Thoughts about mindfulness, mortality and how we deal with it. There may be some funeral thoughts, including practical ideas from my own experience of many funerals, but there are other 'good funeral guides.' I want to offer branch lines rather than the express route from midwife to funeral director. I want this to be about mindfulness, life and mortality, not about dying. But...
Monday, 6 May 2013
The Balance - a feather does it
If you watch this- and I hope you do, it is so eleoquent- do watch it right to the end.
Isn't it just, Charles. She's performing at the international circus arts awards or some such. Circus skill? OK, but rather more than that, I think. Meditation made visible?
Yes Vale, me too, hence my suggestion that people stay till the end - a truly perfect balance. I'm taken over by her total absorption in the task; she shows not a flicker when people applaud, as they do with increasing delight and surprise, and by the deliberate nature of her movements. She is "in the flow," it's zen made visible, I think. Total identity with the present moment.
That's astounding, GM.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it just, Charles. She's performing at the international circus arts awards or some such. Circus skill? OK, but rather more than that, I think. Meditation made visible?
ReplyDeleteI love the ending where she takes the feather away. Beautiful illustration of the power of the small.
ReplyDeleteYes Vale, me too, hence my suggestion that people stay till the end - a truly perfect balance. I'm taken over by her total absorption in the task; she shows not a flicker when people applaud, as they do with increasing delight and surprise, and by the deliberate nature of her movements. She is "in the flow," it's zen made visible, I think. Total identity with the present moment.
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