Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring
This is one of my favorite clips from one of my one or two dozen favorite movies. It's almost wordless. I carry stones in my heart for times I was careless with the lives of others... important, those stones, I feel.
I imagine it would be a meaningful practice to make a list of all the people who we were hostile/vengeful, careless or unkind to... out of ignorance of what we were really doing. Then taking that list, and meditating deeply on the possible damage those sufferings may have caused in later experiences for that person. All the ways prior carelessness with people enables more danger to them later, like the snake killed by the other animal. This seems like an important thing to remember and carry.
I imagine it would be a meaningful practice to make a list of all the people who we were hostile/vengeful, careless or unkind to... out of ignorance of what we were really doing. Then taking that list, and meditating deeply on the possible damage those sufferings may have caused in later experiences for that person. All the ways prior carelessness with people enables more danger to them later, like the snake killed by the other animal. This seems like an important thing to remember and carry.
posted by Mike Dolan Fliss at
5/31/2008 04:28:00 PM
1 Comments:
Awesome post Mike! That is one of my favorite movies of all time.
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