With feelings of discomfort in the body and an agitated mind, the day’s experience seemed to mirror the narrative.
Healthy leaves lay scattered on the ground as if torn from trees. The distant sound of children eventually gave light to the damage.
Baxter, who’d only just narrowly avoided a speeding cyclist, suffered a sting from a wasp. He tentatively approached walking low to the ground as if to somehow duck beneath the pain, the wasp still pinned to his side.
The discomfort of the body, the reckless cyclist, the unfriendly wasp, and the unruly children wielding whacking sticks were all agitations that posed challenges to an unjudging mind state.
Witnessing unwholesome thoughts of the mind and the resistance to discomfort in the body eventually gave way to the familiar appreciation of nature. The sound of acorns dropping from trees and their feel underfoot, like walking over marbles.
Today’s insight:
There’s no exemption from aversion, to watch it arise, and pass with non-attachment is no easy task.
