I had a moment of clarity this morning when I was out walking. Now, don't mock! I know it doesn't happen very often but the early morning air seems to really get the old brain cells working!
Since my retreat in Killarney I have been pretty good at "waking up with a smile", and it certainly does start the day in the right frame of mind. But it doesn't always come easily. I often feel like I'm on a treadmill, one day pretty much like the last, with no end in sight.
Well, as I said, today I had a moment of clarity! I am still looking for "something", and in the looking I am missing the real deal! I am by-passing life in order to look for how I think life should be!
So all I have to do now is figure out how to stop doing that and I'll be quids in!!!
I think that I am basically a lazy kind of an individual...no, don't disagree with me! Oh, you were agreeing!!! Again, I think it takes a rare moment of clarity to recognise that I'm not just going to wake up tomorrow and be living a wonderfully mindful life...I am going to have to work at it!
But hey...if it's worth having...
And it most certainly is!
Today I am grateful for rare moments of clarity in my normally foggy brain!
And I think it's back to reading Thay's books for me!!!
Gratefully yours.
xx
Yes, that's so true - the only way to be more mindful in the future is to be more mindful in this moment - it's called a practice because we need to practice it over and over and over! And our everyday, messy lives are exactly what we need to work with - Pema Chodron (wonderful American teacher in the Tibetan tradition) says that when we want everything to be perfect, we're actually saying 'no' to life, because life never is, never was and never will be perfect.
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