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Upside Down Tomato PlantsAs awareness increases emptiness rises. As we dig deeper we go to the roots. When we listen silence speaks.
The above is a feeble attempt to express some feelings of late. I feel more aware of the moment and easier to focus. Yet at the same time I feel peacefully lonely and silent.
Today in the DMZ Community Garden I worked with some adults and children that I barely new yet I felt at ease and at home with them. They came from diverse backgrounds than myself, racially and culturally, but I was comfortable working with them.
Tonight I was in a theater full of persons of similar age, racial and culture background as myself yet I felt strangely uncomfortable watching the performance with them. Leaving the theater I saw someone I knew. We embraced but I cannot recall the name of the person.
Maybe it was putting together the upside down tomatoes buckets today for my home garden that intensified this feeling that everything was upside down, feeling comfortable with diverse persons and uncomfortable with similar persons.
If all this does not make sense you are starting to understand what I feel, the fullness of emptiness.
Sometimes when we really look at our lives with awareness, everything, like the tomato plants, seems upside down. Often what we busying ourselves with is not what we value while we often ignore what we truly value. Awareness becomes like viewing self from outside of self. It was an upside down day.
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