Well, there are so many little ceremonies to open and close meditation sessions that I wore out that first little prayer and I felt I needed a new one.
I also feel that while the studies on "the tree of life" are quite useful to me for insight, they are only part of the process. More and more, I feel that a very important aspect of life is to disengage from my over active mind. This mostly means not rethinking the same ideas over and over and over again. These ideas are basically related to only two things:
I'm either going over stuff from the past that troubles me (that I have not "accepted/resolved" in some way),
OR, I'm going over things that I want to do in the future but they really don't need to be dealt with now.
I'm sure it is usually better to just leave those things alone (along with all their associated stresses) and to try to focus on living in the present.
So, the prayer is:
May my concerns for future suns wait there quietly in the East.
And may my thoughts of past suns sleep peacefully in the West
And may I let today's sun guide me as I strive to do my best.
Corny I know, but that's the space I am in at present :)
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First couple of hundred posts are from my "motorcycle odyssey" from Vancouver, North and South through the Americas. ... Then there are a few dozen while I spent three years earning enough money to go riding again, And then some more posts while I went moto-touring through Africa, and now I'm back in Vancouver holding down a regular job again ( and hating it as expected ) :) ... The posts cover topics from both my external and internal wanderings. Enjoy :)
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- Grant
- Me... Well, I'm currently back in the groove as a regular person with a 9-5 Engineering job for the next few years... So, normal domestic stuff for now and not much blogging... Prervious motorbike adventures are in the older blog postings. For anyone who's interested, Ill keep sharing my babblings, rantings, and musings here in my blog. good luck!