This is It

 

“Spiritual practice is just a way of being. It’s an honest way of showing up in life and is not limited to any particular moment.”
~ Adyashanti

This is how I get out of going to church. Or meditating. Or praying, except if I really need something (and cursing at the sky doesn't count). And sometimes the honesty takes the form of being honest about how dishonest you are. How you constantly delude yourself to pacify the niggling little voice of conscience, which you suppress at every turn. How you spin your story to alter perception. Who doesn't do that to some degree?  

That's the beauty of this simple non-practice spiritual practice. You don't have to alter your behavior, just be conscious of it. You'll be the judge of when and what to change or not change. You do you. I'll do me. It's easy. Look, I'm doing it right now.

"Be authentically who you are. No more no less."
~ Andrew



I must have hit a patch of oh-shit-weed when I indulged in my Saturday morning C & C routine. Actually, it should be C & C, B & G. Coffee and cannabis, breakfast and guitar. Why not mix a few of the things I like and cram them in all together? Maybe their interaction will magnify the enjoyment I get out of them versus doing any of them singularly. 

I only engage in this weekly, my own self-administered prescription. Is it working? I dunno, but if it wasn't doing anything, I wouldn't make a practice of doing this once a week rain or shine. Barring a crisis the level of, say, a well water outage, I don't alter my plans on Saturday for nuthin'. Things can get done Saturday afternoon....or Sunday. Or Monday. No rush.

But the oh-shit stuff, well, that's just making me stupider. Although, I could actually feel myself grooving with the guitar, so maybe it's worth it. I suddenly had a moment or two where things were flowing naturally and the positive feedback connection was perfect. From what I was playing, to my ear and then back to my fingers, everything meshed. It grooved. There was this groove, and I was in it.  

It is like riding without training wheels, standing up surfing, ice skating, skiing or anything you might successfully do for the first time. After a bunch of stiff, mechanical attempts of mimicking what you see others do, following instructions but mostly flailing -- BOOM! All of a sudden, you are dancing with the stars. A ballerina doing the perfect twirly thing.

zzzzzzYeah!