Cost

Which costs more-- paying your bills or paying attention?

Who are you?

Who are we really? Are we willing to see that which we have suspected is true in spite if what some of those around us have tried to convince us is untrue?

It's 5 o'clock

Somewhere...

Falling

All things being equal - a grain of sand falls just as hard as a grand piano.

Sunday

Do what inspires you. If nothing inspires you, change a habit. That habit is probably what is keeping you from inspiration. It may not seem like it, but holding on to a habit is more work than we realize. Changing a habit creates space for something new.

Shake it up

I like having my kitchen all torn up right now. It's like the work we do in yoga. We churn things around, shine a light on those hidden dark spaces, clean them out, and end up with a brand new kitchen!

What is really liberating about having the house cut up into little weird habitable zones, is that all my previous patterning is broken up. I'm forced to do something different and as a result, i'm different. I am seizing this opportunity to explore other ways of occupying space - whether it be physical, esoteric, external or internal.

In a sense, it's like fasting. Changing the routine to create space and awareness for something new to occur.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

and today was a very blueberry day.

Sun and Moon Projections

SUN CONSUMING THE MOON

aspects of svadistha/water element  (second chakra) – it has 2 moons: internal and external

            Internal – unconscious

            External – conscious

The water element represents our earthly instincts: sleep, sex, sustance, survival

We are mostly water, as is our planet, after all! Think about what affects the tides. You are a mini-earth and those same tides occur on your planet. So – see the planet, you get to see who you are.

God created us to see what it is. We are the projection of God. We are what God looks like. Of course, we can only see what we can understand, but there are micro-macrocosms everywhere to help us out with that understanding. As we build the sun to consume the moon – when the sun is below the moon, it dries those attachments we are no longer at the mercy of the gravitational pull of the physical plane. The laws of the physical plane cease to have impact. 

Yesterday's blog

Yesterday
All my blogging seems so far away
I thought my blog was here to stay
Cuz I forgot to publish yesterday's

Here it is:

When given the a cup of warm nuts, which do you eat first?
A) almonds
B) pecans
C) cashews
D) pistachio
E) none of the above

Remodeling the Kitchen

We left for vacation the day they started. Walls being cut, plumbing being plumbed. What would greet us when we arrived a week later?

Holes were cut, plumbing was plumbed, wiring revealed, and habitual pathways destroyed. What used to be a quick run up and down the stairs is no longer quick. Weird plastic sheets hang from the ceilings, taped to the walls. I pass through these area dividers with a similar caution one might have moving through beaded curtains. Like a gypsy I explore the new, less than efficient layout for living possibilities, given there are bare walls where the kitchen used to be.

Since the house is split into 3 half-ish levels, and because we moved the frig into the garage, the laundry room seemed like the best place to set up camp.

There is something creepy, yet oddly poetic about doing the food prep and cleanup in the bathroom.

The cycle of life continues, and for the next few weeks, I will be reminded of that almost continually. I wonder what odd inspirations will come from that reminder.

Conditioning

The air in the airport must be in excellent shape cuz it feels quite conditioned on here. Brrrr

Vairagya

Letting go of something before the pain of not letting it go becomes greater than that which is to be let go - that is the "higher" form of vairagya. It's when we let go of something from a place of knowing. That place where in your heart of hearts it is the best thing for you. This is not the same as "I should let this go because it's bad for me." It is letting go from an inner knowing and desire, not from a social thought construct or group belief.

For me, this is more difficult than letting go of something when you've "had enough" of it. It's that letting go before your physical, mental, or emotional threshold is reached.

This aspect of vairagya is a speedier approach, but can only go into effect when the level of consciousness is able to discern the difference between inner knowing and outer constructs.