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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 22, 2006

Pefect Day

Saturday morning. Hangover from last nights tomfoolery isn't as brutal as I suspected it would be. Just a few minutes past 9 am. My zafu, well warmed and used from my morning meditation sit. The kitties rubbing up against my legs and hurling scratchy meows in my direction in an effort to make my way downstairs to the kitchen to feed them their breakfast. Naked in the kitchen. Doesn't happen very often. Probably not such a great idea either, with the almost-wall sized bare window that faces onto a park. But I'm in a exhibitionist mood, feeling free and unhibited in my shell. Last weekend was filled with shopping, the weekend before camping with the group and I've decided that today I am spending time with myself. Though most mornings at this hour the sun is beating through the big windows which open the house, today is not one of those days. There is a soft, cool breeze which invites herself through the open windows. I can hear the rain drops hitting the patio set in the backyard. The birds singing their songs. The sky is grey. Couch: check. Lots of pillows: check. Cup o' chai: check. Random book picked up from Seekers last weekend: check. A perfect day for silence. Life is good to me.

Probably not a good idea to make another night of dancing & beverages, but how can I pass up that soul soothing feel of smooth jazz and sugary drinks. Off to make myself foxy.

Comments on "Pefect Day"

 

Blogger CE said ... (4:40 PM) : 

Two less lonely people in the world.

 

Blogger I Am This said ... (9:10 AM) : 

I prefer the state of aloneness, than loneliness ;)

 

Blogger CE said ... (12:31 PM) : 

I know exactly what you mean. I too don't really like company; I tend to separate myself from the world very often. It's often painful to listen to some people talk, you know what I mean. I don't mean to say I am saintly; I prefer to daydream most of the time. ;>)
Nevertheless, I force myself to listen sometimes, not that I am in conflict with myself. I consider this as a form of meditation. Just listening without judgement and sometimes joining in.

 

Blogger I Am This said ... (11:34 PM) : 

Where we are conscious and aware without the barriers of ego, we are in meditation. Be it eyes open or closed.

 

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