"The dharma that is taught and the dharma that is experienced are descriptions of how to use your life to wake you up rather than put you to sleep. And if you choose to spend the rest of your life trying to find out what awake means and what asleep means, I think you might attain enlightenment. "
Frost covered the ground this morning as my sneakers slid along with the dogs. Lightly covered with fragile glaze, grass lay in giant cupcake mounds tumbled about in various directions. Ice began to form on the pond over night. The morning light hit the last colors of fall encouraging the browns into gold’s; the colors sent me back twenty-five years; light filters through the kitchen window highlighting the same fall hues in our son's hair. I hear him joyously speak; “Mom,” I clearly see his little hands, twirling fingers animated with information, wispy lavender nails, yellow fuzzy footed pajamas, and smell the warming aromas that embodied his nature, his tasks, his processes. From the corners of this moment his older sister chats knowingly behind blonde bangs. The light carries an unpretentious, inclusive spirit of love. Life is this moment, within this moment is life, the ordinary is extraordinary, leaving nothing else to desire, to realize, no finer riches to achieve. One step at a time in providence we continue.
Together We Walk As One,
Together We Walk As One,
Zen Dog
Rob with Lexie, his business partner and terrific girlfriend, are currently employed, by the owners of the sailing vessel Rivendell, [out of Holland]. They are somewhere in the Atlantic, sailing the ARC Race, then will continue to circumnavigate aboard Rivendell for the next year or more. Connect to ARC Blog.
Dear Zen Dog Sam, your morning walk in the woods filled me with a splendid experience in my heart.Being a nature lover as well as a animal lover, I strolled the beauty of the early morning frost. Feeling the Earth welcome your visit in Dawn's early light. What a gift the seasons offer us. To pause in the details gives gratitude to our day, our lives, our moment, our oneness within.Thank you for the richness of sharing your morning steps as we enter a new season. Freshly, approaching the creation of new experiences. We carry the preserved precious memories that still bring a smile to our hearts of "oneness now" .
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Your comments and encouragement Frances, inspires. Thank-you for sharing such open grace and kindness. K
ReplyDeleteI loved this piece, it reminds me of how light sparks a memory, sometimes more that words or even smells.. the light in a small kitchen as a child never will leave me.. prisms in the windows!! NOW I have the prisms many many years later.. ~~smile~~ Thank you for stirring my memories today.. gigi
ReplyDeleteYou are right gigi, the light carries many memories and feelings with it.
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