It has been said a picture is worth a thousand words. This one certainly is:
The photo was taken at 10:14 pm on Friday, December 6, 2019. I had been so focused on the 2000 piece jigsaw puzzle I was working that I did not notice I had on one sandal and one slipper. If this sensation, look, and experience went unnoticed, what else might I be missing?
In Buddhism for Beginners, The Noble Eightfold Path, Walpola Sri Wahula lists the benefits and elements of mindfulness.
1. Right understanding
2. Right thought
3. Right speech
4. Right action
5. Right livelihood
6. Right effort
7. Right mindfulness
8. Right concentration
Approximately 90 minutes before I snapped that photo, a friend completed his transition. His wife wrote the following morning:
“I was getting ready to spend another night with him when he just went away. I had told him a short time before, again, that it would be OK if he was ready to go. Thank you for the love and prayers. He went in peace and now he is in great joy.”
Yesterday in the instruction/sharing time before meditation we had a very lively conversation about view. I am reminded of something Abraham Hicks said to a man who reported feeling like he was running out of time. The man went on to share that he did not believe in an afterlife or reincarnation. He felt that these views were a cop out.
No wonder the guy felt stress…
Take a few minutes to explore your own view via Abraham’s response to the man who said I Don’t Believe in Afterlife.
Perhaps we are in a place where it is possible to allow our intellect to enjoy right understanding. Perhaps continuity of consciousness is that right understanding. Perhaps this changes our experience of life and death.
Perhaps—just perhaps—we really do have one foot in one shoe and the other foot in another…
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