Our Universe is … beautiful and offers so much we can be grateful for.
We just have to stop and notice.
Autumn is a season for reflection upon restoration of your hardware and software. (okay, so I live in Silicon Valley.)
Haahhh, to be conscious – to feel the energy, not the solar type but the … lunar energy – lunar salutation mixed blend with Mitsu watching in the front yard (who by the way did not start howling at the moon – she’s more of a fox than a wolf.) So powerful to see the light behind the shadows cloaked over the red tinted moon – the shadow is our shadow, our earth blocking the sun’s rays to reflect on the moon …earth’s shadow on the moon – isn’t that just so… awe-inspiring. There’s no need to fear our own shadows – it’s impermanent – let it move in and out until the next … alignment … there’s nothing to fear as there will be another … shift.
I feel restored inside and out now ready for restful evening filled with dreams.
As a side note:
Japanese culture has a tradition of “moon viewing” and as with their culture, there’s always … food associated (as with all cultures probably since it’s kind of a party).
It’s customary to have a full moon viewing in Autumn where sweet cakes such as
“tsukimi dango” may be served.
Japanese moon viewing cakes are … cute:) Usually simple white mochi balls but there are some with golden sweet potato “an” or filling that looks like a “yolk” or a full moon:)
(image from a Japanese sweets shop in Yokohama …http://store.shopping.yahoo.co.jp/gomadaremochi/a4aab7eeb8.html)
credit goes to http://ca-sun.net/ blog
There’s a rabbit association with moon viewing because in the common folklore, family of rabbits supposedly live on the moon, puttering around making mochi… probably a vision seen by a child:) as they have wonderful imagination.
Here’s a bento box for a child … from a mom so into making such cute bento for her kids:
credit to a blog site http://kototkis.exblog.jp/i51/
Free image available at http://www.civillink.net/esozai//img/pics2127.jpg
I love this blog… so pretty that it makes me want to go back to Japan. http://kajiyasan2.exblog.jp/
It’s a walking meditation.
So blessed to have a girlfriend who casually serves a lovely bowl of matcha whenever I barge in. Arigato:)
What a lovely idea to provide this opportunity for any student of life, to get-away, unplug and meditate in order that we can each take a piece of peace and tranquility pervading in this garden… to invite that calm within Self. Outside of the garden, there may be chaos, a turmoil, a storm … but enter this magical space; each of us have that garden within.