I love this paragraph - Work practice is also a reminder: our work as students doesn’t begin and end on the cushion. Everything we do is practice. The doing of the work is actualizing practice as our lives. What’s more urgent than doing what has to be done, right now? What’s the thread running through our lives? What else is there to living, aside from whatever it is we’re actually doing? - As a parent, a mother, there is lot of unseen work which is most urgent and present. A lifelong thread one could say. It’s often seen at odds with the spiritual life, but I feel it is at the heart of presence, compassion and practice.
Absolutely! Not at odds at all-that unseen work is exactly our life. No division between ‘spiritual’ and everything else. Thanks for the lovely comment, and thanks for subscribing, and reading.
I love this paragraph - Work practice is also a reminder: our work as students doesn’t begin and end on the cushion. Everything we do is practice. The doing of the work is actualizing practice as our lives. What’s more urgent than doing what has to be done, right now? What’s the thread running through our lives? What else is there to living, aside from whatever it is we’re actually doing? - As a parent, a mother, there is lot of unseen work which is most urgent and present. A lifelong thread one could say. It’s often seen at odds with the spiritual life, but I feel it is at the heart of presence, compassion and practice.
Absolutely! Not at odds at all-that unseen work is exactly our life. No division between ‘spiritual’ and everything else. Thanks for the lovely comment, and thanks for subscribing, and reading.