From The Perspective Of Meditation, Every State

"what Is My Job On The Planet?" Is One Question We Might Do Well To Ask Ourselves Over And Over Again. Otherwise, We May Wind Up Doing Somebody Else's Job And Not Even Know It. And What's More, That Somebody Else Might Be A Figment Of Our Own Imagination, And Maybe A Prisoner Of It As Well.

Even Though In Principle We May "know Better", We Routinely Succumb All The Same To The Incessant, Often Frantic And Unexamined Busyness Of Thinking We Have To Get Somewhere Else First Before We Can Rest; Thinking We Need To Get Certain Things Done To Feel We Have Accomplished Something Before We Can Be Happy.

Patience Is A Form Of Wisdom. It Demonstrates That We Understand And Accept The Fact That Sometimes Things Must Unfold In Their Own Time.

It’s Interesting To Look At Your Children As Line-in Zen Masters Who Can Put Their Finger On Places Where You’re Resistant, Or Thinking Narrowly, In Ways Noone Else Can. You Can Either Lose Your Mind And Your Authenticity In The Process Of Reacting To All That Stuff, Or You Can Use It As The Perfect Opportunity To Grow And Nourish Your Children By Attending To What Is Deepest And Best In Them And In Yourself.

Sometimes Shutting Off The Sound On The Television Can Allow You To Actually Watch The Game And Take It In In An Entirely Different And More Direct Way - A First-order, First-person Experience - Rather Than Filtered Through The Mind Of Another.