... I am not ready for that. The thought evokes a sense of a door slamming firmly shut, and unlike many doors inside, this one will not easily budge. This is not a manifestation of arrogance suggesting that I know best... it is something else. Something related to emotional wounds, a fragile sense of self. Let's call it a firewall. I don't know it yet for exactly what it is, but I recognize it as a defense mechanism.
This response ended up being far longer than I intended. I just started writing and the words came flowing out. For whatever reason, I can never seem to write journal entries, but I can write a response to a forum with no difficulty at all. I've tried pretending that I'm writing to someone else when I open the journal, but it feels hollow. Perhaps the mental image isn't strong enough, or perhaps I am so married to "truth" that I am losing my ability to pretend. Hmm.
Well, in any case, if anyone ended up reading all of this, sorry that I ended up journaling at you. Maybe I should start an online journal or blog.
LOL @Refugee
You will do fine.
@Refugee said:
I remember what it was like when I was a child. As a child, I had not yet built up layers and layers of false identity and layers and layers of preconceptions. When I looked at a flower, I saw it. Something so simple as naked observation... that is what I yearn for.
Right relaxed concentration might suit.
We can use a 'physical' object eg:
With right concentration, we are focussed, attentive, aware like a child but also open and flexible ...
Hope that is useful.
I just registered. So I'm late to the thread and responding to the initial post. I share that common difficulty. Helpful to me is persistent effort all day, starting with mere awareness of postures upon waking. I try not to beat myself up when it goes no further and pat myself on the back when I've repeatedly made the effort, even if only that was the best I could do. Repeated effort becomes habit. I find the growing habits of effort to return to the intended object of contemplation and nurturing the internal joy of making the best effort I can both conducive to sitting meditation, as there is no radical shift into it. Not always but usually, I find sitting becomes just a more conducive posture for that continual effort.
Welcome, @Snakeskin and thank you for your comment!
@IronRabbit too bad I can't give you all 3 points!
@Snakeskin said:
Not always but usually, I find sitting becomes just a more conducive posture for that continual effort.
Meditation in its purest form, does not begin, does not end. Sometimes it is more formal/conducive.
How to do without effort?
@SpinyNorman said:
@lobster said:> - a flower, candle, stone, image,
Also the sea, the clouds, some trees - nature is a wonderful teacher!
PS unless it's raining.
Yeah, melancholy can come on the wings of sweeping rains. It visited me yesterday, and I made the mistake of trying to peer into the future and examined the relationship between aging single males and their parents through the lens of Google. I slept badly and had dark, emotional dreams and have been considerably out of whack today.
You think you're doing ok, and suddenly a different aspect of samsara comes visiting.


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Cottonwood Grove Christian School had its program Dec. 19. They had a Christmas party at the school before dismissing for the holiday break.
The youth of Morning Star Church were busy caroling the past week which was appreciated. The weather has been great to be out and about, spreading joy to all.
Lola Redger and Jaraine went to Hillsboro Dec. 13 to visit Darlene Unruh at Parkside Homes.
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Tonight: Pittsburgh Penguins at New York Rangers, 8 p.m.
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PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Matt Murray is nearing a return from a concussion that's sidelined him for two weeks.
Murray faced shots Tuesday before the rest of the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions took the ice. Murray hasn't played since sustaining the concussion after taking a shot to the facemask in practice late last month.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Courtesy of stellar pitching performances from senior Ronni Ferris and freshman Bethany Fronk, the Birmingham-Southern softball team defeated Centre twice today at BSC Softball Park by the scores of 4-1 and 5-0.
The Panthers move to 21-5 overall and 9-1 in the SCAC, leading the East Division standings, while the Colonels fall to 8-15 overall and 1-5 in the league.
In the first game, BSC's first two runs came in the fourth inning courtesy of an RBI triple by junior Brittany Berkopec and an RBI single by senior Ronni Ferris. The Panthers went up 4-0 in the fifth inning, scoring on a wild pitch and a sac-fly by Fronk. The Colonels scored a single run in the top of the sixth, but BSC held them scoreless for the seventh for the 4-1 win.
Ferris threw all seven innings, moving to 8-4 on the season after striking out 10 batters and giving up eight hits. Ferris and senior Ashley Bice led at the plate, both going 2-3; the Panthers recorded seven total hits.
