Insight Meditation

Greetings Dear Friends:
This last month in particular I have been cocooned in bed in a medley of pain, opiates and dharma. I reflected this morning on time and how different it is when there are no outside activities that mark it’s passing such as going shopping, visiting friends or going to the bank. I have watched the departure of day into night, the moon’s traverse across the pine tree, half of it visible above the neighbors’ house, and into the lightness of day. I feel the sunshine warm me so that I undress and then dress as it passes into the afternoon and out of range of my windows. And yet there has been timelessness to these days and their unfolding. I can’t say it has always been noticed in clarity, it hasn’t mattered because even in the foggiest of minds returning to meet myself has carried me as if on a tide. A tide that has highlighted the beauty surrounding me: The flowers so sweetly and intimately dying in the vase opposite my bed, they are day lilies that have reached out and touched my wall in their orange blessings to make sure I have noticed their life and especially all those of you who have visited called, brought me food or helped me with chores. Your presence and generosity have beamed upon me who you are …each one of you…as beautiful. So I wish for us all, this New Year not bad backs! But surrender into moments of not doing and touches us of timelessness and beauty. Love Arinna