For ten thousand years and more people have lived in London, just trying to make a go of it The Abbot and his wife and I and mine went to the London Museum and saw the evidence of it. It’s like a bridge, walking into the past
The museum itself was crowded with what felt like 10000 people, all looking at the remains, the evidence of the 10000 years. Baby’s crying, mothers yelling, people amazed at first this stone ax and that period costume. Wow, look at the London fire of 1682, just right after the Black Plague. Where’s the rest room?
Weren’t they all, aren’t we all just trying to find a little peace of mind, a little happiness, moment by moment, century by century? Maybe the kindest thing I can do is remember my own peace of mind, my own little piece of joy, and bring it here, now, to London, for a moment. Share it with whoever and whatever is appearing here with me. I don’t need to add to the 10,000 years of anxious grasping after more life. I can simply be the life.
After the Museum, we walked over the Millennium Bridge, with 10,000 others, and marveled at the skyline, marveled at the Thames, just rolling on, and on, and on . . .
Londoners– we can all take a little breather. We’ve arrived– after 10,000 years. We’ve arrived. Aint it all so grand?
Question of the Week
For the past 20 or 30 years or so, a number of us have been meeting on a weekly basis to discuss topics of “Buddhist Methodist” import. Ten years or so ago (unlike most Methodists and a majority of Buddhists, our archives and record keeping are kept more spontaneously than rigorously) we started sending out a “question of the week” prior to our meeting in order to kick off our
discussion. Most of us, find the “discussion starters” to be quite useful, though a few find such a format restrictive. Nevertheless, recently, it was suggested I start posting these questions of the week here on our website., for the growing number of “non-locals” who find this site useful, or at least interesting. I’ll add more questions– both new and from the archives, as time and inclination allow.4/22/18 Question of the Week: Big I and Little I, Ram Dass , Don Juan and Joel Goldsmith
