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An online marketplace for selling and buying all things handmade!

It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home. I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on my list home made gifts.


Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Saturday, July 09, 2005

Attachment

Learning the art of detachment has been one of my biggest obstacles in life.

There are situations in my most recent days that are bringing this struggle to the surface.

I have found myself behaving in ways to bring about results which appear to be satisfactory to me. I will say things I believe another wants to hear. I will act in ways which I think are beneficial to a specific sequence.


I realize that what I was searching for was not inspired by masterly action, but by my desire towards self-gratification.


This is a very powerful witnessing moment for myself, that I need to remain present with.


I was speaking with a friend about my lack of decision making skills. I am currently in a delicate dilemma of what to do with a delicate matter. I could choose Option A - which is fueled by hope and love. I could choose Option B - which is fueled by non-attachment. There is a force within me that feels the need to make a decision. Which way to go?

Why can't I decide?


He said, "Why do you have to choose at all?"

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