forceOfHabit
Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read

I don’t mean to detract from the beauty and insightfulness of your work. The following comment is nothing more than the trite observation that shining a light also entails creating a shadow:

A mindfulness practitioner walked into a bar. He had a microscope, a telescope, and two good eyes. Much of this sutra focuses its light on the microscope.

“You and the Universe unfold together. There’s as much going on inside you as there is out there, and it’s all worth a look.”

Exactly. A microscope is a wonderful tool and its judicious use can produce an abundance of astonishing insight. But it is just one way of looking at yourself and the world.

“When you perceive that life unfolds like a fabric of interconnected decisions to make, you’re there.”

Yes you are. But attaching to this perspective is also potentially exhausting. By all means, sometimes use your mindfulness microscope to consciously choose whether to walk left or right of the parking meter. But sometimes, having earlier used your telescope, you can let the path to your next destination make the microscopic choice, and let your two good eyes mindfully savour other aspects of the present moment.

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