Entering the Void with the Eyes Open

Miniature Blue Spruce (June 15, 2012, Anchorage, AK)
Miniature Blue Spruce (June 23, 2012, Anchorage, AK)

Lack of patience is merely an untamed mind, an unruly mind.

Our miniature blue spruce will take years to reach its full height of 8 feet maximum. Brian has been so patient. He wanted a tree to put Christmas lights on, yet it will be years before it will be able to be seen from the street (this winter it was totally under the snow).

I am sometimes impatient when I begin to meditate. It’s hard to allow my mind the time to slow down. Yet when I persist, I enter a state of being where impatience is totally absent. I am content to sit in my spot forever. At the end of the allotted time I DO get up. When that happens, I am able, more and more, to meditate with the eyes open, as I go about my day.

 Patience is the mother of will.  — G.I. Gurdjieff

So it was the little spruce that inspired my meditation this morning: Meditation isn’t a pastime; it’s a baseline.

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