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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Thursday, December 29, 2005

Tommorrow

I wonder if one is at all earnest as to why we cannot exist in peace, in compassion, with another human being. Why we hurt each other. I wonder if one truly comprehends that by not abandoning the animosity, hate, disputes and struggles now - it will be like that tomorrow. And tomorrow can extend for years and years, but it still remains as tomorrow. I wonder if one realizes that. How many tomorrows have you allowed these struggles and quarrels to go on for? How many more tomorrows will you allow these quarrels and struggles to live in?

In the mirror of our relationships we can see ourselves exactly as we are. But most of us are petrified to see what we are in the mirror of our relationships, to reveal our true selves. In this fear - guilt, resistance and escape unfold. Only when we are free of the conflict within ourselves are we able to be in relationships of compassion with anyone.

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During meditation last night I again had the experience of seeing the brilliant white light. At times I felt as though I was streaming through the galaxy as blazing smaller lights shimmered in the distance. I slept quite peacefully and comforting lucid dreams impregnated my sleep. However, this morning I awoke in a state of misery. Knowing that all I see is fragmented images of my illusionary reality I want nothing but to sit in silence.

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