Sunday Blog 186 – 25 May 2025
I plucked this quotation from the poem Ten Thousand Flowers in Spring from the podosphere this week. I was listening to something designed to settle me down for the night. But instead, I sat bolt upright and scribbled it down. The quotation landed, whole and perfect like an egg. “One for the Sunday Blog” I said to myself.
In my well-worn theme of remembering and forgetting and remembering, this truth, that our thinking traps us, or as Tara Brach said (it was her podcast after all) we get lost in the trance of thinking. In the same episode she quotes a neuroscientist who says it takes 1.5 minutes – 1.5 minutes! for an emotion to move through our body unless we get to thinking. Thinking can trap emotions in our body for as long as we like. Like a life-time grudge, for example. So we bring the suffering on ourselves by our repetitive thoughts.
I love the idea of the 10,000 Spring flowers, I love the idea of letting the emotions move through and I love the idea getting on with some frolicking.
I hope it inspires a bit of a Sunday frolic for you too.