Wow, I guess I'm falling short of my blogging goals.
Life is busy, full and rich (when I allow myself to notice that it is.)
Just want to say this, short and sweet. The secret to your Arete, is so simple-- follow your delights.
They are yours and yours alone. The more you notice them, honor them, focus on them, expand them-- the closer and closer you move to living the life that is truly yours and no one else's. Just for today, carry a piece of paper and jot down everything, big, little, stupid, profound-- EVERYTHING that delights you.
Look at your list before you go to sleep, and maybe even again in the morning.
Do it again tomorrow and you're two days into the 21 that it takes to form a habit. A habit of being delighted, and noticing that you are. How wonderful is that?
Maybe collect the pages inot a folder of delights, or... the options are endless!
Love you,
-R
Friday, March 26, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Walking last night in the light rain, such a treat in southern California, looking at houses and noticing what I said to Tomas. "I like this, I don't like that, that's nice, ooh look at that, that's cool, that needs work..." a steady stream of my opinions, as if they mattered.
I wonder about it, this constant judging...
It seems the truly Zen approach would be to take everything as it is, accept it, embrace it. Someone wise once said that "peace is the absence of against-ness" which seems somehow to include the absence of judgment, and I do agree...
but only up to a point.
We are human, supposedly made in God's image, and if so, what is the god-like thing about us except to create? To imagine something that is not there, or imagine something is different, and then make it so.
To build, improve, create-- any or all of it requires noticing what you do and don't like, what you exactly and precisely prefer. Without that noticing, choosing, judging, there is no need built up to create or do anything.
No pressure to express the self, except through the choices, the judgments we make about what we do like or don't.
It is the only way to know what we truly want to cause to be, isn't it?
I wonder about it, this constant judging...
It seems the truly Zen approach would be to take everything as it is, accept it, embrace it. Someone wise once said that "peace is the absence of against-ness" which seems somehow to include the absence of judgment, and I do agree...
but only up to a point.
We are human, supposedly made in God's image, and if so, what is the god-like thing about us except to create? To imagine something that is not there, or imagine something is different, and then make it so.
To build, improve, create-- any or all of it requires noticing what you do and don't like, what you exactly and precisely prefer. Without that noticing, choosing, judging, there is no need built up to create or do anything.
No pressure to express the self, except through the choices, the judgments we make about what we do like or don't.
It is the only way to know what we truly want to cause to be, isn't it?
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