Impressionistic paintings are very nice. Everyday impressions, on the other hand are like Koans.
My favorite impression from a few weeks ago was, when my dog ran straight into a parked mountain-bike because he was watching another dog. This was a real exciting live Zen lesson.
This is what we do all the time. Sometimes we are really distracted by looking at things but most of the time it is our thoughts that interfere with the here and now.
Today I walked the dog through Bauernbergpark. At the lower end of Rosseggerstraße there is a junction with a traffic light. When I arrived there, another man was waiting on the other side for the lights to turn green. He almost missed it because he was so concentrated on his mobile phone, writing a message. So my dog is not the only one.
Myself, I keep running into these bikes very often. I have learnt to avoid that but I struggle to keep up the discipline.
There are many impressions on a single day. We keep passing through little moments in other peoples lives, as Pirsig used to say. It makes me feel tired.
I have to meditate.
Good night.
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