Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
Who was it who said, "It is the wave's place to realize it is the ocean"? This realization makes meditation simply a matter of relaxing into "Peaceful abiding, here, now." It can't be about achieving anything, accomplishing anything, doing anything. The wave doesn't achieve, accomplish, do anything to be the ocean. Meditation doesn't achieve, accomplish, do anything to be the Buddha. What's with striving? We already ARE! What more is there to BE? We are the wave striving to be the sea. What sense does that make? How hard could that be?
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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