Thank you for posting! Always a helpful reminder, and wow, what a pretty card.
Thinking about this post made me realize an insight I keep needing to re-learn with my daughter: we'll be playing a game or building a puzzle or something, and I get frustrated that she's doing it "inefficiently", and then (on better days), I remember "oh, right, the goal here is not building the puzzle as quickly as possible, it's having an excuse for her to learn how shapes go together, to problem solve, and to spend time with her dad".
In other words, to generalize, it is often helpful to have a goal/destination, but to recognize that it is not the purpose or what matters about the activity, it is merely the excuse for the activity to take place.
To get back to our metaphor, getting to the mountaintop shrine at the end of the path may not be the point, but the traveler wouldn't have met the people and seen the sights he did (which are the point) if he hadn't said "I think I better head for that shrine on top of the mountain".
Unsurprisingly, this is likely a fine theme for meditation :)
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Date: 2022-01-22 07:30 pm (UTC)Thinking about this post made me realize an insight I keep needing to re-learn with my daughter: we'll be playing a game or building a puzzle or something, and I get frustrated that she's doing it "inefficiently", and then (on better days), I remember "oh, right, the goal here is not building the puzzle as quickly as possible, it's having an excuse for her to learn how shapes go together, to problem solve, and to spend time with her dad".
In other words, to generalize, it is often helpful to have a goal/destination, but to recognize that it is not the purpose or what matters about the activity, it is merely the excuse for the activity to take place.
To get back to our metaphor, getting to the mountaintop shrine at the end of the path may not be the point, but the traveler wouldn't have met the people and seen the sights he did (which are the point) if he hadn't said "I think I better head for that shrine on top of the mountain".
Unsurprisingly, this is likely a fine theme for meditation :)