With palms together,
Good Morning All,
If we keep a piece of fruit too long without enjoying it, it becomes unenjoyable. Nothing can be saved for very long: the universal processes, revealing the truth of impermanence, cannot be stopped. Yet we try. My, do we try.
Trying to stop change is like refusing the Universal. Here comes the flood, let's stop it! Right!
If we are "lucky" or willing to work hard, we might slow it down, yet in the process, it is interesting to note, we lose touch with that which we are now because our attention is directed toward keeping change from happening.
Enjoy this moment, as it is. If you are exercising, you are enjoying your exercise, not working to forestall a weakened future! If you are eating healthy, enjoy eating healthy, not the thought that you are pushing away cancer or some other dread inevitability.
Take a bite of life and savor it!
Be well.
Welcome back, Sodaiho-roshi!! My teacher discussed mindfulness practice too, today, at my Zen center. Thank you. Enjoy your life!
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, once it sinks in that there is no self, and there is no soul, and there is no you, the razor edge of the present becomes much more fun, and compassion much more natural.
ReplyDeleteVery good stuff...
ReplyDeleteMy sons like bananas a bit green, I do not, and think I will eat it later. But I don't see the banana when it is ripe, distracted by whatever, until I see the tiny flies over the brown fruit. Oh no.
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