Photo 1: Pink sunrise on white snow and dark skies.
Photo 2: Fuchsia clouds through the tree branches. Breathtaking gold brooch for 5.30am meditation!
Today was a great day. All the restlessness, or weirdness I felt yesterday stopped today. Snow falling stopped today. Heart-beating depletion stopped today. ‘Lazy days’ stopped today (‘lazy days’ are light-scheduled days, after TET celebrations). I woke up at 5.10am to be at 5.25am at the Big Hall for sitting meditation and chanting with the brothers. By the time we finished (1 hour), the sun was rising as a fuchsia stripe in the horizon, on the blue mountains, seen as through transparent paper. I survived the hour crossed-legged on the floor, and my legs and back too! I was kind of proud and definitely happy! Of course my mind was everywhere, like a frog –as the nun had said yesterday. But, bearing in mind it was my first time, I was happy with what I had achieved. It was everywhere although not in nonsense places: praying by times, praying in gratefulness and for my family and loved ones, getting assaulted by things to do, going back to respiration: observing it in mindfulness.
Why it felt like such a good day?
Quote of the day:
“Yes, your difficulties and your problems are genuine, they are real, but they will also pass.
The conditions for someone to be perfect are impermanent. The conditions for someone to be imperfect are impermanent. Do not be attached to either.”
[From “IF NOT NOW, WHEN?” by Tsem Tulku Rinpoche, www.kechara.com. Kechara is a non-profit Buddhist organization.]
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