Gettin' In Tune
I think I've finally found my sole musical talent. I make a great counter-weight to piano movers.
While Husband has been tuning an average of 15 pianos a week, I get to lend some muscle as the extra hands on the job. Turns out a woman who can hold up her end of a piano and can be ready to go anywhere in the Guild Region in fifteen minutes is pretty rare.
There is nothing wrong with being happy to do honest labor. Thank God we have work to do, as Uncle Jacques used to say. Or, 'being a mom means you get shit done', as Mom said.
I has a sad.
I was going to write about it.
Instead, I wrote about being the silent partner to the silent mover of a musical instrument....and about the best part of yesterday's Ecstatic Dance, this little invocation-prayer that moved me (actually) to tears, only it came out as joy and sweat:
"I have heard:
A king went into his garden and found wilted and dying trees, shrubs, and flowers. The oak said it was dying because it could not be tall like the pine. Turning to the pine, he found it drooping because it was unable to bear grapes like the vine. And the vine was dying because it could not blossom like the rose.
Then he found one plant, hearts-ease, blooming and as fresh as ever. Upon inquiry, re received this reply: "I took it for granted that when you planted me you wanted hearts-ease. If you had desired an oak, a vine or rose, you would have planted them. So I thought, since I can be nothing but what I am, I shall try to be that to the best of my ability."
You are here because this existance needs you as you are! Otherwise somebody else would have been here. You are fulfilling something very essential, something very fundamental, as you are.
Why should you become a Buddha? If God had wanted another Buddha he could have produced as many Buddhas as he wanted. He produced only one Buddha, and that was enough. Since then he has not produced another Buddha, or another Christ. He has created You instead. Just think of the respect the universe has given to you! You have been chosen - not Buddha, not Christ, not Krishna.
Their work is done, they have contributed their fragrance to existence. Now you are here to contribute your fragrance.
Just look at yourself. You can only be yourself... there is no possibility that you can be anybody else. You can enjoy it and bloom, or you can wither away if you condemn it.
- OSHO
"Take it Easy, Vol. 2 pp. 101-103
A king went into his garden and found wilted and dying trees, shrubs, and flowers. The oak said it was dying because it could not be tall like the pine. Turning to the pine, he found it drooping because it was unable to bear grapes like the vine. And the vine was dying because it could not blossom like the rose.
Then he found one plant, hearts-ease, blooming and as fresh as ever. Upon inquiry, re received this reply: "I took it for granted that when you planted me you wanted hearts-ease. If you had desired an oak, a vine or rose, you would have planted them. So I thought, since I can be nothing but what I am, I shall try to be that to the best of my ability."
You are here because this existance needs you as you are! Otherwise somebody else would have been here. You are fulfilling something very essential, something very fundamental, as you are.
Why should you become a Buddha? If God had wanted another Buddha he could have produced as many Buddhas as he wanted. He produced only one Buddha, and that was enough. Since then he has not produced another Buddha, or another Christ. He has created You instead. Just think of the respect the universe has given to you! You have been chosen - not Buddha, not Christ, not Krishna.
Their work is done, they have contributed their fragrance to existence. Now you are here to contribute your fragrance.
Just look at yourself. You can only be yourself... there is no possibility that you can be anybody else. You can enjoy it and bloom, or you can wither away if you condemn it.
- OSHO
"Take it Easy, Vol. 2 pp. 101-103
Happy Mother's Day, just in case I miss you all.
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3 comments:
i love your stuff....you're just cute as a button....
Ah, I love you.
Wow, surprise love. Hai guise.
Liz, I love you too, fellow Kandy-Raver-Heart.
ZT, you so crazy.
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