Finding the Blue Sky by Joseph Emet

Author:Joseph Emet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-09-16T09:40:17+00:00

Time for Practice

Meditation Theme: Meditation on Resilience

I’m sitting on a hill above the banks of the Saint Lawrence River, watching the oak leaves dancing in the light breeze.

The leaves tug at the branches like the sail tugs at the sailboat, making them bend and bow with the wind.

The branches flex and warp in every direction, then come back again.

Again and again, sometimes for days and nights on end.

Through all this, the tree keeps its stately shape, not because it encounters no challenges, but because every part of it is resilient.

The deer in the mountains go through cold winters where it snows on their fur.

Sometimes there is no food for days and weeks.

No leaves in sight, and grasses are covered with snow.

Pregnancy, birth, and child-rearing are all done in the open, under the rain.

They live and thrive, not because there are no trials and difficulties in the wild, but because they are resilient.

Resilience is built into nature. We all have it.

In difficult times remember this, and reach for that resource that is within you.

Resilience bends, but springs back again and again—it is flexible.

The deer do not fight with the seasons—they adapt to them.

The oak leaves do not fight the wind—they dance to it.

Visualize the deer in the mountains, on a cold night without food.

They have needs, but not expectations. They accept what comes.

They watch as night turns to day, and winter turns to spring.

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