Hi,
Her is my first post here, a Holiday wish that I hope is keeping in the
light of the simplicity of it all. Well here it is:
Christmas is such a wonderful time of year. While driving home last
year after celebrating the holiday with family I told my brother that: The
experience of what life is so unmistakable on holidays especially Christmas
that it's hard to imagine that anyone could miss it. Life's fullness and
feeling is so strong and pervasive that it just seems to be oozing out of
oneself. I continued: "One wishes that this richness of life's feeling should
not have to be something just for the holiday. It should be with us all year
round. To that end should be our pursuit!"
But as always with in a week or two of the holiday one is wondering
where that wonderful feeling went to. It's such a climatic experience. You
spend all of December sense just before Thanksgiving escalating to this
incredible and wonderful height of life only to wonder where it went to within
a week or two after its climax on Christmas day. By the day after New Years
one is thinking at least the days are getting longer and one only needs to
survive cabin fever for one, two or three months before spring when the meaning
of the holiday blossoms once again on every tree, shrub, garden and lawn.
Everyone then seems to shake off the winter blues as easily as they do during
the holiday season.
Such a wonder life is to have these extremes yet always found favoring
the life side of it. It would make one want to find what really does continue
in the midst of this contrast. Yet one doesn't seem to get a chance to do
anything about it other then carry on stumbling along between these two
extremes. It makes one feel helpless except for these occasional experiences
of holiday and where ever else one seems to find this height. But there must
be an answer to the posed question: "What then is life's real meaning".
Because it does happen even if with these extremes, it just simply does happen.
Maybe that's it. Maybe just starting with simple will help us find Its
true meaning. So the Holiday wish for you for everyone for everyday of the
year as well as the holiday will be to wish you the simplest state of mind, of
awareness twice a day so to find the true nature of this wonderful Self of life
that is so easily discerned during the holiday season that It can only be
telling us of the true nature of our Cosmic destiny.
H A P P Y H O L I D A Y S
John
