Recipes for Life
Sunday, 31 March 2013
Tea time
When in doubt what to do.... Go for a walk....... Make a pot of tea........ And for me, knit or read. Then at least I have done something while wondering what to do. What about you?
Saturday, 30 March 2013
Friday, 29 March 2013
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
What if?
In our world we are oriented to get things done. To be better. To fix the world. To fix ourselves. To improve. To achieve. The thought of all that makes me feel "less than" already. This is the world of the ego, the little me that wants to be better and more special than all the other little mees. It is a world that is always going from unfinished to finished. A world that feels incomplete and is looking for completeness.
What if, instead of going from incomplete to complete, that we saw the world as already complete and just moving to another complete?
Uncomplete to complete or
Complete to complete?
Every moment a complete moment with no changes necessary. It already exists - why couldn't it be seen as complete? Actually, what else could it be except complete? There is no such thing as half a moment, or an unperfect moment. The moment is the moment just as it is. So we could as easily live from one complete moment to the next complete moment. Think how much easier it would be to live this way. Never needing to "fix" anything.
Just like a wave arises on the ocean, in completeness, and recedes, another arises, each one complete. Because it exists. We don't try to fix the wave and make it a better one or a bigger one or a softer one. Why are we any different?
What if, instead of going from incomplete to complete, that we saw the world as already complete and just moving to another complete?
Uncomplete to complete or
Complete to complete?
Every moment a complete moment with no changes necessary. It already exists - why couldn't it be seen as complete? Actually, what else could it be except complete? There is no such thing as half a moment, or an unperfect moment. The moment is the moment just as it is. So we could as easily live from one complete moment to the next complete moment. Think how much easier it would be to live this way. Never needing to "fix" anything.
Just like a wave arises on the ocean, in completeness, and recedes, another arises, each one complete. Because it exists. We don't try to fix the wave and make it a better one or a bigger one or a softer one. Why are we any different?
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Leftover cranberry sauce.
I cleaned my fridge today.....you know how it goes.....you find forgotten food way back there lurking in the corners. I made a vegetable stock with leftover bits of veggies. And I found a jar of homemade cranberry sauce from Christmas time. I heated it up and poured it over ice cream. Oh my! Is it ever good!
I had it for dessert and then I thought about it all evening. I wanted more since I had lots of the sauce left, hmmm, well, that's my excuse, don't want it go bad. I went for a walk so I could wear off the first bowl.....here is my second bowlful. My evening snack.
Sometimes things that lurk in dark corners are unexpected gold. You just have to treat them differently.
I had it for dessert and then I thought about it all evening. I wanted more since I had lots of the sauce left, hmmm, well, that's my excuse, don't want it go bad. I went for a walk so I could wear off the first bowl.....here is my second bowlful. My evening snack.
Sometimes things that lurk in dark corners are unexpected gold. You just have to treat them differently.
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
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