This moment of our lives
Go slow.
You've heard that here before,
you'll probably hear it again,
and for now:
go slow.
It's good Friday.
It's hot.
It's Friday.
People are dying, right now,
people are being born,
this is the moment of this moment of our life.
I just gave a "lesson,"
in the Anat Baniel Method.
I was
"tired"
and hence forced to go slower than usual,
and guess what:
going slow I could notice even more than
I usually do
(which most would say is a lot)
and noticing more,
and using an even lighter touch than usual
and smaller movements,
and letting myself find the laziest easiest way
to come up with the next improved movement,
the lesson went
extremely well.
And what about Good Friday.
There is a death story.
Go slow about what we are supposed to think
about a death story,
even though tradition
and habit
and culture all say:
think and feel X about this,
go slow.
Just breathe.
You are alive.
Slow down enough to savor that.
From that think about the death that comes
before resurrection,
or not.
Mull over Katie's third question:
Who and how are you when you attach to and believe the thought
and
the resurrection question:
who and how are you when you don't have the thought, or don't believe it?
Go slow with even these thoughts.
Take a walk.
Read a book you love.
Take a nap.
Go slow.
This is the moment of your life to be at one
with this
moment of your life.
Good,
April 22, Friday, 2011.
Labels: Anat Baniel Method, discovery, Jesus, less effort, less hurry, lessons, love what is, resurrection, slowing down, the work of Byron Katie
