Thursday, April 29, 2010
Perceiving the New, dropping the Old
Courage is harder than one thinks, or should I say that I thought. Fear even when it is blocking the sun's rays is easy to live with. It takes little effort to keep around and to adapt to. It seems one can go ones entire later life living with this companion. Even welcoming them. Why? Maybe for the most obvious reason; it keeps us away from the new. The unknown. Or so the mind believes. Courage is needed to accept the unknown, the same unknown that keeps popping up in those particular places and thoughts. Yet, it is easier to put them aside for the future, that doesn't ever come. I mean the future is constantly coming and going yet that moment of dropping habit never comes. But it can. Only in the now. Never in the future. What is it your New that you are avoiding? It may be as subltle as walking home a different path, yet it is not in that planned path that you decided to find the new. It is the moment that your eye is caught and you make that sublte turn. There it is!~ the new. Ever subtle but transformative.
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Dave, this is fantastic. In the spirit of "the new", as you have just defined it (brilliantly, and especially most poetically when you told where it actually appears and is avoided), come with me to Sangha; not to become a Buddhist, though you are a Buddha in your own right, but because it is the single best place to to discuss the things so very "Dave".
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