The Best Season Of Your Life
Practicing Human
Cory Muscara
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I share a poem by Wu-Men called "Ten Thousand Flowers" about letting go of our clouded mind.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting |
| 0:05.2 | a little better at life. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode we're going to talk about why this |
| 0:12.4 | might be the best season of your life. |
| 0:15.7 | More to come on that in a moment, first let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. |
| 0:30.0 | So I'd like to read a poem for you by Wumann, and the poem is called, Ten Thousand Flowers, |
| 0:47.6 | very short and simple, just to see how it lands for you. |
| 0:53.6 | Ten thousand flowers in the spring, the moon in autumn, the cool breeze in summer, snow |
| 1:03.2 | in winter. |
| 1:05.9 | If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. |
| 1:13.4 | I'll say this one more time since it is a short one. |
| 1:20.4 | Ten thousand flowers in the spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow |
| 1:29.8 | in winter. |
| 1:32.3 | If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. |
| 1:40.5 | So notice how this one lands for you. |
| 1:47.3 | I sometimes have a complicated relationship to teachings like this. |
| 1:51.9 | There's something that resonates deeply and on another level. |
| 1:56.2 | I'm wondering, you know, okay, so what is a mind clouded by unnecessary things? |
| 2:02.0 | Is there's a mind that's thinking about things that could be better, that should be improved, |
| 2:07.2 | that are unjust, and then my mind goes, well, that's kind of important, right, and there |
| 2:13.3 | are times where I want my mind to be clouded by those things that can help make change. |
| 2:19.3 | And I'm not necessarily looking for this to be the best season of my life if there's |
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