Etsy

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, October 29, 2005

Blazing Sun

This afternoon was most wonderful. Spent the afternoon in the park, enjoying the warm sunshine. We rested up against an enormous willow tree together. The air was very calm. There was a savored silence between us two; seeing the same thing and feeling the same thing. It was here that I experienced that even in moments of silence, sound can be found. When we reflectively listen in those moments of silence, even during meditation, in that very silence you find sound. There is no division in silence and sound. In hearing the sound, there is silence and within silence the sound can be found.

Meditation is awesome. I cannot recount the joy that manifests during my sits. In the past, I have had visions of pin-point lights which were erratic during meditation. In the last few days these lights have amplified in size and have considerable likeness to a brilliant white sun. These large flashes of light are frequent but come and go so quickly. They last but for a bare moment and then they fade away. Yet I am left with incredible sensations of joy and happiness.

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