M and I are long back from our
annual vacation. We go the end of May, the first week in June, this year to
southern Italy.
The goal, of course, after each
trip aboard is to keep the above two words in mind. On vacation. Maybe it helps that I’ve always felt in New
York City as if I’ve come from away. It may sound like a line, but the phrase “boring
routine” lands on my ear like an indecipherable phrase in a foreign language.
It simply doesn’t pertain to my daily life.
Perhaps if I were in or near a place
of my birth then that feeling would be known to me. But it’s not the path that
I’m on so I can only surmise.
In Buddhism, the phrase that
pays is the beginner’s mind. If you’re got that, you tap the child in yourself, the
dog, all animals in fact. Seeing things as they are rather than as our
experienced (jaded) eye sees them.
So do what you can to be “on
vacation” every day. Put your mind to good use. It is something too beautiful
to go to waste.
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