Comments on: showing up where life blooms http://108zenbooks.com/2010/03/11/showing-up-where-life-blooms/ Sat, 19 May 2012 18:03:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Genju http://108zenbooks.com/2010/03/11/showing-up-where-life-blooms/#comment-428 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:24:29 +0000 http://108zenbooks.com/?p=1818#comment-428 Your amazing teaching has made the rounds on Twitter, Facebook and gosh knows what other social media! Deep bows, Helmut!

It’s such a balance between not looking away and raising eyes to the horizon.

I’m glad to have found you in this dharma sphere, my friend. :-D

]]> By: Helmut http://108zenbooks.com/2010/03/11/showing-up-where-life-blooms/#comment-426 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:45:08 +0000 http://108zenbooks.com/?p=1818#comment-426 Thank you friend, for your nice comment(s).
For me, my yesterday joins the Battle of Hastings and the Persian Kings and all of the past. Just there. The reason that I spend time in my personal past is to see where the help is needed for this present being. Since all of my life is pointing me towards Something, it is profitable to see the past and look for the teaching I missed and try and see how that might apply today.
However, I, as the object of much of my thinking life, need to be very careful how much time I spend on this. My personal nature has a habit of morbid reflection that I need to channel towards meditation, being Present.
A delightful phrase attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt goes something like this:
“Yesterday is history… tomorrow is a mystery… today is a gift, that’s why the call it a present…”

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