It’s a beautiful day out there. A walk across the fields in the sunshine for coffee seems like a good idea.
“Meditation is not about becoming a better person or a more spiritual person. It’s about becoming a more honest person.”
— Barry Magid, Ordinary Mind Zendo
I enjoy Day One Journal’s On This Day feature popping up, as it does, entries from years past. The older the entries the more I don’t recognise the author. Many seem written by someone I can barely relate to, someone completely different which, in one sense, is true.
“The point of Zen is not to escape life, but to live it completely, to taste fully the richness, the sweetness, the bitterness, the sourness, and the umami of every moment.”
— Barry Magid, Ordinary Mind Zendo
Whatever a tree does, whatever a fly does, whatever the sea does, whatever a penguin does, whatever a star does; we’re busy doing our version of it.
“Meditation/ contemplation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”
— Alan Watts
I like being in art galleries in the same way I like being in churches. And I like having no idea why.
“If we have one job in times like this, it is to be bearers, through our careful grief, of love, of grace, of light even, into this present darkness.”
So, made it into work after all, dodging lots of standing water most of the way. Thought it would be much worse. Just goes to show you never can tell.