Part of Today’s Mint Harvest

In yesterday’s posting, Gandhi Thought and Action I mentioned that I was at the T.A.N.A. ( Telugu Association of North America) conference. There I met a man from the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University. We got to talking about living in the here and now. He had a very interesting banking analogy about living in the present. He said that living in the past was like having a cancelled note. It once was good but no longer is. Living in the future was like a promissory note; it might have value in the future. Living in the present was like cash. It is good here and now.

This thought fits well with writings of Thomas Merton, Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus and many others who I admire. To cash in on life we need to live in the now.

Part of the harvest of the garden today was mint. We picked, washed, removed stems and began to dehydrate mint leaves from the garden. We harvested three large bowls of mint and there is much to go.

Fresh mint is good for salads and dried mint is good for salads, cooking and making mint tea. In fact Middle Eastern cooking in my family uses lots of mint and I have been bottling my own brand of mint “Uncle Bob’s Mint” for gifts and home use. Mint is a perennial plant and, like grape leaves, also harvested today, the more you pick it the more it grows. In the now of today we cashed in on mint.

Brahma Kumaris is a movement of spirituality, which cashes in on living in the present. The cash of the present is found by meditation, silence and solitude. Like all spirituality it is a journey within. Like the spirituality of Merton, Gandhi or St. Ignatius self-awareness is found by spiritual exercises like meditation. If someone says, “Show me the money” just tell them to stop, look, listen to the silence of the now within our beings. The cash is in the Now.

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