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Sometimes we can get into a habit that becomes routine and we might feel let down by ourselves if we cannot fulfil the daily routine and stress if we are behind schedule and like the image above have a mind to catch up or go faster and life can be a treadmill like the Hamster in the treadmill in the cage. Like if we miss a prayer will we punished for forgetting and also just mindlessly babbling off the prayer as an automatic habit as insurance against misfortune.
Then again if we look at reality which we went into in past articles, there is no thing as reality in a way, they maybe just mind programmes which by rote and by incessant intent we may then brain wash ourselves as this is a dominant habit that this is reality. So maybe breaks in the routine which also become a habit. In this difficult path to freedom, because our daily routines may become boring and stale is it possible to be free of routine and yet be in a natural routine? Our bodies need feeding and they are in routine however they are in sync with nature which one might say is cyclic and routine and yet this is done without effort on our will in a way. Our hair grows, our finger and toe nails grow, mostly our cuts and wounds heal seemingly in silence and without our interference, perhaps with an adhesive plaster or soothing ointment.
Many people have shared with me that they feel breathing and heartbeat and pulse are seemingly automatic, I have the experiences of 'being breathed' as if my breath and pulse are being 'pumped into me' as is I were a pipe an something was doing it to and for me, true I can regulate the breath and heartbeat by intent but not the intake and outbreath, try holding your breath, something then kicks in and you breathe. Life is the giver of breath and pulse. A monk in his/her hut on a mountain side gathers in wood for winter, the leaves fall, the birds go away, Spring and the buds begin to bloom, the birds return and the nun and monk come to the door and say 'all this and I didn't do a thing to make it happen'. The seasons are there for us, the Moon and Sun go about their daily routines so to speak, are they conscious of their cycles, is Mother Earth and her companions the beings of nature are they aware of their cycles and do they not quietly go about their cycles. So can we do our daily chores with an eye on the fact we are living and breathing with Life and the Universe and trust the silent process within us and do our routines with less stress even if we miss a session or two and realise Life wants to Live and express Itself whether we participate or not.
Trust in Life and Live Life as Life would have it, the mysterious ways of Life and it is the mystery that beckons us on, otherwise we lead a life of stress and despair.
SHACK aka GEOFF
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