A Mind Like a Clear Pool

I think it would be fair to say that I have been struggling with keeping any kind of meditation practice over the past year or so.  Between a fraught post-graduate course, or dealing with being on my own in the house all day every day as I hunt for an apprenticeship, it has been a year of extremes.  One source of moments of sanity of my day though is the tweets supplied by @tricyclemag.  They range from snippets of quotes, through thought provoking questions, to links to brilliant essays.  What caught my attention today was one of the latter.

Mind Like a Clear Pool is a succinct reminder not only of the importance of practice, but of the stages, the purpose behind and the eminently sensible study/experiment/learn approach. I'm not sure what it is about the article which has so thoroughly caught my attention but something in it has.  Either way I think I need to dust my cushion off again, stop using knitting/spinning as my only meditation, and buckle down to some serious work on taming my mind...