Running for Your Life: On Vacation

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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