{"id":2950,"date":"2013-02-18T10:46:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T17:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2013-02-18T13:15:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T20:15:02","slug":"the-daffodills-whisper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=2950","title":{"rendered":"The Daffodills’ Whisper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"daf\"<\/a>Surprise!\u00a0 Its SPRING!!\u00a0 Well, the daffodils that sprung up overnight in my backyard think so.\u00a0 Its funny how such a simple thing can put a smile on your face.\u00a0 At once my eyes grew wide and wonderful memories flooded my mind.\u00a0 Because of course our meaning making machines like to attach a story to even the most basic of Life’s expressions.<\/p>\n

There is truly something to be mindful about the old adage “Stop and smell the roses”.\u00a0 Especially now in our much-a-do-about-nothing technology overloaded lives.\u00a0 There is a purpose and instruction when we pause and notice where we are.\u00a0 In fact THAT we ARE … this present moment.\u00a0 A simple breath, the beauty of a bloom, a boot print in the soft earth.\u00a0 When we stop and smile at everyTHING that is before our “I”, the mental noise of the story of “me” fades into the alcoves of our peripheral soap opera.\u00a0 THIS, and only THIS becomes REAL.<\/p>\n

\"photochopped<\/a>My boyfriend and I were having a “conversation” yesterday as we sat by the small water garden.\u00a0 We are both adept at he-said\/she-said and every now and Zen we find ourselves able to spin a story well beyond any useful purpose.\u00a0 The “conversation” was as long as it was weary and then out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a very tiny tit.\u00a0 She was holding on to a long read that was growing out of the water.\u00a0 I pointed it out to my partner and we both just watched the tiny creature as she contemplated how she could safely get a small drink of water from the cascading spillways.\u00a0 Indeed it was enough of a shift from “reality” to REAL that when we did come back to our “conversation” we were able to find a path whereby we could walk together until we were out in a clearing.<\/p>\n

\"daffs1\"<\/a>The mind is like a labyrinth, so easy to get lost in its twisted turn-backs.\u00a0 We often find our self roaming aimlessly around old memories or projected futures that have no business in our planning.\u00a0 And while we are looking DOWN at the well worn path beneath our feet, it is hard to remember that there is an endless sky above our head.\u00a0 Indeed tomorrow nor yesterday hold the key to our heart, it is only NOW that we can ever experience the bliss of happiness.\u00a0 And THAT is the message whispered from the yellow center of the daffodil this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surprise!\u00a0 Its SPRING!!\u00a0 Well, the daffodils that sprung up overnight in my backyard think so.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dharma","category-satori"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}