Hello my dear readers!
Well, it's been a really, really long time since I've blogged. I used to do it every day. I used to do MANY things every day! And now I don't. I'm starting to really miss those things I used to do every day, and now don't, and it got me to thinking.
I was thinking about how knowing, and doing, the things I normally do keeps my life simple, and keeps me sane, because I KNOW what to do. I've gotten away from that, with an increasingly busy life. The thing is, my life isn't so busy that I can't fit things in. It is because I am not doing the things I would normally do every day that my life is so busy. That may not make much sense, but those things gave my life a structure of sorts. I need my structure back. With the structure, I knew where to fit in anything else that might come along. Blogging now, even at 11:15 p.m., is my cry for a little bit of structure. So help me out, here. Send me some good energy and prayers, and with your support I'll regain my structure and you can regularly read my blog. Deal?
When I was thinking this afternoon about writing my blog again, I was wondering what I would "talk" about. I used to read in one of my books, "Daily Wisdom: 365 Buddhist Inspirations," edited by Josh Bartok, and write my feelings and experiences with the topic, along with stuff about my daily life. It is an awesome book that I used to read every day. (Yeah, one of those things I used to do every day when my day had structure.) I closed my eyes and opened it up to this wonderful (no surprise there) quote from "Polishing the Diamond" by Jae Woong Kim.
People who enlighten me are all my buddhas. Instead of trying to find buddhas in high and precious places, shouldn't you be able to find your buddhas in your town, in your marketplaces, and in your streets? Everyone has valuable and enlightening qualities. If you learned and practiced those qualities, it would be like meeting the Buddha and practicing his teachings.
Wow. I love being reminded to be a better person and a little less judgmental of others, Everyone has something to contribute and some valuable quality(ies). This is something many of us could be reminded of, particularly in these economic and highly political times with so many people being so unhappy and blaming others left and right. What happened to the idea of respecting other people and their opinions, even if someone else's opinion isn't the same as yours? Does that mean someone else doesn't even deserve to live? People all around the world seem to have become so hateful and so prideful (in a negative way). That will never, EVER help! But that is the obvious example. The quote can apply just as easily to the more subtle thoughts and behaviors.
I used to think more often of treating each person, each being, I meet as if that person or being were the Buddha himself in disguise, much like some Christians are told to treat everyone as if that person were Jesus. Which is not to say, of course, that I have become mean or inhospitable in any way. I guess I'm just a little less mindful of my deep, spiritual beliefs during day-to-day interactions. I also have long held the belief that each person is put into my life for a reason, usually to teach me something about myself. Well, I can tell you that the second I forget that is the second a real teacher is put before me!
All this being said, and realized even more by the process of writing it, I am hereby renewing my structure and my best ways of moving and being in my world.
It's time for bed now. I have to get ready to meet some more buddhas!
Many hugs and best wishes,
Jun-ri
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