The Buddha taught that we must learn to love the world without attachment, for all things are transient. Plum blossoms teach the same lesson.
What do you love, knowing you will only have it for a moment?
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As a birder, I love a really good, clear, close up sighting of a specie I don’t see very often, or one that is particularly beautiful, knowing the bird will fly or walk away, or that, in time, I will have to leave and go home.
My world traveling cousin is an avid bird observer and I believe feels the same as you do!
I always say to others when there is a good, form-shaping snowfall that this is the ONLY time we’ll see just what we are seeing right now. The amazing shapes that form on posts, and trees, fences, fields …well, everything …are a delight to me.
Sounds like they could be a form of mindfulness meditation. I wouldn’t know since it rarely snows here, and never enough to form anything.
You’re probably right. Now that I’m retired I can sit inside and watch for a long time. Used to be that I’d stomp around the yard taking photos but not any more, but I still enjoy snowfalls. Mindfulness meditation is possibly present.
I love summer, everything about it. Summer fruit, summer cocktails, summer weather and summer clothes, of which I have too many. Just sitting on my patio in the evening, sharing a laugh with a friend, is bliss for me.
I know it won’t last and there will be a change of seasons, which makes summer all the more precious. I know if I lived in a place where the climate was warn all year round, I would not appreciate summer as much as I do.
Gotta go pick a tank top for tomorrow!