I know now why I don't keep a blog or a diary other than when we are on holiday! too many things are happening in my life! In the last 3 weeks: I had my first mammogram -what a worry and what relief when it was done, my little 2cv was burglared and damaged - and mended, just about, with Robin's good help, Patrick and Anna were on holiday, Anna took us out for a meal, I took Patrick out for a meal John Russel came for a couple of days, I went Scottish Dancing for a whole day with Eileen at the Argyle School and I drove Patrick back to Loughborough (in a hired car:)...why does my life feel so turbulent?
The answer might be "enlightenment" or rather lack of it!
Enlightened action leaves no wake. If your action leaves behind it a broad and turbulent wake of disturbance to yourself and other people, then you may be sure that it is unenlightened action. But when a person is gliding through the water with no wake happening at all, when nothing special seems to be going on, he or she may think, "How dull my life is." But it may well be that those are the times when you're doing exactly the right thing, because there is no wake following an enlightened act.
(from Roar of the Tigress, The Oral Teachings of Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett: Western Woman and Zen Master)
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