Day 4

I was struggling with a question during my sit today.  I needed to decide between the easy choice that I could think of many ideas to support, and the choice that would be a struggle to follow through with but which I felt deeply I should do.  I prayed for help with it during my sit. As soon as I had uttered the prayer, I felt inwardly that what I'd been feeling in my gut (choice number two) was the right one, and that I should simply follow that course.

The sun seemed to present itself as a tool for remembering this simple advice.  Its location was just visible beyond the leaves today, but not in the least overbearing, so that as I walked to and from my sit I sometimes had to glance around at the treetops before I spotted it.  But once I saw it, there was no question as to whether I'd found it: there is only one sun. 

And like the sun, the truth about ourselves can evade us, but if we are willing to look at ourselves in an honest way, open to whatever the truth ends up being, it will become visible to us so surely that the right course will be plain to see.  

Of course the next, and often harder step, is gathering (or praying for) the strength to follow through with what we know we need to do.


Here is a photo of the place I was looking yesterday, when the feeling of the healed planet came to me: