ANIMATED CHAOS
Kevad küll ilmaga veel omajagu trikitab, aga esimesed sumisejad on juba liikluses ja iga tsiklisti hinge poeb äratundmisrõõm, kui autode vahelt vilksab ka mõni kaherattaline. Varsti on ööpäev läbi plusskraadid, tänavatelt pestakse talvetolm maha ja seltskond ratastel saab uue hingamise, sest talve läbi kogutud pinged saab nüüd lõpuks ka korralikult tuulde lasta. Sõna otseses mõttes…
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Have you ever held a perfectly fine pencil, about to write something down, and thought, “You know what? This pencil is too blunt. I shall sharpen it!”? When you proceed to sharpen the pencil, the graphite keeps breaking and breaking and, honestly, the pencil was not even that blunt when you picked it up. You could have easily used it to mark down whatever was on your mind. But now you have invested time and effort in sharpening the damn pencil and you refuse to give up, even though you have forgotten about why you needed the pencil in the first place.
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I find it fascinating how the mind tricks us. When I close my eyes and meditate for 30 minutes, all sorts of peculiar things happen.
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There is an old Zen Buddhist story about how we tend to see events as either good or bad, not simply neutral happenings in life as a bigger whole. I have copied the story at the end of this post and I encourage you all to read it because what happened to me today was literally the same.
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Take a few moments to be still. Congratulate yourself for taking this time for meditation practice.
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