God-As-It-Is

With palms together,

Good Morning Everyone,

 

This morning I can feel the cool desert air, humid from a few raindrops or the Kessin's automatic sprinklers. I see in my morning email pictures of Grandson Tate on a pony. Joy!  It is a good feeling.  

 

Practice feeling your environment.  Sit with your eyes closed and experience.  There will be sounds, smells, and sensations on your skin.  There will be thoughts about these.  Notice them and let them slide away. You just want to experience, not think about the experience.

 

I feel the cool air, the darkness of dawn, I notice the sounds of the refrigerator and the computer.  I hear Zeesa, the Kessin's dog at my feet. Her breath is free and easy. As my attention sharpens, many other sounds emerge and my brain races to identify them.  I witness the race but don't seek the finish. Sounds are best as sounds.

 

Finish is false conclusion of a deluded state of mind. Nothing ever "finishes";  there is always, always, a continuous unfolding in life's eternal process.

 

So, in this exercise we see the universe.  We experience God-as-it-is.

 

God is "don't know" mind. Pure experience. Practice to be there now.

 

As a family update:

 

We said goodbye to Jacob yesterday as he had to travel back to Santa Fe.  He has an opportunity there to partner in a restaurant. He really wants to built a restaurant bistro here in Las Cruces, but that will be put off for a year.  In the interim, we will find an appropriate property here. Later yesterday Jason, Maggie, Olivia, Judy, and I took a hike up to Dripping Springs.  Raging Springs would be more like it! What is normally a drip over a cliff into a pond below is now a full fledged water fall.  It is such a beautiful site.  I can tell that I haven't been exercising as I should these last three weeks. The hike was hard on me. Today, we will check with the builder and the financial institution to see when we can close and move into the new house. It shouldn't be long. Still, I'll return to the Refuge this afternoon.  I do like the quiet, serenity there.

 

Be well.