Something I want to have is open eyes-- to see the world really, and not to let it pass over my head. John Cowan, whose book "Taking Jesus Seriously: Buddhist Meditation for Christians" I've been reading, talks about delusions-- the ideas we have about things that, in our minds, replace the things themselves.
Tonight as I was walking to a meeting it was snowing lightly. I saw it, said to myself "wow, that's beautiful", and then kept right on walking-- head down against the cold, trying not to slip on the ice, not wanting to be late. I wish that I would have stopped and SEEN the snow for what it was, without automatically categorizing and dismissing it. I think winter is a good time to practice living with open eyes-- stopping, looking, seeing doesn't come as automatically now. It's so much easier to walk with our heads down-- to avoid seeing, and thus to avoid pain, to avoid beauty, to avoid what might, ultimately, be real.
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