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With palms together,
Good Morning All,
The rainy season has come to the desert southwest. We usually can count on rainy afternoons over the next six weeks or so, maybe eight, if we are lucky. In the desert, rain is so uncommon the ground cannot receive it. Our rain is large, forceful drops that pound the ground, run off the mountains and down through the arroyos with ferocious power and violence. So, from the mountains to our east to the river to the west we are cross currents of temporary tributaries feeding the Rio Grande.
There is a lesson in this.
If we do not practice, then as life happens, and life does happen, we will not be able to receive it. Ground that is hard, brittle, and lacks aeration is not porous. It cannot receive. The nourishing rain simply flows over it. Zazen helps us open ourselves. Mindfulness practice aerates the soil of our hearts. With this practice, as we receive the rains in our life, they flow through us and we can allow the nourishment of this life energy to support us.
The result is our ground is soft and pliable, not brittle and hard. We receive and give and our hearts and minds do not need the spines of the cacti to defend itself from predators, because as we love everyone, there are no enemies. In this way our heart/mind becomes medicine for the planet.
Be well.
Good Morning All,
The rainy season has come to the desert southwest. We usually can count on rainy afternoons over the next six weeks or so, maybe eight, if we are lucky. In the desert, rain is so uncommon the ground cannot receive it. Our rain is large, forceful drops that pound the ground, run off the mountains and down through the arroyos with ferocious power and violence. So, from the mountains to our east to the river to the west we are cross currents of temporary tributaries feeding the Rio Grande.
There is a lesson in this.
If we do not practice, then as life happens, and life does happen, we will not be able to receive it. Ground that is hard, brittle, and lacks aeration is not porous. It cannot receive. The nourishing rain simply flows over it. Zazen helps us open ourselves. Mindfulness practice aerates the soil of our hearts. With this practice, as we receive the rains in our life, they flow through us and we can allow the nourishment of this life energy to support us.
The result is our ground is soft and pliable, not brittle and hard. We receive and give and our hearts and minds do not need the spines of the cacti to defend itself from predators, because as we love everyone, there are no enemies. In this way our heart/mind becomes medicine for the planet.
Be well.