Inexhaustable

I love this practice.  It nourishes me, challenges me and keeps sending me back to my center.  I am immensely grateful for the many circumstances that have lead me to this point in my life.  What is standing out to me today, are the boundless opportunities my life is presenting me with these days, in which I can be of service.

This fall is the busiest I have seen in many years.  Work, family, coaching, training and teaching Aikido, the Amherstburg Zen Meditation Group and the Toledo Zen Center.  Inside each of these environments there are demands on time, attention and emotional energy.  In the past, I have been ground down by less.

In addition to an incredibly supportive wife, I am finding great comfort and stability in the support that my practice gives me.  Rooted in sitting and the bodhisattva path,  I am not exhausted by this life.  It feeds me.  Present in each moment as a practice (no different in essence than sesshin) I am at home in the world as it is, seeking to help.  In the terms of my Christian faith, I feel God's hand supporting me.  In the silence I hear His voice.

Though dinner is on the table, one child doing homework, the other practicing piano, and the impending need to leave for class, there is a stillness that is perceiveable.  I do not have a name for it, but I can feel it on me like my own skin.  It flows through me like blood.

This is how I feel today.  May I engage this life fully.