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When has your imagination been the most vivid?

Posted on Apr 11th, 2008 by Mo : Free Spirit Mo
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for April 11, 2008:

When I've given myself permission to let go of all those crazy restraints... logic, rules, ego, identity.  (Judgment!! )  When I've embraced curiosity.  When I've just followed my imagination on its own journey, asking it, "tell me more".   

I don't think there's ever been a time my imagination has been "unfettered and wild".  It's an uncovering process for me... what's at my core, if I let everything go?   And when I do, I always discover the wisdom of a sage wrapped in the playfulness of a child.   My goal is to live from this place every day.
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Rain

Posted on Apr 11th, 2008 by Mo : Free Spirit Mo
Spring rain outside my window. 

A nap day.  Gray, sleepy, heavy.  The scent of damp earth.  Just enough chill to the air to make snuggling under a blanket seem even more delicious. 

Calling me inward and outward simultaneously.

Genmaicha tea goes with rainy days, I think.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. 
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What was the last thing you learned from a child?

Posted on Jan 17th, 2008 by Mo : Free Spirit Mo
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 17, 2008:

Zen mind.  :-)
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I haven't disappeared!

Posted on Jan 18th, 2007 by Mo : Free Spirit Mo
Hello to all my Zaadz friends!

I wanted to post a quick blog entry to let you all know I may not be around so much over the next couple days.  I want to send a few private replies/messages to a few people... but haven't managed to do so yet... thank you for your kind messages, and I haven't forgotten you!  

I'm preparing for my exam which is this coming  Sunday, doing a lot of studying.   After that is finished, I will be here more often and will reply to any messages.   Thanks for your patience  :-)

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Just as it is.

Posted on Jan 16th, 2007 by Mo : Free Spirit Mo
This is a time of intense change for me, some of it quite frightening,  in just about every area of my life.  I think yoga does that, or at least it wakes us up enough energetically to start some external balls rolling as a byproduct.

We don't always like this change, do we?   It's one thing to feel physically stronger and more alert.   It's quite another when our cozy little lives (good OR bad, they are still cozy) are shaken up.   No, we want control over our change, thankyouverymuch.  

I'm reminded of a teaching that I tend to associate with Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, though it may have originated elsewhere... 

Everything is perfect.  Just as it is. 

I think there is a tendency to morph this into "hindsight is 20/20".  Often I have admitted (and sometimes begrudgingly!),  "well, yes, that horrible ordeal was for the best."    In one sense, I can think of this teaching as applying the hindsight principle, but applying it mindfully and in the moment.   

However, in another sense, it means letting go of that concept completely.   Whether we judge this change to be good or bad is irrelevant.  It just is.   So... does perfection have to be "good"?  What is "good"?  What is "bad"?  Who decides, and when?  Why bother worrying about all of that, anyway?    Can we rest in the inherent perfection of any moment, no matter how we want to judge its content? 

Just think of the spaciousness that could bring to every experience we have.

So... at a time of intense change and challenge... I am trying to understand and act knowing that everything is perfect.  Just as it is.  
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