Thornhill, Ontario
Clicked Away
I clicked away with camera (on my phone) to capture what I’m seeing. Posterity has it’s place when you fall in love with your trails. Mud Creek was my path. The people who are also on the path were glowing as much as the leaves were.
The leaves! Yes, they are on top of you, they are under you and they are all around you because it’s autumn.
The other day I was talking ot one of our congregants, The Leafs, the hockey team. His sons are fans of the players. Whether the team loses the game or not, the boys are faithful.
In Sanskrit the word for faith is called shradha. It means, as our guru put it, “Trust in something sublime”. It would make sense that the power behind the creation, including a hockey team, would be the most sublime entity of all. In fact, I would say there should never be a disconnect between creation and its Creator. That would be the greatest illusion to even think about separating them.
So here I am shooting away, registering great scenery and appreciation of what’s there. This venture repeated itself in the evening. Two monks, Brihat, Hayagriva, and I took to a woodsy trail in a Thornhill forest before conducting a 9 Devotions Workshop. The group we engaged was a Russian community. Very receptive they are, and very responsive. Here again, the folks were aglow, but in devotional practices because the workshop is very much hands on and heart touching.
A quote from Vladimir Borisov, “Some people listen with their stomach, some through their knowledge, and some with their mind. Very few listen with their heart.”
May the Source be with you!
8 KM
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