IT’S TRUE. . .
SOMETIMES OUR MONKEY MIND
MAKES US BELIEVE THAT
I T
IS ALL JUST ONE JUMBLED/TUMBLED UP MESS OF UNLEASHED THOUGHTS
SEEMINGLY UNCAGED AND RUNNING AMOK. . .
B U T
ESPECIALLY WHEN
S O REMEMBER
AND REMEMBER
A LINE IS JUST A LINE
NO MATTER WHERE IT BEGINS AND ENDS
OR HOW JUMBLED UP
IT EVER SEEMS. . .
JUST A MOMENT: YOUR MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE
We all have one,
but we also have something inside of us
that we don’t want to share. . .
WHAT’S YOUR MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE. . . ?
Maybe the question is not so much
What you have or want to share. . .
but truly what needs uncorked in you
and we usually know the answer to that
IN JUST A MOMENT. . .
JUST A MOMENT: FLYING YOUR PRAYER FLAG
FIRST SOME INFORMATION. . .THEN A QUESTION. . .
INFORMATION:
Tibetan meditation flags, also known as Lung Ta or “Wind Horse” flags, are colorful fabric banners inscribed with prayers, mantras, and auspicious symbols. They originated in Tibet and are used to promote peace, harmony, and balance in the environment.
The flags typically feature five colors, each representing an element:
– Blue: sky or space
– White: air or wind
– Red: fire
– Green: water
– Yellow: earth
These colors are believed to balance the energies in the environment and bring harmony to the surroundings. The flags are usually printed with mantras, prayers, and symbols, such as the Wind Horse, which is said to carry prayers to the heavens on the wind.
When hung outdoors, the flags are exposed to the elements, and the wind is believed to carry the prayers and blessings to all sentient beings. Tibetans often hang these flags near monasteries, temples, and mountain passes, and they are an integral part of Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
The purpose of Tibetan meditation flags is multifaceted:
– To bring peace and harmony to the environment
– To promote positive energies and balance
– To send prayers and blessings to all sentient beings
– To connect with the natural world and the elements
Overall, Tibetan meditation flags are a beautiful and meaningful way to cultivate mindfulness, compassion, and positivity in daily life.
Q U E S T I O N:
IF YOU HAD A PERSONAL PRAYER FLAG. . .
WHAT WOULD IT SAY AND
WOULD YOU FLY IT. . . ?
JUST A MOMENT: ARE WE THINGAMAJIGS?
IN JUST A MOMENT or even less than one, we realize there’s so many things that make us up; so many thoughts we think, so many feelings we feel and sometimes when we don’t know how to label them or explain them, it’s like seeing something in our junk drawer or asking for something that maybe no one else knows that we just called a THINGAMAJIG.
Well, we are kind of walking, talking thingamajigs, aren’t we? And sometimes what we can’t label doesn’t seem quite real until that feeling never goes away; and let’s face it, sometimes what we label just by labeling it, gets negated, even US. . .
So, if you wouldn’t mind, pass the THINGAMAJIG that describes what you’re feeling right now. Try to describe it; try to actually feel it for what it is and if you can name it, great if not, lean into it and sit with it, even in silence, just for a while with this THINGAMAJIG thing we call ourselves. . .
JUST A MOMENT: TOGETHER WE GROW
IN JUST A MOMENT
You inherently know that when you bring what you have to what I don’t and then someone comes and shares what none of us have
but now has TOGETHER, amazing things GROW. . .
A HANDFUL OF SEEDS ARE A HANDFUL OF NOTHINGS
UNTIL THEY MEET THE DIRT
THAT INVITES THE WATER
TO GROW. . .
JUST A MOMENT: OUR CONNECTIONS
We all know about connections and how important they are in our world today; in fact, it doesn’t mean or matter anything about social media unless we’re connected and not just to a certain outlet like Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, Snapchat, Instagram or any of the countless others.
No, no we are connected, but maybe not as connected as we’d like to think. We are right now at this very moment more advanced than we’ve ever been in our entire universe, medically, pharmaceutically, scientifically, technologically, and yet, it’s not those things that heal us or that connects us; IT IS OUR RELATIONSHIPS.
Seriously, how connected are you, not just with your family, not just with your friends, but everybody around you? In just a moment you know; in just a moment we also know how much more connected we could be than we think we are. . .
JUST A MOMENT: WE ARE A CONSTRUCTION ZONE
PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST:
It’ doesn’t matter where you live or where you’re going to or where you’ve been; it seems like you can’t go anywhere today without seeing the UNDER CONSTRUCTION sign in all bold capital letters and if it’s not a building or a new establishment, then it’s certainly the roads or the ways that we travel to get to those places that we call HOME.
What about you? is there a sign UNDER CONSTRUCTION that should be at least placed on your lapel or maybe worn around your neck or how about just have printed on your forehead because in one way or the other, it’s true, isn’t it: WE ARE ALL UNDER CONSTRUCTION!
Ww are never finished products. We’re never completed projects. There’s always a little bit of this or a little bit of that that we want to add or update or refurbish. So, what about you? What is it in you that needs refurbishing, that needs updated, that maybe needs dilapidated or demolished and raised up all over again in a brand new way?
If you could choose that, which way would your arrow point? We don’t have to be asked the question or know the answer. . .
IN JUST A MOMENT, right now and quick. . .You know exactly why you’re watching this video and the answers to the questions that have made you wonder about the Construction you are under
JUST A MOMENT: MORE THAN WHAT YOU LOOK AT
The flaw exists in each of us, sometimes more brutal than at other times, but it does exist: WE DON’T ALWAYS RECOGNIZE WHAT WE NOTICE. . . Even if it’s something beautiful; even if it elicits, “Ohhhhhhh’s and Ahhhhhhhhhhhh’s,” from us. There are times we don’t still see the full picture. It’s as if, even though we’re looking at the puzzle, the box in which it came, doesn’t fully let us comprehend how the final piece will complete the picture that’s on the box (because it’s the wrong box picture)
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Maybe that’s when we really see what we recognize and notice with the distinct possibility of sharing, so that others can have the same experience. . .in just a moment
LOOK AGAIN
. . .what you
REALLY SEE
just might surprise you and more,
CHANGE YOU
in just a moment
JUST A MOMENT: THE REALNESS OF FAKE
It really is getting harder and harder every day. In fact, you don’t have to go to a florist or try to seek out the best arrangement. It’s getting more difficult every day to find the difference between what is fake and what is real. I mean seriously, there are some people that are actually planting fake flowers in their gardens so they’ll always be color in their yards 365 days of Year.
How does the fakedness of those flowers make them any more real just because they show up every day in vivid living color? Well, I guess that’s the truest test of all and yes, and we come know it in just a moment literally and so philosophically in every other way.
So. . .is the artificial in you more fake or more real and what are you trying to make it or understand it or show it
IN JUST A MOMENT. . . ?
JUST A MOMENT: WALK THE LINE
We usually have no problems whatsoever walking the line if it happens to be a 4 inch line on the ground, BUT a 1 inch wide tight rope thin line 160 feet above Niagara Falls, well. . .we still have no trouble volunteering to walk that line or riding that line in a wheelbarrow. In fact, I’ll be the first one to VOLUNTEER YOU or SOMEONE ELSE to walk that line and others that might bring me danger, even if it means going from one significant point to another important place one treacherous step at a time.
Can you walk that line?
Or do you volunteer me or somebody else, too?
