I hoed the garden today and changed the filter on my frigerator water. Seemingly unrelated activities among the various to dos I did today. A correlation was created by my cortex, or some part of my body/mind/spirit complex. The connection between these activities is they showed me how removing unwanted material in a timely fashion can create clarity and flow.
Removing unwanted material, cultivating, eliminating competition and chatter, tending the garden. Weeds are ruthless in the garden. They are tenacious and demanding. There is never lack of want for weeding. Weeding is best done on hot sunny days to kill the unwanted plants which makes the task even more sticky and grueling. If the weeds have started taking over it can seem like a loosing battle. The desired plants have less ways and means than I do, so I take to the task. When the hoeing is done, the intentional plants shine out. The plants I want to harvest can be seen crystal clear and they look much happier.
The water that comes out of my frigerator was pouring suuuper slow. I had abandoned using it for months. The well water from my tap is just as tasty and much more motivated to fill the glass so that’s what I drank. Then it occurred to me that the old filter may have just become clogged and wasn’t letting much water through, that changing it might help get the flow going again. Today I put a new filter on the water and the water flowed like a fountain into the cup. When the water/thoughts in my brain replay the same old shit, the samskaras, I see how it clogs up my garden with weeds and unwanted material. How staying with the old filters, the things I’ve been taught, told, and adapted as my storytelling can be a hindrance to being quenched by the thoughts waiting for me behind those clogged stories/filters.
I had a conversation with a mentor of mine the other day. She suggested I key in on and get really clear about what unique filter I have in this world. I’m still working on refining my auditory, mental and oral filters. Weeding out the unwanted on all sides of what’s coming in, what gets to hang out, and what I put out. Planting and abiding in the things desired for growth. I waver and like to party so please don’t take this as me being some puritan, just trying to be a better me.
So I think about what I can weed out, change the filter on, or otherwise eliminate from my life, the spaces around me, my mental cabinetry, and on. Where do I want clarity? What’s the junk that surrounds that thing or clogs up the flow to it? When you come up with an answer, drop me a comment.
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