Meditation for Thursday 10th October 2024
In Michael McGirr’s book, “Ideas to Save Your Life, Philosophy for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure” there are numerous anecdotes many of which are humorous including this one…
A café offers nine types of coffee.
Make that twenty-seven if you consider each type was available in three sizes.
One hundred and thirty five if you factor in the availability of five types of milk.
Two hundred and seventy when you had to choose between takeaways and sitting down.*
This story illustrates that too much choice can undermine our freedom which is found in simplicity of living and it’s this simplicity that nourishes our health and well-being.
Meditation is important towards achieving simplicity.
Meditation makes us more grateful and gives us the perspective to not get caught up in the complexity of choice. Each time we practice meditation it offers us a simple way to re-create ourselves and indeed when combined with mindfulness it offers a great way to aid our spiritual and physical well-being.
Here are the lyrics from a Tony Bennett song……
Some find it pleasant dining on pheasant
Those things roll off my knife
Just serve me tomatoes and mashed potatoes
Give me the simple life.**
In simplicity let us meditate in the way in which we are accustomed……
Meditation
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- Lyrics by Harry Ruby, 1945.