hmmmmmmmmm.......: mary mary quite contrary

hmmmmmmmmm.......: mary mary quite contrary

Monday, June 22, 2009

mary mary quite contrary

my garden is doing splendidly, thank you! people complain about the weather and i do sympathize, but holy fuck it has been FANTASTIC garden weather.

two days of rain, a day of hot sun. repeat. for a month. i love it.


nine days ago	today

me: OH! AND! guess what else!

you: WHAT!!?!?*

me: snapdragons and another flower i can't name have also resurfaced from last year, even though they were supposed to be annuals and even though that sometimes happens it's not sposed to happen in containers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you: WOW!!!! that's SO COOL!!!!!*

me: I KNOW RIGHT!!!!!

my right-brain, with all its certainty - "those are NOT weeds, do NOT pull them" - is smug about this victory over the pseudo-rational, neurotic left brain - "but are you sure? but are you sure? but are you sure?"

sun shining. beautiful day.

*i know, i have to supply your side of the dialogue - it's ok

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*The quote in the top bar is from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, whom I tend to view with some suspcion as a person (great teacher or charismatic cult leader? I'm not sure!), but whose teachings I often find useful nonetheless... here is a further elaboration:

The sense of trust is that, when you apply your inquisitiveness, when you look into a situation, you know that you will get a definite response.

If you take steps to accomplish something, that action will have a result--either failure or success. When you shoot your arrow, either it will hit the target or it will miss. Trust is knowing that there will be a message.

When you trust in those messages, the reflections of the phenomenal world, the world begins to seem like a bank, or reservoir, of richness. You feel that you are living in a rich world, one that never runs out of messages....

You trust, not in success, but in reality.... [W]hatever the result that comes from your action, that result is not an end in itself. You can always go beyond the result; it is the seed for a further journey.

And,

Often, when someone tells us we should be fearless, we think they're saying not to worry, that everything is going to be all right. But unconditional fearlessness is simply based on being awake....

[F]earlessness is unconditional because you are neither on the side of success or failure. Success and failure are your journey.