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With palms together,
Good Morning Everyone,
The sun is already peeking over the mountains, yet the air still remains cool and refreshing. This is a wonderful time of year in the desert. Later today the sun will have had time to warm the air and perhaps an air conditioner will be needed. My Little Honey seems particularly sensitive to heat of late.
We have decided to sell the condominium we are living in and buy a house. Houses are plentiful here just now and it is a buyers market. We hope to sell the condo as quickly as possible, though in such a market it may take awhile. So we need to find a house where the owner will agree to a contingency contract.
Patience and a willingness to stay on task are essential ingredients in this process, as well as a willingness to learn. My Little Honey asked me to put the condo for sale by owner on a website under that name. It was a very interesting experience to try to cost out the sale price, get the website forms completed, "stage" the rooms, take digital pictures and post them. We did it all, but two rooms.
I also placed ads in the local newspaper for both the condo for sale and the condo for lease.
Such a life.
Zen is in the details of living. Just when we think we can go on autopilot, we are taught that such a thing is not a good idea. The teaching does not come from a study of books, but rather from a willingness to be self-observant. We ask, as a feeling arises, 'what's this'? We notice that as we go through a process we are, indeed, going through a process and as such, it is not the conclusion of the process that is really very important, but rather that the process at whatever point is exactly our life.
When this is our attitude, everything is a teacher. And in everything, then, the Infinite teaches us. If we are so busy looking at the ends of things we miss this and it is this that we say is being asleep.
So lets all wake up.
Be well.
Good Morning Everyone,
The sun is already peeking over the mountains, yet the air still remains cool and refreshing. This is a wonderful time of year in the desert. Later today the sun will have had time to warm the air and perhaps an air conditioner will be needed. My Little Honey seems particularly sensitive to heat of late.
We have decided to sell the condominium we are living in and buy a house. Houses are plentiful here just now and it is a buyers market. We hope to sell the condo as quickly as possible, though in such a market it may take awhile. So we need to find a house where the owner will agree to a contingency contract.
Patience and a willingness to stay on task are essential ingredients in this process, as well as a willingness to learn. My Little Honey asked me to put the condo for sale by owner on a website under that name. It was a very interesting experience to try to cost out the sale price, get the website forms completed, "stage" the rooms, take digital pictures and post them. We did it all, but two rooms.
I also placed ads in the local newspaper for both the condo for sale and the condo for lease.
Such a life.
Zen is in the details of living. Just when we think we can go on autopilot, we are taught that such a thing is not a good idea. The teaching does not come from a study of books, but rather from a willingness to be self-observant. We ask, as a feeling arises, 'what's this'? We notice that as we go through a process we are, indeed, going through a process and as such, it is not the conclusion of the process that is really very important, but rather that the process at whatever point is exactly our life.
When this is our attitude, everything is a teacher. And in everything, then, the Infinite teaches us. If we are so busy looking at the ends of things we miss this and it is this that we say is being asleep.
So lets all wake up.
Be well.