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I have a friend who always says STAY AWAKE!
Passions fuel a flurry of chaotic, destructive mental activity that in turn stoke the flames of old emotional patterns. If we don’t wake up and open our eyes to the reality (i.e. what it IS instead of what I imagine or fear or hope it to be), we end up racing willy-nilly all over the place like a puppy with no direction, tearing up things with value. Like sacred objects.
Last night I woke up to the sound of crunching. I turned on the light to find Jon Snow chilling with a formerly intact owl wing in his mouth. He usually climbs into bed and cuddles up inside my chest. Tonight, while sleeping, he decided to go foraging through my altar – again – and got that wing.
Yeah, I need to be more vigilant about puppy-proofing the house and take him to training school, but that’s not what this post is about 😉. This is about is noticing the value of disciplining my mind & emotional reactions.
This is a call to exercise vigilance and watch what’s going on inside of me. It’s an invitation to exercise discipline in training my mind and wayward thoughts that just wanna do what they wanna do because they wanna do it. How different my life would have been had I kept my mouth shut more often, or kept my thoughts in line and not followed them like the Pied Piper from hell.
This puppy reminds me: he’s not doing “bad” things because he’s “bad”. It (the puppy & my mind/mouth/behavior) is not about “good” or “bad”. It’s about the need for proper boundaries. It’s a call to execute warrior-like discipline and commitment to training the mind to serve a higher vision. Without that discipline/intention/commitment, things I do that used to be “cute” will wreck the house of my life and everyone that enters it.
#StayAwake
#PuppyWisdom
#YouKnowNothingJonSnow
#NotSoCute
This post was written on Jan. 6, 2017. Jon Snow was about 5 months old.
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