Comments on: Are you topping-off your life?

By: Jonathan Fields

Jonathan Fields — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:31:25 +0000

@ Gail – yeah, sometimes answering the old “why exactly am I doing this” question leads to a lot more than we expected!

@ Viola – totally agree, one of the biggest challenges is to try to consistently turn of auto-pilot mode and be present in what we do.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:20:43 +0000

You miss the point. When we find gas cheap, we want to get as much as we can. Next time we buy gas, the price has gone up, and we kick ourselves for not buying more. Myself, I carry extra cans and fill them up too.

By: viola

viola — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:57:38 +0000

Very nicely put !! Of course, we are all ‘conditioned’ by society and we all have the daily ‘battles’ trying our best not to be dominated by ‘patterns’… makes me think about the saying “if we always do what we always done, we will always got what we always gotten” … every day brings a different experience and with awareness we could just be ourselves.

Thanks you.

By: Gail

Gail — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:23:37 +0000

Jonathan,
This is why 8 years ago I quit my job! Didn’t know what I was going to do (besides be a mom, which is a great job and wouldn’t want to trade that role for anything), and those who know me, knew that I was not the kind to do carpool and go out to lunch and shop to fill my extra time! So yoga found me and boy, owning a yoga studio is never a dull moment, every day a different experience, and always an opportunity to do change things up! Thanks for your insight on the gas, I do that all the time, and it so unconscious! Love and light!

By: Jonathan Fields

Jonathan Fields — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:49:13 +0000

Gregor – great story, same principle. Now, the interesting challenge is to take a look at how we spend each day and see how often we do things just because “that’s how it’s always been done.”

Then, it gets really interesting when we turn this same question loose at work…yikers!

By: Gregor

Gregor — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:59:47 +0000

It reminds me of the story about the monks and the cat.
An errant cat once came to a monastry. The monks were kind with animals and they feeded the cat so the cat stayed … but it was disturbing them while they were meditating. So the master ordered to tie the cat at the time of meditation. It became a routine after few months and years and afther the cat died, the monastry got an other cat and tied it to and then also the old monks died and so the life went on through decades and centuries …
A few hudred years later, some scholars wrote large discussions about the importance of the presence a tied cat during the meditation time …