The cup half full, the cup half empty..or is it really the cup that is. Today I am taking a look at my cup. I see it half full, there are a few floaters... coffee grinds, a little dust that floated in. It's not perfect, however it is my cup and when it runneth over it feels great, when it gets a little empty its usually me imagining it is. Right now I'll just take a sip and spit out the dust. Life is beautiful with its potholes and potbellies.
Today my contentment is in watching my son sleep in during summer, fresh fragrant incense fills the room with healing and purifying the air. Crazy drill sounds permeate from above ... I am drinking chai coffee with fresh vanilla bean and spices and running off to a job job. It is the simple things to remember when we are doing something that may not be our favorite thing to be doing. I am grateful to know the difference and just be thankful.
My satisfaction lay in knowing that there is a way to sit within the expanse of all of the chaos, the highs and lows equal in their false sense of thinking we have arrived. It is so much about the journey ...its highs and its lows and how we choose to deal with it.
"Hundreds of stupid flies gather
On a piece of rotten meat,
Enjoying, they think, a delicious feast.
This image fits with the song
Of the myriads of foolish living beings
Who seek happiness in superficial pleasures;
In countless ways they try,
Yet I have never seen them satisfied."
The 7th Dalai Lama
Todays remedy for dissatisfaction is to try something you are afraid of and see what happens.
While you are on the journey notice how you are breathing, the thoughts that are coming up, the fear and anxiety around the thoughts....right there stop and breath, bring your awareness to the centre of your chest. Keep breathing until the feeling disappears.... notice that the fear is not real, the thoughts are imagined. Then take the leap ...do it..make the call, try a new step, take a flying leap into the unknown and be surprised. Nothing bad can happen ..only good. It's the liberation of freeing yourself that will be the reward whether you attain the goal or not.
Have a beautiful day and try a little absolute of rose and sandalwood oil to accompany your journey.
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