March 2025 Week 2

Embrace and Enjoy!!!! Wow what a perfect intention for my cross country journey. We have certainly had so much to embrace and enjoy, and I also mean the struggles we have encountered. Today the homily in church focused on the fear in the dark cloud. We all have reference for this and we have had moments along this journey for sure, but I truly feel like my husband and I leaned into our faith and trust and have grown separately and together along our path of 3 weeks. I am grateful for my dedication to all of you and my spiritual practices to help me handle the ups and downs along the ride!

This past week in class from Santa Fe I discussed Sutra - 1.18 Liberation is achieved when practice has rendered the mind free from distraction.

This state is attained only through supreme detachment. It cannot be achieved when object is the basis of concentration. Cessation of fluctuations of the mind is brought about from para-vairāgya which is free from material cognition. Its practice makes the mind independent of any object. This supreme detachment may be something for higher spiritual beings, but I do believe that with practice and repetition we mortals can find some relief from the mind chatter and maybe even some clear thinking, rational solutions and embracing whatever is in our path.
I also read this in class:
Meditation for the Day
Simplicity is the keynote of a good life. Choose the simple things always. Life can become complicated if you let it be so. You can be swamped by difficulties if you let them take up too much of your time. Every difficulty can be either solved or ignored and some thing better substituted for it. Love the humble things of life. Reverence the simple things. Your standard must never be the world's standard of wealth and power.
Prayer for the Day
I pray that I may love the simple things of life. I pray that I may keep my life uncomplicated and free.

This week lets continue to practice, practice, practice and keep life simple and Embrace and Enjoy!!!!