Dharma Glimpse by Katie Bow
I was on the train back from work in London. It had been a long, hard day, well in fact a long hard few weeks. I was desperately trying to get something sorted to meet an urgent deadline by working with my laptop purchased on the pull-down table on the train, but patchy 4G meant that this was proving frustratingly impossible.
I sat there getting more and more frustrated and could feel my body starting to vibrate with stress and anxiety.
In a split moment of resignation, I snapped the laptop shut with a heavy heart and knew I would have to finish the work once I got home.
Aware of my tension, I put on some soothing “zen” music in my headphones to reset and looked up for the first time on the journey. Through the window, the rolling fields and trees of the Cotswolds were trundling past lit by the golden twilight, and in that second…I felt at peace. All that mattered was watching the clouds and the light and the trees, in the ever changing landscape.
I felt a deep feeling of understanding for the first time of the light of Amitabha and the notion that the buddha is always moving towards me.
Namo Amida Bu
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