Okay, I love the point, so I borrowed the “Buddhism Schmuddhism,” thing from Lama Surya Das. His point? The point? Don’t bother becoming a Buddhist, or becoming anything at all, for that matter. Just wake up to the way things are now, to the way you are now. Wake up to your life. Grow your inner goodness. Be the wide open knowing at your center. Fall in love with and share your gifts. Live who you truly are. Not tomorrow, not last week, live right now.
We just entered our first 6-week practice period here at Sweeping Heart Zen. Before we started the period, people who formally entered this time of invigorated practice submitted what’s called a Practice Period Intention Form. One questions on the form asks, “What theme or issue do you intend to focus on during this Practice Period?” I intend to deeply rest and relax in awareness.
In my last post I wrote that you, and I, and the earth that sustains us are so incredibly improbable as to be next to impossible. Furthermore, I wrote that what’s next to impossible is a miracle. Therefore I concluded, we and the earth are miracles. A reasonable corollary follows from this conclusion, my miraculous friend. It’s that since you are a miracle, even before you fix breakfast, everything you do is an extremely rare and wondrous event in the universe. You and everything about you is a wonder, a one of a kind thing. So, don’t hesitate to feel good about paying attention to what you do. When walking, just walk. When eating, relax, savor, just eat. Continue reading Perform a Miracle! When Walking, Just Walk