I love it when the parks department rakes the beach. It reminds me of a Zen garden. Yohaku-no-bi: “The beauty of blank space.” I read that Zen gardens are meant for contemplation rather than meditation. Intentional thought rather than quieting the mind. What could be a better topic of contemplation than the beauty of blank space?
I have given much of my life to sitting before a blank canvas contemplating possibilities. Raking the sand in my garden.
Today Dwight flies to Portugal where he will embark on a pilgrimage. I love what he wrote as he prepared for his adventure: “…what audacious thing might occur to me when I let my mind get quiet?” Embracing the opportunity and the unknown!”
I flipped his words for contemplation: When I let my mind get quiet what audacious thing might occur to me?” Following a sentiment attributed to Aristotle, if “nature abhors a vacuum”, then a quiet mind is an invitation to the audacious.
A blank canvas. A quiet mind. An audacious thing. An embrace of the unknown opportunity. Beauty.
I didn’t intend it but I just wrote a haiku, a send off for Dwight using his own words:
An audacious thing:
An embrace of the unknown.
Opportunity.
Walk in quiet beauty, my friend.
read Kerri’s blogpost about THE BEACH
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The Direction of Intention 