Daily meditation - 6th June 2023
The world is always fresh and new.
It is only the mind that makes things seem stale and repetitive.
In Awareness, sensations and perceptions are always manifesting and falling away, every moment. It is only the mind which gives static labels to things. I see a tree in my garden swaying in the breeze. My mind labels it “tree” and then proceeds to ignore it.
But if I stay with it, being open to what it has to show me, I see all the individual leaves shining in the sun. I see their vibrant greens contrasted against the pale grey trunk. I see the branches dance in the gentle currents of air.
Always new, never the same. There is nothing boring or stale in the world, only the mind.
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