My brother sent me this video and I found it so enjoyable and inspiring that I wanted to share it with you. It’s long, but if you only have two minutes, see if you can listen to the last two. ‘You can be still even when the world is changing around you.’ Wonderful advice for meditators and everyone about accepting whatever is happening in the moment. But if you have time, give yourself the hour. I did, and I am glad because I found a new source of simple wisdom and compassionate teaching.
And this is why I mention red lights in the title of this post: half way through his talk, Ajahn Brahm talks about traffic jams and stop lights, and how we should treat them as time to relax, how futile it is to try and fight the hold ups. If we know about control and letting go, then this makes absolute sense to us, but do we really use red lights as an opportunity to relax? It’s not something that I have been doing but, having listened to this talk, I plan to start now. Care to join me?
