Feet: still wet . . .

In Thor's mailbox as this week celebrating the Valentines draws to a close . . .

. . . Pema Chödrön filed a note with some advice for us as we negotiate the eddies of The Way:

. . .we can approach our lives as an experiment. In the next moment, in the next hour, we could choose to stop, to slow down, to be still for a few seconds. We could experiment with interrupting the usual chain reaction and not spin off in the usual way. We don’t need to blame someone else, and we don’t need to blame ourselves. When we’re in a tight spot, we can experiment with not strengthening the aggression habit and see what happens. -- Pema Chödrön

On our attempts to swim against the stream of The Way, Chӧgyam Trungpa observed:

. . .the American spiritual neurosis, both individual and group, has become, in some sense, a world monument. It deserves a gold medal. So, introducing disciplines for seeing the world in a very simple, ordinary, and basic way seems helpful and refreshing, and very much needed. . .and that’s why the meditative tradition of mindfulness is so appropriate for this country, as well as the rest of the Western Hemisphere. – Chӧgyam Trungpa

If you have become aware that there must be something more in a life than just external rewards and a societal notion of success, then you have taken the first step on a path that the wise among us have walked before. Many paths lead nowhere, yet we are told we must walk them until, standing still, we see the truth beneath our feet.

The Watercourse Way. Our feet. Wet. – From the Friday, June 11, 2021 blog.