Zen or the art of dusting the moon. That is the translation of the German title of Gary Thorpe's book "Sweeping Changes".
After falling in love with the title and after working and meditating through about 60 pages of the book I consider it to be worth to share a shelve with Suzuki's Beginner's Mind and Joko Beck's Everyday Zen.
As everywhere on the rocky road of Zen practice I sometimes feel caught in infinity. Infinite cleaning and rearranging. It is nice.
There is a storm outside. Inside there are just some specks of dust.
Outside there is thunder. In here I can water the flowers.
Far away a bird is singing. In here I put the broom back into the cabin.
The window seems to be dirty, the pollen fleece is torn at the edges. Work in progress.
Around every corner I discover or rediscover things, new things, mostly old things.
I hesitate before I decide on giving them away.
Finally, after some heretic work with the vacuum cleaner, too loud to be true, I have a sip of water and wonder when I will have to leave this tranquility again.
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