In game two, BSC's first run was in the first inning on a bases-loaded walk. The Panthers would not score again until the fifth when an RBI single by senior Emily Merritt put them up 2-0. After a pitching change by the Colonels, with two outs on the board, the Panthers scored twice more on errors to go up 4-0. BSC added one more in the sixth on an RBI single by freshman Taylor Bassett.
Fronk pitched the complete game to move to 9-0 on the year, recording six strikeouts and giving up five hits. Berkopec went 2-2 at the plate, while Bice was 2-4.
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Key Findings
Well over half of the world's computer users — 57% — admit they pirate software.
Country by country, the frequency with which people report acquiring unlicensed software closely aligns with the actual rates of piracy that IDC calculates annually for this report using hard market data.
The global piracy rate for PC software hovers at 42 percent.
The users who say they pirate software most frequently are disproportionately young and male — and they install more software of all types on their computers than do infrequent pirates or non-pirates.
The commercial value of this shadow market of pirated software climbed from $58.8 billion in 2010 to $63 billion in 2011, a new record, propelled by PC shipments to emerging economies where piracy rates are highest.
Emerging economies, which in recent years have been the driving force behind PC software piracy, are now decisively outpacing mature markets in their rate of growth. They took in 56 percent of the world's new PC shipments in 2011 and now account for more than half of all PCs in use.


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Click here for the MP4/8 post on the new version of my site!
The McLaren-Ford MP4/8 was McLaren's entry in the 1993 Formula One season, driven by Brazilian legend and triple World Champion Ayrton Senna and his team-mate Michael Andretti, son of the 1978 champion Mario Andretti. Honda withdrew from Formula One after the 1992 season, leaving McLaren to scramble around for a new engine supplier. They ended up using a customer version of the Ford HB7 3.5 litre V8 engine, although they tested a modified version of the car later in the season with a Lambourghini engine, which Senna preferred. The Ford engine was used for all races in 1993, before the team switched to Peugeot power for a very unsuccessful 1994.
Senna took all 5 of the car's victories, whilst Andretti was involved in numerous incidents throughout the year. His general performance was poor, and the team replaced him with Mika Häkkinen in the latter part of the season. Häkkinen stayed with McLaren until his retirement after the 2001 season—during his time with the team, he won both of his World Championships (1998, 1999).
Outwardly, the car changed very little from race to race, the most noticeable differences being the barge boards, which put in appearances at some races, and revised front wing end plates. A few different configurations of rear wings were used throughout the season as well.
This project is a 3D recreation of Senna's last race-winning car, and one of the best looking Formula One cars of all time. The detail level has gone from being relatively high, to a bit stupid, but these things happen! External bodywork will be produced to represent the car for any race in the season, although the internals are restricted to the available references, which are for the season-opening South African Grand Prix at Kyalami, the season-ending Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide, and photos of one of the chassis' as it appeared in 2001, by which time several changes had been made.
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May 27 2011
#1 Gold says: 14h45:21
Hi, what changes had been made to the chassis by the private owner by 2001?
Did the active still work? Did it need the old laptops? Or could the software run on Windows 7?
May 27 2011
#2 Gold says: 14h46:46
I believe this is the most beautiful F1 car ever, bar 1.
The MP4/8B. The McLaren Chrysler/Lamborghini V12.
So very few pictures of it exists, the body was actually slightly longer than the MP4/8A.
May 27 2011
#3 Gold says: 14h53:40
The most difficult part of this car to model I believe is the nose.
May 28 2011
#4 Paul says: 15h23:37
Hi thanks for the comments.
I honestly have no idea about the technical state of any of the surviving chassis. The dampers look fundamentally the same as they did during the season, just with a slightly different arrangement of the components, but I have no idea if they still run them actively.
The 8B I have seen only the tiniest photos of - I know it exist(s/ed?), and I know it was slightly longer, and I know Senna preferred the engine over the Ford, but beyond that and the fact it was painted all-over white, I have no real ideas of visual differences. I actually prefer the MP4/6 to the 8, but there's no doubting it is a stunning looking car.
