This piece marks the beginning of a new series of blogs on some of the least acknowledged but most common sense fundamentals of healthy living.
Winter is a good time to begin this series. It’s when nature returns to the bare essentials. The fruit has all dropped. The flowers long past closed up and shriveled. We would do well to mimic this inward turning. Unplugging more, quieting down, and getting in touch with the life energy which sinks down through the rocks, bones, and still waters, down to the essence of all things.
Himalayas at dawn
I love to meditate. It’s a delightful state of peaceful oneness and all the more so when infused with the wish that all may share in that state. That everyone may have comfortable surroundings, a warm, safe, cozy, and protected home. Nourishing food and supportive friends. Freedom from fear, wanting, dangerous conditions. Access to health care, access to free expression and democratic representation. Freedom from all war, including so called “just” wars.
I know that I can’t change all these things with a wish or the snap of my fingers, but if I pray – which is to say – hold an inner vision of how I see the future unfolding – that reality moves closer, a droplet of peace merging into the ocean of human consciousness. And the vision is a pre-requisite for clarity of action. Action with noble purpose.
These blogs will be intentionally short. Words can be created into masterpieces - powerful, beautiful, majestic snow capped peaks of virtuous language. However, we must remember to set out into the landscape and walk up the mountains…..to step into the peaceful silence beyond words….to seek the understanding beyond concepts. And then dedicate that towards the welfare of all living beings.
Easier said than done. Effort in the beginning, middle, and end of the journey meets with its just reward.
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