Today is Tibetan New Year. I'll be heading out to the Tergar Centre to celebrate. But this morning I think of what I want for myself and for others this year.
Peace. That profound thriving peace that I feel in the centre of my brain when I've been working steadily at my mediation practice. That palpable magnetic energy that is always available to me when I need it. That thing that I still use too rarely in my life.
All people have this. Few people are aware of it. In my current practice it is called Buddah Nature.
This is what I want for myself and everyone.
One of the ways I'm going to stay close to this over the next month, the first month of this year of The Horse, is to re acquaint myself with Lent. My old Catholic practice of renunciation before re-birth.
Television. That's what's going for the next forty days. Television.
No more courtroom dramas. No more Girls. No more Netflix.
Just for this month my greatest entertainment is going to be this peace. Maybe some reading. But this peace. This peace, if entered into playfully, can be a profound source of entertainment. The human body,and psyche is an endless roller coaster. Like a video game with blocks and challenges that once met and dissolved bring you to the next level.
No sugar. No television. Just peace.
Though it might not seem like one, this is another adventure.