The nose was modelled along with the rest of the bodywork at the very beginning of the project (the project resurrection, that is) - it needs a few little tweaks to the shape still, and the addition of the front wing, but otherwise it is being very patient waiting its turn to be shown off in a render. I'm doing the rear wings at the moment, and the nose will come next.
Dec 11 2012
#5 Imran says: 12h33:46
Hi, I just came across your work. I like your McLaren MP4/8 rendition. For me also, the most beautiful F1 car ever.
I myself modeled the 4/8 a good few years ago but is nowhere near as detailed as yours. This got me wondering.. unless you have a photographic memory, where on earth did you get the details from? :)
Congrats - great work!
Dec 29 2012
#6 Paul says: 14h01:16
Hi Imran, thanks for your comment. I actually saw your version during the early stages of my initial preparations so it was one of the inspirations for this one.
There are some fantastic references for this car out there though - I've never seen it in person either!


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Re: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Discussion/SPOILERS
i noticed another similarity to star wars
when the russian leader that Cate Blanchett played died at the end i recall fire coming from her eye socket. in revenge of the sith when General Grevious died flames came from his eye socket.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The city of Indianapolis, flush from the economic and public relations successes of this year's Super Bowl, wants to host the big game again in 2018.
Declaring "let's do it again," Mayor Greg Ballard announced plans for a formal bid Wednesday to cheers from organizers and volunteers who helped plan and stage the Feb. 5 game and the celebrations and events leading up to it.
Ballard said officials were delighted by the game's financial performance, which included nearly $152 million in direct economic impact and the positive national exposure it brought to the city. He said an analysis found that about 84 cents of every dollar spent for Super Bowl stayed in Indianapolis.
"Those are the kind of numbers that I like — somebody else spent money and Indy benefited from it, so I have four words for you: Let's do it again," Ballard said to applause during a news conference at Lucas Oil Stadium downtown.
Both Ballard and Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay said they expected competition would be stiff for the city to land a second Super Bowl. Irsay said he is completely behind the new bid and said he had heard rave reviews from other league owners on Indianapolis' performance as a host city.
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Mild, sunny weather in Indy helped stave off fears that a "northern" Super Bowl would be a bummer because of cold temperatures, but organizers said they believe large crowds would have come in colder weather, too.
Irsay said the Super Bowl village activities and other events related to the game showed that the city best known as the home of the Indianapolis 500 auto race — and ridiculed decades ago as "Naptown" by some detractors — could pull off a big event in a unique way.
"Of course the weather cooperated," he said. "We probably had some expenditure on suntan lotion, maybe not sand for the snowplows."
Ballard said the city would submit its bid to the NFL for the 2018 game in early 2014 and that the league is expected to announce the winner in May of that year.
The game between the New York Giants and New England Patriots, and the pre-game events were widely considered a success. Indianapolis won praise for its cleanliness, friendliness and its compact downtown that made it easy for visitors to walk to events and restaurants.
Super Bowl host committee president Allison Melangton said a review found that 99 percent of media mentions about Indianapolis surrounding the Super Bowl were positive. The announcement included a video montage of fans praising the city's orchestration of Super Bowl events and celebrities such as Madonna — the game's halftime act — expressing excitement about the game.
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Yesterday we saw the U.S. Customs and Border Protection release a photo of them crushing a VIN-swapped, illegally imported Land Rover Defender near Baltimore. Here is the video of the brutal execution.
The Land Rover is the sad and innocent party in this whole affair. We all know that it's basically the same vehicle as the 25+ year-old Defenders we Americans can legally import into our country. That this example got caught up in a VIN-swapping enterprise means it had to die.
Of course, if the US, Japan, and the EU could agree to uniform safety and emission standards, rather than regulate out imports like this, we'd never have this problem.
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Rocker Steven Tyler has sparked speculation of a reconciliation with his former fiancée Erin Brady after they were photographed together in New York.
The Aerosmith front man proposed to the model on Christmas Day in 2011, but rumors of trouble in the relationship surfaced last autumn. By January, they had allegedly called off their engagement and split.
However, it appears the couple is back together after Tyler was snapped out and about in Manhattan's trendy Tribeca district this week with the leggy beauty by his side.
The 65-year-old rocker, who has been married twice before, began dating Brady, who is 25 years his junior, in 2006.