Breakfast, Flowers: Wonderful Presence! Beautiful Presence! YOU.

(w/concluding poetic stanza on “YOU”)

Feb 27, 2005

Saying For Today: Can you be here, now, without it having to be on to somewhere else?

Thich Nhat Hanh tells, in Peace is Every Step, of asking some children, “What is the purpose of eating breakfast?” One little boy replied, “To get energy for the day.” Another child answered, “The purpose of eating breakfast is to eat breakfast?”

Hanh tells of being asked by an artist, “What is the way to look at a flower so that I can make the most of it for my art?” Hanh replied, “If you look at it in that way, you cannot be in touch with the flower. Abandon all your projects so you can be with the flower with no intention of exploiting it or getting something from it.”

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