One effect of long-term mindfulness practice is that there are no special moments. There are just moments, each one a miracle. As one year becomes the next, we are socialized to demarcate a boundary that doesn’t exist so we can celebrate its crossing. It’s like writing something already done on your To Do list, just so you can experience the joy of crossing it off.
At this turn of the year, I notice once again the process of which we’re a part. The brook will freeze, holding energy, and new water will rise up over the ice, some slowing enough to be bound to it, some escaping downstream. Warmth and rain will some day come, melting enough to release a chunk of ice that will knock free another, eventually causing an orgasmic maelstrom of chaotic ice-out release. The streambed will be scoured, deadwood and silt will be cleared out, and then all will return to “normal,” feeling at ease, flowing gently. Neither good nor bad, this is what is.
I’m imagining the new year and remembering the old one as neither good nor bad, each year an imaginary container of miraculous moments flowing by, each moment either unnoticed or attached to some meaning we’ve invented. Grateful to be a part of this process and sharing it with you, I commit to continuing a practice of noticing my own awareness, joyously seeing daily miracles, being peace, and doing my part to bring us closer to fine. How about you?
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