Pushing The Blossom

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g darkness.Humans are the only beasts who watch a clock. We are the only beings who decide we are too young or too old or just right for a certain thing.There is a teaching in Buddhism that we should seek to find our lotus before winter. It means we need to bloom — rise up through the muck and muddy waters of Life and break through the surface to show our true selves to the light. And we need to do it before winter comes along and the growing season robs us of our chance to be that beautiful flower.Often the thing which holds us down in the muck most is the desire to grow our lotus. And isn’t that the most ironic of lessons to learn? As we long for enlightenment — to reach goals and achieve — we find ourselves continually dissatisfied.We keep

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‘desiring’ more, better, higher states of having/doing/being. And we keep blowing past them on and on. Because Desire is it’s own addiction.Desire — even desire to Become — is the attachment to the muck which will keep us stuck. It’s only through letting go of this attachment to any sort of outcome will our lotus be able to rise to the light.It’s only when we take ourselves off the clock, and come back to This Moment can we be free to float towards the surface. It’s only when we can sit with who we are without the Desire to have/do/be anything more can we move past our struggle. It’s only when we learn to embrace the muck can we see the light. It’s only when we stop trying to push the blossom can we feel our petals start to open.Namaste.</article></body>

Pushing The Blossom

Find your lotus before winter

Time is completely a Human construct.

My birds don’t know it’s 10:30 in the morning or 3 in the afternoon. They sing at dawn, grateful to have survived the night. And they sing themselves to sleep at dusk— a prayer to The Universe for their safety in the coming darkness.

Humans are the only beasts who watch a clock. We are the only beings who decide we are too young or too old or just right for a certain thing.

There is a teaching in Buddhism that we should seek to find our lotus before winter. It means we need to bloom — rise up through the muck and muddy waters of Life and break through the surface to show our true selves to the light. And we need to do it before winter comes along and the growing season robs us of our chance to be that beautiful flower.

Often the thing which holds us down in the muck most is the desire to grow our lotus. And isn’t that the most ironic of lessons to learn? As we long for enlightenment — to reach goals and achieve — we find ourselves continually dissatisfied.

We keep ‘desiring’ more, better, higher states of having/doing/being. And we keep blowing past them on and on. Because Desire is it’s own addiction.

Desire — even desire to Become — is the attachment to the muck which will keep us stuck. It’s only through letting go of this attachment to any sort of outcome will our lotus be able to rise to the light.

It’s only when we take ourselves off the clock, and come back to This Moment can we be free to float towards the surface. It’s only when we can sit with who we are without the Desire to have/do/be anything more can we move past our struggle. It’s only when we learn to embrace the muck can we see the light. It’s only when we stop trying to push the blossom can we feel our petals start to open.

Namaste.