Allowing things find you

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This morning dawned misty and foggy here in Kildare, restricting the view to just a few metres, making travel a bit more slow.  This can be good. It is not always  healthy that we move as fast  or as far as we want to. There is a place for slowing down,  making space and listening.  Some things are only learnt that way, despite our desire to be always in command.

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow.

WB Yeats, The Lake Isle of Innisfree.

“But it isn’t easy,” said Pooh. “Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get

They’re things which get you

And all you can do is to go where they can find you“

A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner

Where else

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If you are unable to find the truth right where you are,

where else do you expect to find it?

Dōgen

Appreciating life

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The overall tenor of mindfulness practice is gentle,
appreciative and nurturing.
Another way to think of it would be heartfulness.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness Meditation for Everyday Life

Fully here

calligraphy_circle_black(2)Just actualize all time as all being.

There is nothing extra

Dōgen, Uji

Blackbird singing

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Some events, like hearing a bird singing early this morning, make it easy to be fully present. We are not remembering another bird, another moment.

I do not know which to prefer
The beauty of inflections
or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after

Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

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How it is right now

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What does it mean to see each other exactly as we are? Past memories about ourselves and each other are not how we are right now. Memory is an incomplete and inaccurate recording of the past. Now is something entirely different. Quietly looking and listening now is not memory. It is an entirely different mode of being, It is a cleansing of perception.

Toni Packer, The Work of this Moment