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Oooh this sounds hard to keep up for a very long period, though I can see how it enhances an appreciation of earths beauty, I have many quiet moments like this, then duty calls like now I have to get lunch for my mum who i am carer for and that takes thought. If it were me I would need to be a hermit to achieve this.
It can be difficult, but this is why it's called practice!
Yes I understand the responsibilities of daily life ( I run two businesses, sing in a band and create this daily post) and we all fall victim to the “to do's” and needs of others. Yet these are the perfect opportunities to lose ourself in what must be done without over thinking it or analysis.
Like great athletes who lose themselves in the performance, when we cease thinking about being a great athlete (or mother, or partner, etc) and simply become one we tend to give our best without thought. We become the action, we become engaged with the activity and move from concepts to doing.
In the end with patience and skill, this becomes second nature and happiness abounds through our actions and not our thoughts!
Thanks for the comments and your poetry is beautiful!
Peace and Love, Jim
thanx so much for this, Jim. I am at a place where this IS what i am experiencing, and it is beyond words, or thought even. Just “being” for the moment, a part of it all, is simply…divine!
sincerely
rich
like, you can't tell the dancer from the dance…