mindful monday : let go of your brain

 "To know objects only through dissecting and cataloging them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth." – John Daido Loori

Sometimes, I believe, we think too much. We categorize and hypothesize and create the next big formula for success, the ten steps to financial freedom, the three rings to independence, the cute saying that will take Twitter by storm. We think too much. We slice and dice, we articulate.

Let's forget, instead. Let's sink into. Let's see without trying to package for others to see. Let's bathe in ineffable. Let's be fully present with the fog on the mountain, not reaching into our pocket for the camera.

Let's.

As Elizabeth Bishop wrote, "What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration."

Be mindful in another way. Touch, smell, see. Really see. Not the seeing that comes with the reductiveness of language: "how will I write about this?," but the seeing that comes without any further need.

Let go of your brain.