Hayden loves flowers... or I guess Hayden loves to smell flowers. He will stop in the middle of a meal and start sniffing nonstop. He is trying to smell the flowers in the middle of the table and doesn't stop until he actually gets to smell them. He even tries to smell the flowers on my skirts and tops! So sweet! This particular day, Hayden was loving the trumpet vine that grows over our swing. He was so precious standing on his tip toes to get a really good sniff. Flowers are even more exciting now that he was discovered bees. Now when we are walking, he can spot a bee from a mile away and lets everyone know, "Bee, Bee... BEE!"
It reminds me of the flower sermon (not to get all serious but I love this story). The Buddha was about to give a much anticipated sermon and when he was about to walk on stage, he noticed a lotus flower at his feet. He picked it and walked on stage. He held up the flower and said nothing. One man in the crowd smiled with pure joy. This moment was Mahakasyapa's transcendence into Nirvana. There are many interpretations of the Flower Sermon, spirituality comes from direct experience rather than scripture; all things come and go, transient like the flower; the concept of "suchness," things are just as they are; or an enlightened mind (ego-less mind) springs from the egotistic mind just as the lotus flower springs from the mud. When I think of this story I am reminded that life is beautiful and amongst all the mud and muck, there is a lotus flower to be found.
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