Tuesday, February 2, 2016

February 2, 2016


POTATO  CHIPS 

Too - too - often - potato chips -
slip between our lips without
our tasting any one of them.
We don’t savor the salt flavor
of each chip - the salt that
sticks to our tongue. Too - too -
often our years slip by so quickly
and unconsciously - without our
even tasting the delicious salt on
each decisive and significant moment
of our lives and we toss the empty
bag of time into a plastic trash can
and we grab a fresh bag of chips.
There’s nothing worse than stale
potato chips - dreams that fell to the
floor - which are swept away the
next morning - another day - too -
too - often never savored or tasted.


© Andy Costello, Reflections 2016
I learned this theme about not being
mindful from Thich Nhat Hanh,
the Vietnamese Buddhist  monk.



In the Google search engine, type in "Mindfulness Thich Nhat Hanh" and you'll be able to watch and hear Thich Nhat Hanh teach about mindfulness.

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