Good morning groovy souls!
I got up an hour early, and that worked well for me!
From this mornings journal:
Time boggles me. It flows with ease, and it is both in abundance and scarcity, at any given moment. I do not think it is so much a problem of time, but a problem of everything wanting to happen at the same time, or needing to happen. The routine and rigor help me greatly. My days flow, but they flow rapidly.
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Onward, toward the dawn!
In my world, time is not a real construct. It is a man made notion in which the natural world does not participate.
A squirrel does not list all the backyards he must search. A salmon does not anticipate the length of its upstream race. A Monarch is not bothered by the brevity of its life.
All of nature lives in the Now.
My life is most rich when I too languish in the Now.
However brief.
@LnzyHou @LnzyHou I don't know if time is real or not. I suspect that every moment that has ever happened is happening even now. It's our perception that moves through those moments in a linear form.
In my faith, we have the concept of Orlag.
Consider a river. That river is always going to take you to a certain destination. Orlag are the moments where you can choose your place on the river, and the current you are being carried upon.
I think time, and linear perception of it is like that.
@LnzyHou @NiveusLepus Then you need to go all Beach Boy's and "be true to your school". ☮️
@NiveusLepus
Still sorting out the merry go round of my last week. The expectations of time crippled me. And nearly broke my back.
This “should” be done.
This is too late.
This is too early.
Simply riding the waves of Now would saved me much of the self-imposed suffering I created.
A very wise zen master taught me life is all about school.
We fool ourselves to think otherwise.