The average lifespan of a harmless house spider is
two to three years.
In a way,
every time you save a spider you add
this amount of time to your life account and
maintain an ecological balance in your house.
Can’t slip money into his nap sack without waking him up. (He sleeps in a comfy chair in the library, holding a piece of string tied to his posessions).
Can’t know yourself and see yourself at the same time.
Fish on a line
of a rod
of a man by the canal.
So
how do you see things?
One of the best ways to relax is to become aware of small tensions and releasing them completely. Learning to release small tensions is harder, in my experience, than releasing large tensions. The trick is to make sure you are releasing the smallest noticeable tensions completely.
Here’s a fabulous idea… a cheap and reliable piece of mindfulness “equipment” that one can buy. Maybe money can’t by happiness (?) but it can buy mindfulness!
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Can we please take our seats and get this presentation underway. Thank you.
Unfortunately the projection equipment broke yesterday during our annual priority setting meeting. The priority setting meeting has been postponed indefinitely. But rather than wait for the audio-visual equipment to be repaired, I agreed to go ahead with this presentation. Please use your imaginations to create your own pictures to go with the slides that follow.
Would somebody be so kind as to turn out the lights. Thanks.
Slide 1:
This is a picture of my old car. It is quite rusty, as you can see.
Slide 2:
This is my brand new car. Apart from the hood and the tailgate, which are made of metal, it will never rust because the body is made of plastic.
Slide 3:
Here you see my new plastic car parked in the parking lot, next to a wall and under that tree. I like to keep it in the shade in the summer, otherwise the black interior gets very hot. Here comes the Zen Parking Lot Attendant.
Slide 4:
I am greeting the Zen Parking Lot Attendant and showing him my new car made of plastic. I say “…and it won’t rust.”
Slide 5:
This slide shows one word floating from the Zen Parking Lot Attendant to me. “Patience.”
Slide 6:
In conclusion, this is a picture of my car now, many years after the picture in slide 4 was taken. As you can see, the tailgate is quite rusty around the trim. Zen Parking Lot Attendant is waiting.
Patience.
In a moment of Tai Chi mind, seeking the truth about the “truth, a statistician reflected on the very common practice of using statistics to “prove” something is true. This is the metaphor:
Let hammer = statistics
Let marble = data
Let marble sculpture = truth
Then,
“You can pound a piece of plastic from now until infinity, but it will never become a marble sculpture.”
According to Mr. C Jung
the asking and
the answering
happen together,
at the very same moment
also
too
and as well
joke and laugh
Stimulus-process-response.
practical mindful 